Misterioso

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Misterioso
Live album by Thelonious Monk
Released 1958
Recorded August 7, 1958
Genre Jazz
Length 60:06
Label Riverside/OJC
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Professional reviews
Thelonious Monk chronology
Blues Five Spot (album) Misterioso
(1958)		 Thelonious in Action: Recorded at the Five Spot Cafe
(1958)

Misterioso is a 1958 (see 1958 in music) album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk. It was recorded live at the Five Spot Cafe with Thelonious Monk (piano), Johnny Griffin (sax), Ahmed Abdul-Malik (bass), and Roy Haynes (drums). The cover is taken from a painting by the Pittura Metafisica artist Giorgio De Chirico entitled The Seer (or The Prophet).

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Nutty" (Thelonious Monk) –5:21
  2. "Blues Five Spot" (Monk) –8:10
  3. "Let's Cool One" (Monk) –9:11
  4. "In Walked Bud" (Barris-Clifford) –11:15
  5. "Just A Gigolo" (Monk-Best) –2:07
  6. "Misterioso" (Monk-Best) –10:44

bonus tracks

  1. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) –6:16
  2. "Evidence" (Thelonious Monk) –10:11

bonus tracks were recorded at an earlier performance

[edit] Personnel

  • Orrin Keepnews - producer
  • Ray Fowler - engineer
  • Shigeo Miyamoto - mastering
  • Paul Bacon - Cover Design