“In Orbit” is an album by jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist Clark Terry featuring Thelonious Monk at the piano. It was Terry’s first album playing flugelhorn and Monk’s only appearance on Riverside Records as a sideman. The record was made over the course of two sessions, the first being on May 7, 1958. The second was five days later.

Clark Terry had begun his musical career playing in clubs around his native St. Louis, Missouri in the early 1940s. He was a veteran of the Charlie Barnet and Count Basie organizations and was playing with Duke Ellington at the time “In Orbit” was recorded. He would later be a member of ensembles led by Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson and was a mainstay in The Tonight Show band from 1962 until the program moved to the west coast in 1972.

Monk had been in the Riverside Records stable of talent for two years prior to the “In Orbit” date, having made six albums for them. The quartet was rounded out with Sam Jones on bass and “Philly Joe” Jones on drums.  The original album included eight tunes, five by Clark Terry and one Monk composition with three songs written by others. A subsequent CD release included one bonus track.

Here is a link to one of the tracks from the album “In Orbit:”

"BUCK'S BUSINESS"