Solo Monk

Solo Monk
Solo Monk
Studio album by Thelonious Monk
Released	1965
Recorded	October 31, 1964 – March 2, 1965
Genre	Jazz
Length	38:05
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Down Beat	^[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]

Solo Monk is the eighth album Thelonious Monk released for Columbia Records in 1965. The album is composed entirely of solo piano work by Monk. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "This is perhaps the solo piano record to have by Monk".^[5] In addition to various vinyl and CD issues, Sony Music Enterprises issued an SACD (SRGS 4520) in Japan.

Track listing

All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated

"Dinah" [take 2] (Akst, Lewis, Young) – 2:27
"I Surrender, Dear" (Barris, Clifford) – 3:43
"Sweet And Lovely" [take 2] (Arnheim, LeMare, Tobias) – 2:58
"North Of The Sunset" – 1:50
"Ruby, My Dear" [take 3] – 5:35
"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Daugherty, Neiburg, Reynolds) – 2:36
"I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Noble) – 3:17
"Everything Happens to Me" [take 3] (Adair, Dennis) – 3:25
"Monk's Point" – 2:11
"I Should Care" (Cahn, Stordahl, Weston) – 1:56
"Ask Me Now" [take 2] – 4:35
"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Link, Marvell, Strachey) – 3:32
"Introspection" – 2:14 Bonus track on CD
"Darn That Dream" (DeLange, Van Heusen) – 3:41 Bonus track on CD
"Dinah" (Akst, Lewis, Young) – 2:25 Bonus track on CD
"Sweet and Lovely" (Arnheim, LeMare, Tobias) – 3:18 Bonus track on CD
"Ruby, My Dear" – 4:48 Bonus track on CD
"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Daugherty, Neiburg, Reynolds) – 2:44 Bonus track on CD
"I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Noble) – 3:21 Bonus track on CD
"Everything Happens to Me" (Adair, Dennis) – 5:20 Bonus track on CD
"Ask Me Now" – 3:43 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

Thelonious Monk – piano

References

^ Allmusic review
^ Down Beat: July 29, 1965 vol. 32, no. 16
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed March 23, 2009

[1] Allmusic review

[2] Down Beat: July 29, 1965 vol. 32, no. 16

[3] Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

[RSJRG-4] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[5] Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed March 23, 2009

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Discography Compositions
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 Piano Solo Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington The Unique Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Thelonious Himself Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk Monk's Music Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Mulligan Meets Monk Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings 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
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