Thelonious Monk discography

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

Discography[edit]

Blue Note Records (1947–1952)[edit]

Singles[edit]

Singles released from the Blue Note sessions include the following:[1]

Blue Note 500 series (10 inch 78 rpm)[edit]
  • BN 542 "Thelonious" (BN311-0) / "Suburban Eyes" (BN310-1)
  • BN 543 "'Round About Midnight" (BN321-1) / "Well, You Needn't" (BN314-0)
  • BN 547 "Evonce" (BN309-4) / "Off Minor" (BN317-1)
  • BN 548 "In Walked Bud" (BN318-3) / "Epistrophy" (BN330-0)
  • BN 549 "Ruby, My Dear" (BN313-1) / "Evidence" (BN328-0)
  • BN 560 "Humph" (BN308-2) / "Misterioso" (BN329-0)
Blue Note 1200 series (10 inch 78 rpm)[edit]
  • BN 1201 "I Should Care" (BN327-2) / "All the Things You Are" (BN326-3)
Blue Note 1500 series (10 inch 78 rpm)[edit]
  • BN 1564 "I Mean You" (BN331-1) / "Symphonette" (BN334-1) ["Symphonette" not recorded by Monk; Tadd Dameron performance]
  • BN 1565 "Who Knows" (BN320-0) / "Monk's Mood" (BN319-0)
  • BN 1575 "April in Paris" (BN315-1) / "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (BN312-1)
  • BN 1589 "Four in One" (BN392-1) / "Straight, No Chaser" (BN395-1)
  • BN 1590 "Criss Cross" (BN393-0) / "Eronel" (BN394-0)
  • BN 1591 "Ask Me Now" (BN396-1) / "Willow Weep for Me" (BN397-0)
  • BN 1602 "Skippy" (BN434-1 tk.2) / "Let's Cool One" (BN438-0 tk.11)
  • BN 1603 "Hornin' In" (BN435-3 tk.7) / "Carolina Moon" (BN437-0 tk.10)
Blue Note 1600 series (7 inch 45 rpm)[edit]
  • BN 45-1664 "'Round About Midnight" (BN321-1) / "In Walked Bud" (BN318-3)
  • BN 45-1646 "Lillie" [Milt Jackson] (BN423-1 tk.4) / "Willow Weep for Me" (BN397-0) [credited to Milt Jackson]

LPs[edit]

10-inch LPs[edit]

The recording sessions had been issued in various forms before 12 inch LP era of BLP-1500 series. And initial 12 inch LP versions still contained the six Blue Note recording sessions in non-chronological configurations. CD versions became to reflect the recording dates roughly in the following notes:

12-inch LPs[edit]

The recording sessions had been issued in various forms before 12 inch LP era of BLP-1500 series. And initial 12 inch LP versions still contained the six Blue Note recording sessions in non-chronological configurations. CD versions became to reflect the recording dates roughly in the following notes:

Live albums[edit]

Box sets

Prestige Records (1952–1954)[edit]

LPs[edit]

Original 10-inch LPs[edit]

Before their eventual formulation into three somewhat haphazard, non-chronological 12-inch LPs, Thelonious Monk's Prestige output consisted of five strictly chronological 10-inch (shorter-duration) LPs. The LPs were re-released by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017. The LPs were released in the 1950s as follows:[2][3][4][5]

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.

Recompilations as 12-inch LP albums[edit]

Box sets

The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk (2000, 3 CD, Prestige)

Riverside Records (1955–1961)[edit]

Box sets

Columbia Records (1962–1968)[edit]

Box sets

  • The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (2012, 6 CD, Sony)
  • The Thelonious Monk Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection (2015, 10 CD, Sony)

On other labels[edit]

  • 1954: Piano Solo (Disques Vogue, 1954) - the first solo piano album, recorded in Paris on June 4, 1954
  • 1959: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam, 2017) – recorded on July 27, 1959
  • 1961: Complete 1961 Amsterdam Concert (Solar, 2014) – recorded on April 15, 1961
  • 1961: April in Paris (Milestone, 1981) – recorded on April 18, 1961
  • 1961: Live in Stockholm (Dragon, 1987) – recorded on May 16, 1961
  • 1963: Mønk (Gearbox, 2018) – recorded on March 5, 1963
  • 1963: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival '63 (Storyville, 1994) – live recorded on September 21 & 22, 1963
  • 1964: Live in Paris, 1964 (France's Concert, 1989) – live recorded at Maison de la Radio on February 23, 1964
  • 1964: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival Records, 2007) – live recorded on September 20, 1964
  • 1967: Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 (France's Concert, 1988) – live recorded on November 3, 1967
  • 1968: Palo Alto (Impulse!, 2020) – live recorded at Palo Alto High School on October 27, 1968[6][7]
  • 1969: Paris 1969 (Laser Swing Productions/Blue Note, 2013)[CD + DVD-Video] – live recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris on December 15, 1969
  • 1971: The Man I Love (Black Lion, 1971) – recorded on November 15, 1971
  • 1971: Something in Blue (Black Lion, 1972) – recorded on November 15, 1971
  • 1971: Blue Sphere (Black Lion, ?) – recorded on November 15, 1971

Compilations[edit]

  • Monk's Miracles (1966)
  • Monk's Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1968)
  • The Best of Thelonious Monk (Riverside Records, 1969)
  • Midnight at Minton's (c.1941, issued 1973 under Don Byas' name. Monk does not play on all tracks of this or the other two CDs of 1941 material)
  • After Hours (c.1941, issued 1973 under Charlie Christian's name)
  • After Hours in Harlem (c.1941, issued 1973 under Hot Lips Page's name)
  • Monk's Classic Recordings (1983)
  • Blues Five Spot (1984, unissued recordings from 1958 to 1961, with various saxophonists and Thad Jones, cornet)
  • Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 (1998, 2 CD, Sony)
  • The Columbia Years: '62–'68 (2001, 3 CD, Sony)
  • The Essential Thelonious Monk (2003, CD, Columbia/Legacy)
  • The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions (1954–71) (3LP, Mosaic)[8]

As sideman[edit]

With Art Blakey[edit]

With Dave Brubeck[edit]

With Miles Davis[edit]

With Coleman Hawkins[edit]

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

With Milt Jackson[edit]

With Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie[edit]

With Sonny Rollins[edit]

With Gigi Gryce[edit]

With Clark Terry[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Blue Note Records Catalog: 78 RPM series".
  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. ^ Stone, Sam, "Epistrophy: Unreleased Thelonious Monk 'Palo Alto' Concert Arrives in July", theseconddisc.com, June 19, 2020.
  7. ^ King, Noel, and Nate Chinen, "A Previously Unreleased Thelonious Monk Concert Is Coming Next Month", NPR, June 19, 2020.
  8. ^ "Out-Of-Print Limited Edition Jazz Collections". Mosaic Records - Home for Jazz fans!. Retrieved 2021-07-21.

External links[edit]

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