 And on February 28, 1959, he and a group of nine other players, ten in all, including Monk, formed the Thelonious Monk Orchestra, playing a date at Town Hall in New York. Among the people in this band, Donald Byrd is on trumpet, Charlie Rouse, Monk's longtime tenor player, is included here, Phil Woods on alto, Pepper Adams on baritone, Art Taylor is the drummer, and from that date, here is Monk's Mood.