Monty - known affectionately as Monty Moonshine by other musicians - was a great player and a great character with a fund of stories. I last played with him at a lunchtime session at the Middelburg Jazz Festival in Holland around 1980 or so and, after the music, we sat around a table in the empty concert hall while he regaled us with story after story. And has us all in stitches.

RIP