Live at the It Club

Live at the It Club is the ninth album Thelonious Monk released for Columbia Records. Recorded October 31, and November 1, 1964, the album features Monk compositions as well jazz standards.

In 1998, Columbia/Legacy Records reissued the album as a double-disc set that contained all of his performances from that night.

Track listing

Original LP

Reissue

CD 1

1. "Blue Monk"
2. "Well, You Needn't"
3. "'Round Midnight"
4. "Rhythm-A-Ning"
5. "Blues Five Spot"
6. "Bemsha Swing"
7. "Evidence"
8. "Nutty"
9. "Epistrophy" (Theme)

CD 2

1. "Straight, No Chaser"
2. "Teo"
3. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
4. "Misterioso"
5. "Gallop’s Gallop"
6. "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are"
7. "Bright Mississippi"
8. "Just You, Just Me"
9. "All The Things You Are"
10. "Epistrophy" (Theme)

Personnel

• Thelonious Monk – piano
• Ben Riley – drums
• Charlie Rouse – tenor sax
• Larry Gales – bass

References