Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Performance Fine, recording poor

The music is good. The recording is listenable, but it is not as much fun to listen to because the sound is kind of distant. Often time, the noise of what is going on in the room is almost as loud as the music. It does not have much dimensionality. It is mono without much of a sense of presence. I have lots of live Monk that was professionally recorded. These recordings may very a bit in the quality of the recording, but they all sound better than this set.This set is not bad (despite the paragraph above), but is is more for completests. One thing that is interesting is that you hear the voice of "The Jazz Baroness" on the live recording introducing Thelonious Monk. It is kind of interesting.