Sphere: The Complete Live at Umbria Jazz - Spectrum Culture

Sphere: The Complete Live at Umbria Jazz - Spectrum Culture

Sphere recorded their first album, 1982’s Four in One, on the day Thelonious Monk died. According to the history books, the quartet—consisting of saxophonist Charlie Rouse and drummer Ben Riley, who have both played with Monk, and pianist Kenny Barron and bassist Buster Williams—had no idea of Monk’s passing while they were in the studio. But this coincidence lent a touch of the mystical to the group, formed to carry on the legacy of that pionee…