Thelonious Monk
Miles & Monk At Newport (LP)
1973 Japanese re-issue on CBS/Sony's "Jazz 1100" series of the 1964 split live album recorded with recordings from 1958 and 1963 featuring John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly and Bill Evans. With insert.
Monk's Dream (LP)
1987 German re-issue on CBS' "Jazz Masterpieces" series of the 1963 album. With original innersleeve.
Thelonious Monk And Herbie Nichols (LP)
Original US edition of the 1986 split compilation with recordings from 1955 and 1952 featuring The Gigi Gryce Quartet with Art Blakey. With postcard.
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (CD)
Early 1990's CD re-issue on Atlantic Jazz of the 1958 album.
Round About Midnight (LP)
1980 Japanese re-issue on Vogue of the 1954 album. With obi.
Thelonious Himself (LP)
1974 Japanese re-issue on Milestone's "Riverside Original Recording Series" of the 1957 album featuring John Coltrane. With insert and obi.
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane (LP)
1982 US re-issue on Riverside/Jazzland's "Original Jazz Classics" series of the 1961 album featuring John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins and Art Blakey. With obi.
Monk's Dream (LP)
1974 Japanese re-issue on CBS/Sony's "Best Jazz Collection" series of the 1963 album. With insert and obi.
Greatest Hits (LP)
Original Japanese edition on CBS/Sony with different cover of the 1969 compilation.
Brilliance (2LP)
1975 2LP US compilation on Milestone with tracks from the 1950's albums Brilliant Corners and Five By Monk By Five plus a previously unissued track, featuring Max Roach and Sonny Rollins. With original innersleeve.
Genius Monk (LP)
1982 Japan-only compilation on Blue Note never re-issued on either LP or CD. With Obi and insert.
Genius Monk (LP)
1982 Japan-only compilation on Blue Note never re-issued on either LP or CD. With Obi and insert.
Live at the It Club
On Live at the It Club, Thelonious Monk and his classic quartet - Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales and Ben Riley - burn through two nights of Los Angeles brilliance in 1964, turning familiar originals and standards into angular, swinging explorations now fully restored in a complete edition.
Piano Solo
It happens very rarely that you can praise a records without any reservations, this is the case here!!! A lot of ink has flowed across the page since the Vogue/Swing release (1955) of that founding solo record. The repertoire was made up of pieces that Thelonious was playing in New York over that period, but in trio or with a quartet, here his music shows nakedness, i should say crudeness, whisch is completely overwhelming. It is a balck and white photograph of what is happening inside Monk's he…
Genius Of Modern Music Volume One
** Special Time-Limited Offer ** Genius of Modern Music gathers early recordings that reveal just how far ahead Thelonious Monk was thinking, with different sessions featuring combinations of Idrees Sulieman, Milt Jackson, Gene Ramey, Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke, and others. The tunes – “’Round Midnight,” “Epistrophy,” “Ruby, My Dear” and more – present themselves as puzzles: jagged melodies, off‑kilter accents, harmonies that jab when one expects glide. Monk’s pianism, all percussive attack and un…
Thelonious Monk With Sonny Rollins 1953 To 1957 (Revisited)
Though they may not have recorded together until 1953, when Rollins was 23 years old, Sonny was introduced to Monk while a senior in high school, already part of a cadre of young neighborhood jazz neophytes. Monk became a mentor to them, offering home-based instruction on the new possibilities restructuring bop harmonies and rhythms, or as Rollins later put it, “the geometry of musical time and space.” - Art Lange
Live in Paris (1966)
A unique pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) is one of the greatest jazz legends of all time. Thelonious is surrounded by his legendary quartet featuring Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Larry Gales ( double bass) and Ben Riley (drums). First ever official release of this lost ORTF recording performed live in Paris at Studio 104, Maison de la Radio. Remastered from original tapes in high resolution.
At Carnegie Hall
Unearthed in 2005 by staff at the Library of Congress, At Carnegie Hall is an incredible performance delivered on 29 November 1957 by jazz giants Monk and Coltrane, together with bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik and drummer Shadow Wilson. Far superior to that captured at the Five Spot five months earlier, At Carnegie Hall shows Coltrane finding his own sax sphere as Monk explores the limits of experimental excursions on the keyboard; Monk is in his element on ‘Crepuscule With Nellie’ and Trane shows hi…
Monk's Blues
Monk’s Blues is an album by Thelonious Monk, accompanied by a big band arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. Produced by Teo Macero, the album was recorded in Los Angeles by Monk‘s working quartet augmented by a group of top Hollywood studio musicians. The Monk Quartet included Monk on the piano, Charlie Rouse on Tenor Saxophone, Larry Gales on Bass and Ben Riley on the Drums. Additional musicians a.o. Tom Scott, Buddy Collette, Bobby Bryant and Conte Candoli. Monk’s Blues is available as a l…
Monk's Music
*2024 stock* "Monk’s Music" is an important album because it is one of the very few testimonies of Thelonious Monk’s band at the time John Coltrane was a regular member. It also showcases a second tenor sax, that of the legendary Coleman Hawkins, who in the 1940s featured Monk as the pianist of his band, and with whom Monk made his first studio recordings.
The album received a five-star rating in Down Beat, with Dom Cerulli stating that, “Throughout, Monk is the dominant force. The music, whethe…