“Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles [Davis]: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he’ll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you.” – John Coltrane on Thelonious Monk

This slipmat features the Culpeper Minutemen flag, which was carried by a Virginia militia unit during the early years of the American Revolution. It featuring a coiled rattlesnake and the motto “Liberty or Death,” for the spirit of ordinary citizen soldiers who took up arms in defense of local freedom.