Mulligan Meets Monk

Mulligan Meets Monk
Studio album by Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan
Released 1957
Recorded August 12-13, 1957
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 59:31 (reissue)
Label Riverside
RLP 247
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Thelonious Monk chronology
Monk's Music
(1957)		 Mulligan Meets Monk
(1957)		 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
(1958)
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Mulligan Meets Monk is a jazz album by saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and pianist Thelonious Monk, originally released in 1957.[2] It has been reissued numerous times on CD. It was remastered in 2003 with an altered track sequence and an additional take of "I Mean You".[3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "'Round Midnight" (Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 8:29
  2. "Rhythm-A-Ning" (Monk) – 5:19
  3. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 7:17
  4. "Decidedly" [Take 4] (Gerry Mulligan) – 5:54
  5. "Decidedly" (Mulligan) – 6:37
  6. "Straight, No Chaser" (Monk) – 7:00
  7. "Straight, No Chaser" (Monk) – 5:29
  8. "I Mean You" [Take 4] (Monk, Coleman Hawkins) – 6:53
  9. "I Mean You" (Monk, Hawkins) – 6:30

Personnel

Technical personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Allmusic entry for reissue of Mulligan Meets Monk Retrieved November 2009.
  3. ^ Allmusic entry for remastered reissue of Mulligan Meets Monk. Retrieved November 2009.
Thelonious Monk
Selected solo albums
Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 · Wizard of the Vibes · Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 · Thelonious Monk Trio · Monk · Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins · Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington · The Unique Thelonious Monk · Brilliant Corners · Thelonious Himself · Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane · Monk's Music · Mulligan Meets Monk · Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall · The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings · Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk · Thelonious in Action · Misterioso · The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall · 5 by Monk by 5 · Thelonious Alone in San Francisco · Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk · Monk in France · Monk's Dream · Criss Cross · Monk in Tokyo · Miles & Monk at Newport · Big Band and Quartet in Concert · It's Monk's Time · Monk · Solo Monk · Live at the It Club · Live at the Jazz Workshop · Straight, No Chaser · Thelonious Monk Nonet Live In Paris 1967 · Underground · Monk's Blues
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