Thelonious Monk discography
The following is the discography of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917–1982).
Discography[]
Blue Note Records (1948–1952)[]
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.
- Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (1947 Blue Note recordings)
- Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet (a.k.a. Milt Jackson: Wizard of the Vibes) (July 2, 1948 Blue Note recording session)
- Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (July 23, 1951 and May 30, 1952 Blue Note recording sessions)
Later Releases:
- Thelonious Monk Quartet Featuring John Coltrane Live at the Five Spot Discovery! (summer 1958, released 1993)
- Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (November 29, 1957, released 2005)
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]
- Thelonious Monk Trio: Thelonious (Prestige PrLP 142), recorded October 15, 1952 (side A) and December 18, 1952 (side B)
- Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows For LP, Featuring Sonny Rollins (Prestige PrLP 166), Recorded November 13, 1953
- Thelonious Monk Quintet (with Frank Foster, Art Blakey) (Prestige PrLP 180), Recorded May 11, 1954
- Thelonious Monk Plays (with Percy Heath and Art Blakey) (Prestige PrLP 189), Recorded September 22, 1954
- Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk (Prestige PrLP 190), Recorded October 25, 1954
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[]
- Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige 7027), recorded 1952–4
- Monk (Prestige 7053) recorded 1953-4
- Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige 7075), recorded 1953-4
Disques Vogue (1954)[]
- Piano Solo (Disques Vogue, 1954) - first solo piano album, recorded in Paris
Riverside Records (1955–1961)[]
- Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)
- The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)
- Brilliant Corners (1956 recording with Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry)
- Thelonious Himself (1957)
- Monk's Music (1957)
- Mulligan Meets Monk (1957, with Gerry Mulligan)
- Thelonious in Action and Misterioso (1958, live at the Five Spot with Johnny Griffin)
- The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959, Charlie Rouse joined the band then)
- 5 by Monk by 5 (1959)
- Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959)
- Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (1960, with Charlie Rouse)
- Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1957 recordings, 1961 issue) – Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.
- Monk in France (recorded in 1961)
- Thelonious Monk in Italy (recorded 1961, released 1963)
- The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2006 collection of the 1957 studio recordings with Coltrane)
Columbia Records (1962–1968)[]
- Monk's Dream (1963)
- Criss-Cross (1963)
- Monk in Tokyo (1963)
- Miles & Monk at Newport (1963, with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance)
- Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963)
- It's Monk's Time (1964)
- Monk (1964)
- Solo Monk (1964)
- Live at the It Club (1964)
- Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
- Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) (1965)
- Straight, No Chaser (1967)
- Underground (1968)
- Monk's Blues (1968)
Far East Records (1970)[]
- Monk in Tokyo (1970, live, with Paul Jeffrey ts, Larry Ridley b, Lenny McBrowne d)
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
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Atlantic, 1958)
- The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic, 1971)
With Dave Brubeck
- (Columbia, 1970, one track only)
With Miles Davis
- Bags' Groove (Prestige, 1954)
- Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (Prestige, 1954)
With Coleman Hawkins
- Bean and the Boys (Prestige, 1944 [1972], 4 tracks only)
With Milt Jackson
- Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note, 1948)
With Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
- Bird and Diz (Verve, 1950)
With Sonny Rollins
- Moving Out (Prestige, 1954)
- Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957)
With Gigi Gryce
- Nica's Tempo (Savoy, 1955)
With Clark Terry
- In Orbit (Riverside, 1958)
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[]
- ^ Ingalls, Chris, "Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige 10-inch LP Collection", popmatters.com, 20 December 2017.
- ^ "Craft To Release Historic Box Set of Monk on 10-Inch Vinyl", DownBeat, November 16, 2017.
- ^ Amarosi, AD, "Thelonious Monk, “The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection”, Flood Magazine, December 21st 2017.
- ^ Helfet, Gabriela, "Five Thelonious Monk albums remastered and reissued in new 10″ box set", thevinylfactory.com, October 31, 2017.
- ^ Stone, Sam, "Epistrophy: Unreleased Thelonious Monk 'Palo Alto' Concert Arrives in July", , June 19, 2020.
- ^ King, Noel, and Nate Chinen, "A Previously Unreleased Thelonious Monk Concert Is Coming Next Month", NPR, June 19, 2020.
- ^ "Out-Of-Print Limited Edition Jazz Collections". Mosaic Records - Home for Jazz fans!. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
External links[]
- Jazz discographies
- Thelonious Monk