Monk's Daughter Boo Boo Singing

I’m in a Monk mood, meticulously. Both his son and daughter became musicians, his son even served as the drummer in his father’s band during his final years as performer. This is the earliest recording of his daughter singing, with Clifford Jordan, who had recorded this song without vocals for the incredible Glass Bead Games (1973). Many of my favorite albums were released in 1973. By 1977, when the above track was recorded, Monk had moved to New Jersey, where he had the second floor of his confident Nica’s home to himself. The privacy was what he needed. His wife Nellie had become an overzealous juicer and had loud machines running all hours to pump out vegetable juices she hoped would heal the community, to the point where even their neighbors in New York began to complain. One day Monk just called Nica and asked her to come pick him up and he never went back home.