Pat Thomas incontrò la Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra per la prima volta l'anno scorso, appunto a Glasgow, e ne nacque un bell'omaggio a Thelonious Monk ora riportato da Scatter: Celebrating Monk. In programma tra le altre cose c'era un curioso brano contenente frammenti di ogni singola composizione monkiana (Every Thelonious Monk Tune in 10 Minutes), oltre a una speciale dedica a un altro grande, Brian Wilson, a pochi giorni dalla scomparsa. Scrive Raymond MacDonald, sassofonista e fondatore dell'ensemble, proprio a proposito di GOK (cioè God Only Knows): "This piece is a tribute to Brian Wilson, who passed away two weeks before the concert. Not necessarily an obvious choice for inclusion in a jazz festival, however, Brian Wilson’s unique compositional voice and immense influence over generations of musicians gives him a similar status to Thelonious Monk within the musical firmament. My own musical identity was partly forged in the 1980s in the indie pop world of Glasgow where Brian Wilson was, and remains, one of the doyens of the local scene. I devised this piece to commemorate his 60th birthday in 2002."