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Thelonious Monk discography

Summary

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:

  • 1956: Milt Jackson (BLP 1509) – 1948, 1951 and 1952 Blue Note recording sessions
  • 1956: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (BLP 1510) – 1947 Blue Note recording sessions
  • 1956: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (BLP 1511) – 1951 and 1952 Blue Note recording sessions
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

  • Summitt Sessions (Columbia, 1970) – 1 track

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

  • Thelonious Monk's discography
  • Covers and Liner Notes of Blue Note 10" LPs: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/index.htm
  • Covers and Liner Notes of Blue Note 12" LPs: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote2/index.htm
  • Blue Note 78 rpm series (12 inch 78 rpm) - BN 1 Meade "Lux" Lewis - Melancholy / Solitude 1939
  • Blue Note Records Catalog: 45 rpm 1600 series - single index

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