Biography

The most important jazz musicians are the ones who are successful in creating their own original world of music with its own rules, logic, and surprises. Thelonious Monk, who was criticized by observers who failed to listen to his music on its own terms, suffered through a decade of neglect before he was suddenly acclaimed as a genius; his music had not changed one bit in the interim. In fact, one of the more remarkable aspects of Monk's music was that it was fully formed by 1947 and he saw no need to alter his playing or compositional style in the slightest during the next 25 years. ~ Scott Yanow

Top Tracks

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• All The Things You Are

• April In Paris

• Ask Me Now

• Bemsha Swing

• Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

• Blue Monk

• Blue Rondo A La Turk

• Bright Mississippi

• Brilliant Corners

• Bye-ya

• Caravan

• Carolina Moon

• Crepuscule With Nellie

• Criss Cross

• Criss-cross

• Dinah

• E.s.p.

• Epistrophy

• Epistrophy (complete)

• Everything Happens To Me

• Evidence

• Evonce

• Five Spot Blues

• Four In One

• Green Chimneys

• Hackensack

• Humph

• I Mean You

• I Surrender, Dear

• I Want To Be Happy

• I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

• In Walked Bud

• It Don't Mean A Thing (if It Ain't Got That Swing)

• Jackie-ing

• Just A Gigolo

• Just You, Just Me

• Let's Call This

• Let's Cool One

• Little Rootie Tootie

• Liza (all The Clouds'll Roll Away)

• Misterioso

• Monk's Dream

• Monk's Mood

• Mysterioso

• Nice Work If You Can Get It

• Nutty

• Off Minor

• Pannonica

• Reflections

• Rhythm-a-ning

• 'round About Midnight

• Round Midnight

• 'round Midnight

• Ruby My Dear

• Ruby, My Dear

• Skippy

• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

• So What

• Sophisticated Lady

• Straight No Chaser

• Straight, No Chaser

• Take Five

• Tea For Two

• Thelonious

• Think Of One

• Trinkle, Tinkle

• Ugly Beauty

• We See

• Well You Needn't

• Well, You Needn't

• Willow Weep For Me

Discography

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• Big Band and Quartet in Concert

  Legacy / Columbia

  1963

• Tokyo Concerts

  Sony Music Distribution

  1963

• Two Hours with Thelonious Monk, Vol. 2

  1963

• Two Hours with Thelonious Monk, Vol. 1

  Riverside Records

  1963

• Monk in Bern

  magnetic

  1961

• Monk in Italy

  Original Jazz Classics / Riverside/OJC

  1961

• The First European Concert

  magnetic

  1961

• Blues Five Spot

  Milestone Records

  1961

• Evidence

  France's Concert

  1960

• In Person

  Milestone Records

  1959

• New York with Johnny Griffin

  Atlantic

  1958

• Broken Hearted Blues

  Riverside Records

  1956

• Riverside Trios

  Milestone Records

  1956

• Blue Monk, Vol. 2

  Prestige Records

  1954

• We See [Dreyfus]

  Dreyfus Records

  1954

• Thelonious Monk/Milt Jackson

  Blue Note

  1952