Yochk'o Seffer of Hungarian origin has lived in France for many years now. He met Jean-Luc Ponty and Michel Portal at the 'Conservatoire de Paris' at which point he leapt into the world of jazz. He continued however to play with the legendary groups of the 70's, MAGMA, ZAO, and PERCEPTION. Typically, he never limited himself to a single type of expression and may write for a septet of saxophones or he might appear in solo. His classical training and knowledge of contemporary music (from Bela Bartok to Krzystof Penderecki) grant him with great feeling and liberty in jazz. And this is how he's been moving deeper and deeper into Thelonious Monk's music for some time now, which he presented in 1989 in the form of a quartet. He's discovered the same quality in writing as those composers who inspire him, the same rhythmic wealth. And in turn, Seffer and the musicians with him (Siegfried Kessler, François Mechali arid Peter Gritz) recreate Monk's themes, giving them new modern breath bearing traces of the numerous experiences of the saxophonist-composer.