Mulligan Meets Monk

Mulligan Meets Monk
Mulligan Meets Monk
Studio album by Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan
Released	1957
Recorded	August 12–13, 1957; Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz, bebop
Length	40:52 (Original LP) 59:31 (reissue)
Label	Riverside; RLP 12-247
Producer	Orrin Keepnews
Thelonious Monk chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[4]

Mulligan Meets Monk is a studio album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, originally released on Riverside Records in 1957.^[5]^[6] It has been reissued numerous times. It was remastered for CD in 1987 (on Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics) with three additional alternative takes from the original session.^[7]

Track listing[]

Original LP (1957)[]

Side One

"'Round Midnight" (Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 8:29
"Rhythm-a-Ning" (Monk) – 5:19
"Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 7:17

Side Two

"Decidedly" (Gerry Mulligan) – 5:54
"Straight, No Chaser" (Monk) – 7:00
"I Mean You" (Monk, Coleman Hawkins) – 6:53

Digital re-release (1987)[]

"'Round Midnight" – 8:29
"Rhythm-a-Ning" – 5:19
"Sweet and Lovely" – 7:17
"Decidedly" (original stereo take 4) – 5:54
"Decidedly" (original mono take 5) – 6:37
"Straight, No Chaser" (original take 3) – 7:00
"Straight, No Chaser" (alternate take 1) – 5:29
"I Mean You" (original take 4) – 6:53
"I Mean You" (alternate take 2) – 6:30

Personnel[]

Technical personnel

Orrin Keepnews - producer, liner notes
Jack Higgins - recording engineer
Robert Parent - cover photo
Paul Bacon - cover design

For the CD-release (1987)

Phil De Lancie - digital remastering
Peter Grant - design

References[]

^ Allmusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th edn). Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^ Cf. Jazzdisco.org
^ Mulligan Meets Monk at Discogs
^ All tracks were also part of the box set Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings at Discogs (list of releases) issued a year before in 1986.

[1] Allmusic review

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th edn). Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[4] Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

[5] Cf. Jazzdisco.org

[6] Mulligan Meets Monk at Discogs

[7] All tracks were also part of the box set Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings at Discogs (list of releases) issued a year before in 1986.

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Discography Compositions
As leader	Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 Wizard of the Vibes Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 Thelonious Monk Trio Monk Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins Piano Solo Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington The Unique Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Thelonious Himself Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk Monk's Music Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Mulligan Meets Monk Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Thelonious in Action Misterioso The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall 5 by Monk by 5 Thelonious Alone in San Francisco Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk Monk in France Thelonious Monk in Italy Monk's Dream Criss-Cross Monk in Tokyo Miles & Monk at Newport Big Band and Quartet in Concert It's Monk's Time Monk Solo Monk Live at the It Club Live at the Jazz Workshop Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 Underground Monk's Blues
With others	Midnight at Minton's Bird and Diz Bags' Groove Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Moving Out Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Nica's Tempo In Orbit
Compositions	"In Walked Bud" "'Round Midnight"
Related	Blue Note Sessions Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

show v t Gerry Mulligan
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release. Some of the titles have been shortened.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1953) Paris Concert (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1954) California Concerts (1954) Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955) Mainstream of Jazz (1956) At Storyville (1956) The Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Bob Brookmeyer at Newport (split album, 1957) Jazz Giants '58 (with Harry Edison, Stan Getz, 1958) Mulligan Meets Monk (with Thelonious Monk, 1957) Blues in Time (with Paul Desmond, 1957) Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz Jazz Concerto Grosso (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1957) The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957) Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan! (1957–58) What Is There to Say? (1958–59) Meets Johnny Hodges (1959) Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (1959) The Concert Jazz Band (1960) The Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960) The Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard (1960) Holliday with Mulligan (with Judy Holliday, 1961) Presents a Concert in Jazz (1961) The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1962) Jeru (1962) Two of a Mind (with Paul Desmond, 1962) Spring Is Sprung (1962) Gerry Mulligan '63 (1962) Night Lights (1963) Butterfly with Hiccups (1963–64) If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! (1965) Feelin' Good (1965) Something Borrowed - Something Blue (1966) Summit (with Astor Piazzolla, 1974) Walk on the Water (1980)
With Chet Baker	Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 1 (1952) Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 2 (1953) Gene Norman Presents the Original Gerry Mulligan Tentet and Quartet (1953) Reunion (1957) Carnegie Hall Concert (1974)
With Dave Brubeck	Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970) The Last Set at Newport (1971) We're All Together Again for the First Time (1972)
With others	Birth of the Cool (Miles Davis, 1949–50) 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe (Barry Manilow, 1984) Pelé (Sérgio Mendes & Pelé, 1977) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972) The Classic Concert Live (with Mel Tormé & George Shearing, 1982)
Soundtracks	The Sound of Jazz (1957) I Want to Live! (1958) The Subterraneans (1960) The Hot Rock (Quincy Jones, 1971)