Thelonious Monk discography

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

Discography

Blue Note Records (1947–1952)
Main article: Thelonious Monk Blue Note Sessions

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:

Posthumous releases

Prestige Records (1952–1954)

Original 10-inch LPs
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:[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 12-inch LP albums

Riverside Records (1955–1961)

Columbia Records (1962–1968)

On other labels
  • 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: Monk in Tokyo (CBS/Sony, 1969, 1973) – live recorded in Tokyo on May 21, 1963; edited and complete forms of In Tokyo LPs
  • 1963: The Classic Quartet (Candid, 2006, 2023) – live recorded for TV in Tokyo during 1963 tour of Japan (also released under the title Thelonious Monk 1963 Japan by various labels, first in 1983); different performance from the Monk in Tokyo album[5]
  • 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

As sideman

With Art Blakey

With Dave Brubeck

  • Summitt Sessions (Columbia, 1970) – 1 track

With Miles Davis

With Coleman Hawkins

  • Bean and the Boys (Prestige, 1972) – recorded in 1944. 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 to 1961, 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 Essential Thelonious Monk (2003, CD, Columbia/Legacy)
  • The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions (1954–71) (3LP, Mosaic)[8]
  • 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. Jim Hynes (2 June 2023). "Recorded Live in Japan in 1963, Candid Records Reissues Re-Mastered 'Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet' (ALBUM REVIEW)". glidemagazine.com. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  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.
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