Live at the Jazz Workshop

Live at the Jazz Workshop is a live album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk, recorded during two shows in San Francisco in 1964 and first released in 1982, by Columbia Records.

Release history

The tapes of these two shows stayed locked away in the Columbia Records vault for almost 20 years, until the label released a double-LP from them shortly after Monk's death in 1982. A CD release followed in 2001, under the name of "Live at the Jazz Workshop - Complete", featuring a number of bonus tracks, and nearly doubling the length of the record.

Track listing

Original 1982 release

Side 1

1. Don’t Blame Me/Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are
2. Well, You Needn’t
3. Evidence (Justice)/Rhythm-A-Ning
4. 'Round About Midnight
5. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You

Side 2

1. Bemsha Swing
2. Memories Of You/Just You, Just Me
3. Blue Monk
4. Misterioso
5. Hackensack
6. Bright Mississippi
7. Epistrophy

Live at the Jazz Workshop: Complete (2001) (2CD)

CD 1

1. Don’t Blame Me - 1:43
2. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are - 7:32
3. Well, You Needn’t - 10:30
4. Evidence/Rhythm-A-Ning - 6:24
5. Epistrophy (theme) - 1:05
6. Hackensack - 8:03
7. Bright Mississippi - 1:05
8. Evidence - 4:36
9. Epistrophy - 3:53
10. Round Midnight 6:06
11. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You - 6:41
12. Memories Of You - 2:28
13. Just You, Just Me - 6:44
14. Epistrophy - 5:28

CD 2

1. Blue Monk - 7:06
2. Well, You Needn’t - 8:08
3. Bright Mississippi - 8:11
4. Bemsha Swing; - 4:09
5. Round Midnight - 6:27
6. Nutty - 8:08
7. Straight, No Chaser - 6:29
8. Thelonious - 3:57
9. Hackensack - 5:35
10. Misterioso - 6:52
11. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are - 7:47
12. Epistrophy (theme) - 1:02

Personnel

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

References