Thelonious Monk discography

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

Discography[]

Blue Note Records (1948–1952)[]

Main article: Thelonious Monk Blue Note Sessions

The recording session dates reflect the CD editions of these albums. Prior LP versions contained the six Blue Note recording sessions in different, non-chronological configurations.

Later Releases:

Prestige Records (1952–1954)[]

Original 10" LPs[]

Before their eventual formulation into three somewhat haphazard, non-chronological 12-inch LPs, Thelonious Monk's Prestige output consisted of five strictly chronological LPs. The LPs were re-released by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017. The LPs were released in the 1950s as follows:[1][2][3][4]

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 standard 12" long-playing albums[]

Disques Vogue (1954)[]

  • Piano Solo (Disques Vogue, 1954) - first solo piano album, recorded in Paris

Riverside Records (1955–1961)[]

Columbia Records (1962–1968)[]

Far East Records (1970)[]

Black Lion Records (1971)[]

  • Something in Blue, Nice Work in London, Blue Sphere and The Man I Love (all 1971 recordings, collected in The London Collection 1988, three individual CDs)

On other labels[]

  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (July 27, 1959, Sam Records (Eu) SRS-1-LE)
  • Complete 1961 Amsterdam Concert (April 15, 1961, Solar 2014)
  • April in Paris (April 18, 1961, Milestone 1981)
  • Live in Stockholm (May 16, 1961, Dragon 1987)
  • Mønk (March 5, 1963, Gearbox 2018)
  • Live at Monterey Jazz Festival '63 (Sept. 21 & 22 1963, Storyville 1994)
  • Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival (September 20, 1964, Monterey Jazz Festival Records 2007)
  • Live in Paris, 1964 (February 23, 1964, Maison de la Radio, Paris - France's Concert, FC-132x2, France, 1989)
  • Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 (France Concert LP FC-113, 1988)
  • Palo Alto (Oct. 27, 1968, live at Palo Alto High School, Impulse! Records 2020)[5][6]
  • Paris 1969 (December 15, 1969, Salle Pleyel, Paris - Laser Swing Productions/Blue Note Records 2013)

As sideman[]

With Art Blakey

With Dave Brubeck

  • (Columbia, 1970, one track only)

With Miles Davis

With Coleman Hawkins

  • Bean and the Boys (Prestige, 1944 [1972], 4 tracks only)

With Milt Jackson

With Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

With Sonny Rollins

With Gigi Gryce

With Clark Terry

Compilations[]

  • 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 1958–61, with various saxophonists and Thad Jones, cornet)
  • The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1991, 15 CD, Riverside)
  • The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1994, 4 CD, Blue Note)
  • Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 (1998, 2 CD, Sony)
  • The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk (2000, 3 CD, Prestige)
  • The Columbia Years: '62–'68 (2001, 3 CD, Sony)
  • The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions (1954–71) (3LP, Mosaic)[7]
  • All Monk. The Riverside Albums (2010, 16 CD, Universal)
  • 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)

References[]

  1. ^ Ingalls, Chris, "Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige 10-inch LP Collection", popmatters.com, 20 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Craft To Release Historic Box Set of Monk on 10-Inch Vinyl", DownBeat, November 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Amarosi, AD, "Thelonious Monk, “The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection”, Flood Magazine, December 21st 2017.
  4. ^ Helfet, Gabriela, "Five Thelonious Monk albums remastered and reissued in new 10″ box set", thevinylfactory.com, October 31, 2017.
  5. ^ Stone, Sam, "Epistrophy: Unreleased Thelonious Monk 'Palo Alto' Concert Arrives in July", , June 19, 2020.
  6. ^ King, Noel, and Nate Chinen, "A Previously Unreleased Thelonious Monk Concert Is Coming Next Month", NPR, June 19, 2020.
  7. ^ "Out-Of-Print Limited Edition Jazz Collections". Mosaic Records - Home for Jazz fans!. Retrieved 2021-07-21.

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