Thelonious Monk discography

Thelonious Monk jazz pianist discography.

Discography

Blue Note Records (1948–1952)

• Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (1947 Blue Note recordings)
• Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (July 23, 1951 and May 30, 1952 Blue Note recording sessions)

Prestige Records and Vogue (1952–1954)

• Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige 7027), 1952–4
• Monk (Prestige 7053) recorded 1953-4
• Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige 7075), recorded 1953-4
• Solo 1954/Piano Solo (Disques Vogue, 1954) - first solo piano album, recorded in Paris

Riverside Records (1955–1961)

• Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)
• The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)
• Brilliant Corners (1956 recording with Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry)
• Thelonious Himself (1957)
• Monk's Music (1957)
• Mulligan Meets Monk (1957, with Gerry Mulligan)
• Thelonious in Action and Misterioso (1958, live at the Five Spot with Johnny Griffin)
• The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959, Charlie Rouse joined the band then)
• 5 by Monk by 5 (1959)
• Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959)
• Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (1960, with Charlie Rouse)
• Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1957 recordings, 1961 issue) – Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.
• Monk in France (recorded in 1961)
• Thelonious Monk in Italy (recorded 1961, released 1963)
• Thelonious Monk Quartet Live at the Five Spot: Discovery! (with Coltrane recorded 1957, released in 1993 on Blue Note)
• Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (1957, released 2005 on Blue Note.)
• The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2006 collection of the 1957 studio recordings with Coltrane)

Columbia Records (1962–1968)

• Monk's Dream (1963)
• Criss-Cross (1963)
• Monk in Tokyo (1963)
• Miles & Monk at Newport (1963, with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance)
• Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963)
• It's Monk's Time (1964)
• Monk (1964)
• Solo Monk (1964)
• Live at the It Club (1964)
• Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
• Straight, No Chaser (1967)
• Underground (1968)
• Monk's Blues (1968)

Far East Records (1970)

• Monk in Tokyo (1970, live, with Paul Jeffrey ts, Larry Ridley b, Lenny McBrowne d)

Black Lion Records (1971)

• Something in Blue, Nice Work in London, Blue Sphere and The Man I Love (all 1971 recordings, collected in The London Collection 1988, three individual CDs)

As sideman

With Art Blakey

• Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Atlantic, 1958)
• The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic, 1971)

With Miles Davis

• Bags' Groove (Prestige, 1954)
• Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (Prestige, 1954)

With Coleman Hawkins

• Bean and the Boys (Prestige, 1944)

With Milt Jackson

• Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note, 1948)

With Sonny Rollins

• Moving Out (Prestige, 1954)
• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957)

With Gigi Gryce

• Nica's Tempo (Savoy, 1955)

With Clark Terry

• In Orbit (Riverside, 1958)

Compilations

• Monk's Miracles (1966)
• Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 (France Concert LP FC-113, 1967)
• Monk's Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1968)
• Midnight at Minton's (c.1941, issued 1973 under Don Byas' name. Monk does not play on all tracks of this or the other two CDs of 1941 material)
• After Hours (c.1941, issued 1973 under Charlie Christian's name)
• After Hours in Harlem (c.1941, issued 1973 under Hot Lips Page's name)
• April in Paris (1981 2-LP set of the April 18, 1961 Paris recordings)
• Monk's Classic Recordings (1983)
• Blues Five Spot (1984, unissued recordings from 1958–61, with various saxophonists and Thad Jones, cornet)
• The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1991, 15 CD, Riverside)
• The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1994, 4 CD, Blue Note)
• Live at Monterey Jazz Festival '63 (sept. 21–2, 1963, MFSL, 2 vols. issued 1996-7)
• Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 (1998, 2 CD, Sony)
• The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk (2000, 3 CD, Prestige)
• The Columbia Years: '62–'68 (2001, 3 CD, Sony)
• The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions (1954–71) (3LP, Mosaic)
• All Monk. The Riverside Albums (2010, 16 CD, Universal)
• The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (2012, 6 CD, Sony)