Thelonious Monk discography

Thelonious Monk discography
Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, NYC, ca. Sept. 1947

The following is a discography of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917–1982).

Discography

Studio albums

Year Title Label Catalog number Date recorded Notes
10-inch LPs
1947–1952: Blue Note years
1951 Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 Blue Note Blue Note LP 5002
1951 Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 Blue Note Blue Note LP 5009
1952–1954: Prestige years
1953 Thelonious Prestige PRLP 142 1952-10-15, -12-18 [1][6]
1954 Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP Prestige PRLP 166 1953-11-13
1954 Thelonious Monk Quintet Prestige PRLP 180 1954-05-11
1954 Thelonious Monk Plays Prestige PRLP 189 1954-09-22
1954 Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk Prestige PRLP 190 1954-10-25
1954 Piano Solo Disques Vogue 1954-06-04
12-inch LPs
1955–1959: Riverside years
1956 Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington Riverside RLP 12-201 1955-07-21, -22
1956 The Unique Thelonious Monk Riverside RLP 12-209 1956-03-17, -04-03
1957 Brilliant Corners Riverside RLP 12-226 1956-10-15, -12-07
1957 Thelonious Himself Riverside RLP 12-235 1957-04-12, -16
1957 Monk's Music Riverside RLP 12-242 1957-06-26
1957 Mulligan Meets Monk Riverside RLP 12-247 1957-08-12, -13 with Gerry Mulligan
1959 5 by Monk by 5 Riverside RLP 12-305 1959-06-01, -02, -04
1959 Thelonious Alone in San Francisco Riverside RLP 12-312 1959-10-21, -22 recorded in Fugazi Hall
1961 Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Jazzland JLP-46 1957 with John Coltrane
1962–1968: Columbia years
1963 Monk's Dream Columbia
1963 Criss-Cross Columbia
1964 It's Monk's Time Columbia
1965 Monk Columbia
1965 Solo Monk Columbia
1967 Straight, No Chaser Columbia
1968 Underground Columbia
1968 Monk's Blues Columbia
1971: Black Lion session
1972 Something in Blue Black Lion BLP 30119 1971-11-15
1973 The Man I Love Black Lion BLP 30141 1971-11-15

Live albums

Year Title Label Date Recorded Venue Notes
1958 Thelonious in Action Riverside 1958-08-07 Five Spot Café
1958 Misterioso Riverside 1958-08-07 Five Spot Café
1959 The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Riverside 1959-02-28 The Town Hall
1960 At the Blackhawk Riverside 1960-04-29 Black Hawk
1963 Thelonious Monk in Italy Riverside 1961-04-21 Teatro Lirico
1963 In Tokyo 1 Columbia 1963-05-21
1963 In Tokyo 2 Columbia 1963-05-21
1964 Miles & Monk at Newport Columbia 1963-04 Newport Jazz Festival with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance
1964 Big Band and Quartet in Concert Columbia 1963-12-30 Philharmonic Hall, New York
1965 Monk in France Riverside
1965 Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) Columbia various various
1969 Monk in Tokyo CBS Sony 1963-05-21 reissued complete 1973
1981 April in Paris / Live Milestone 1961-04-18
1982 Live at the It Club Columbia 1964-10-31, -11-01 "It" Club
1982 Live at the Jazz Workshop Columbia 1964-11-03, -04 Jazz Workshop
1987 Live in Stockholm Dragon 1961-05-16
1988 Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 France's Concert 1967-11-03
1989 Live in Paris, 1964 France's Concert 1964-02-23 Maison de la Radio
1993 Discovery! Live at the Five Spot Blue Note 1958-09-11 Five Spot Café Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane
1994 Live at Monterey Jazz Festival '63 Storyville 1963-09-21, -22 Monterey Jazz Festival
2005 Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Blue Note 1957-11-29 Carnegie Hall
2007 Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey Jazz Festival Records 1964-09-20 Monterey Jazz Festival
2013 Paris 1969 Blue Note 1969-12-15 Salle Pleyel, Paris
2014 Complete 1961 Amsterdam Concert Solar 1961-04-15
2018 Mønk Gearbox 1963-03-05
2020 Palo Alto Impulse! 1968-10-27 Palo Alto High School[7][8]

