Monk's Dream (Thelonious Monk album)

Monk's Dream is the first album jazz musician Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records. It was recorded in 1962 and issued the following year.^[1]

Recording and music

"Bye-Ya" and "Bolivar Blues" were recorded on October 31, 1962; "Body and Soul" and "Bright Mississippi" on November 1; "Sweet and Lovely", "Just a Gigolo" and "Monk's Dream" on November 2; and "Five Spot Blues" on November 6.

"Bright Mississippi" is the only track on the album that Monk had not previously recorded. "Bolivar Blues" was originally titled "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are", and had been on Monk's 1957 Riverside album, Brilliant Corners. "Five Spot Blues" was originally called "Blues Five Spot" and had first appeared on the album Misterioso, which was recorded in concert at the Five Spot Cafe in New York in 1958 and released by Riverside. "Monk's Dream", "Bye-Ya", and "Sweet and Lovely" had also been previously recorded by Monk for Prestige Records at a session ten years earlier.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	^[2]
Allmusic	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]

Jazz critic Pete Welding wrote in his five-star review that appeared in the March 14, 1963 issue of Down Beat magazine (that) "This important album, Monk's first after a long absence from the recording studio, is a stunning reaffirmation of his powers as a performer and composer."^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated.

Side one

"Monk's Dream" – 6:26
"Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green) – 4:29
"Bright Mississippi" – 8:34
"Five Spot Blues" – 3:15

Side two

"Bolivar Blues" – 6:25
"Just a Gigolo" (Julius Brammer, Irving Caesar, Leonello Casucci) – 2:29
"Bye-Ya" – 6:01
"Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias, Jules LeMare) – 7:48

Personnel

Thelonious Monk – piano
Charlie Rouse – tenor sax
John Ore – bass
Frankie Dunlop – drums

References

↑ Thelonious Monk discography accessed October 2, 2012
1 2 Down Beat: March 14, 1963 Vol. 30, No.7
↑ Allmusic review
↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

2001 Columbia Reissue Liner Notes

Thelonious Monk
Discography
As leader	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 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 Thelonious Monk in Italy 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 Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 Underground Monk's Blues
As sideman	Midnight at Minton's Bird and Diz Bags' Groove Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Moving Out Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Nica's Tempo In Orbit
Compositions	"Ask Me Now" "Bemsha Swing" "Blue Monk" "Epistrophy" "In Walked Bud" "Reflections" "Rhythm-a-Ning" "'Round Midnight" "Ruby, My Dear" "Straight, No Chaser" "Well, You Needn't"
Related articles	Blue Note Sessions Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

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