Pianist Zac Gvi returns this summer with a smart new Thelonious Monk-themed album on the F-IRE label.

Called Monk Spent Youth it features Ben Davis (cello), Fred Thomas (drums, bass, prepared piano) and Gvi on piano, bass clarinet, organ, toy piano. The album was recorded by Alex Bonney at Greenway Studios and Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead, and mixed and mastered by Bonney.  The launch will be on 13 August at the Vortex in London.