Compilations

Year Title Label Catalog number Note
1956 Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet Blue Note BLP 1509
1956 Genius of Modern Music, Vol. One Blue Note BLP 1510
1956 Genius of Modern Music, Vol. Two Blue Note BLP 1511
1956 Thelonious Monk Trio Prestige PRLP 7027
1956 Monk Prestige PRLP 7053
1956 Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins Prestige PRLP 7075
1967 Monk's Miracles Columbia Record Club D 338 mail order only
1969 Monk's Greatest Hits Columbia CS 9775
1969 The Best of Thelonious Monk Riverside RS 3037
1983 Monk's Classic Recordings
1984 Blues Five Spot
1998 Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 Sony 2 CD
2001 The Columbia Years: '62–'68 Sony 3 CD
2003 The Essential Thelonious Monk Columbia/Legacy
2006 The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Riverside with John Coltrane; 2 CD

On other labels

  • Blue Sphere (Black Lion, ?) – recorded on November 15, 1971, AKA Nice Work in London
  • 1959: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam, 2017) – recorded on July 27, 1959

Box sets

Year Title Label Format Notes
1983 The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk Mosaic 4 LP
1989 The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions Mosaic 3 LP; 3 CD[9]
1991 The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk Riverside 15 CD
1994 The Complete Blue Note Recordings Blue Note 4 CD
2000 The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk Prestige 3 CD
2010 All Monk. The Riverside Albums Universal 16 CD
2012 The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection Sony 6 CD
2015 The Thelonious Monk Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection Sony 10 CD

Singles

Year A-side B-side Label Catalog number Notes
1947–1952: Blue Note years
10-inch shellac, 78 RPM
"Thelonious" "Suburban Eyes" Blue Note BN 542 [10]
"'Round About Midnight" "Well, You Needn't" Blue Note BN 543
"Evonce" "Off Minor" Blue Note BN 547
"In Walked Bud" "Epistrophy" Blue Note BN 548
"Ruby, My Dear" "Evidence" Blue Note BN 549
"Humph" "Misterioso" Blue Note BN 560
"I Should Care" "All the Things You Are" Blue Note BN 1201
"I Mean You" "Symphonette" Blue Note BN 1564 "Symphonette" not recorded by Monk; Tadd Dameron performance
"Who Knows" "Monk's Mood" Blue Note BN 1565
"April in Paris" "Nice Work If You Can Get It" Blue Note BN 1575
"Four in One" "Straight, No Chaser" Blue Note BN 1589
"Criss Cross" "Eronel" Blue Note BN 1590
1952 "Ask Me Now" "Willow Weep for Me" Blue Note BN 1591 "Willow Weep for Me" credited to Milt Jackson
"Skippy" "Let's Cool One" Blue Note BN 1602
"Hornin' In" "Carolina Moon" Blue Note BN 1603
7-inch, 45 RPM
"Lillie" "Willow Weep for Me" Blue Note BN 45-1646 credited to Milt Jackson
"'Round About Midnight" "In Walked Bud" Blue Note BN 45-1664

As sideman

With Art Blakey

With Dave Brubeck

  • Summitt Sessions (Columbia, 1970) – 1 track

With Miles Davis

With Coleman Hawkins

  • Bean and the Boys (Prestige, 1972) – recorded in 1944. 4 tracks only.

With Milt Jackson

With Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

With Sonny Rollins

With Gigi Gryce

With Clark Terry

References

  1. ^ The majority of the contents of the first 4 of these five LPs were released, sequenced mostly in order, on a Prestige double-LP compilation in 1972, PR/PRT 24006, Thelonious Monk. The exception was the take of "Think of One" selected; on the compilation, Take 1 was used instead of the originally-selected Take 2.
  2. ^ Ingalls, Chris, "Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige 10-inch LP Collection", popmatters.com, 20 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Craft To Release Historic Box Set of Monk on 10-Inch Vinyl", DownBeat, November 16, 2017.
  4. ^ Amarosi, AD, "Thelonious Monk, “The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection”, Flood Magazine, December 21st 2017.
  5. ^ Helfet, Gabriela, "Five Thelonious Monk albums remastered and reissued in new 10″ box set", thevinylfactory.com, October 31, 2017.
  6. ^ The LPs were re-released by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017.[2][3][4][5]
  7. ^ Stone, Sam, "Epistrophy: Unreleased Thelonious Monk 'Palo Alto' Concert Arrives in July", theseconddisc.com, June 19, 2020.
  8. ^ King, Noel, and Nate Chinen, "A Previously Unreleased Thelonious Monk Concert Is Coming Next Month", NPR, June 19, 2020.
  9. ^ "Out-Of-Print Limited Edition Jazz Collections". Mosaic Records - Home for Jazz fans!. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  10. ^ "Blue Note Records Catalog: 78 RPM series".
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