Thelonious Monk discography
Thelonious Monk jazz pianist discography.
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 and Vogue (1952–1954)
- Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige 7027), 1952–4
- Monk (Prestige 7053) recorded 1953-4
- Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige 7075), recorded 1953-4
- Solo 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 (France Concert LP FC-113, 1967)
As sideman
With Art Blakey
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Atlantic, 1958)
- The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic, 1971)
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)
With Milt Jackson
- Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note, 1948)
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)
- All Monk. The Riverside Albums (2010, 16 CD, Universal)
- The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (2012, 6 CD, Sony)
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