List of compositions by Thelonious Monk
This is a List of Thelonious Monk Compositions, grouped by label and album.[1]
Blue Note Records
- Humph
- Thelonious
- Ruby, My Dear
- Well, You Needn't
- Off Minor
- Introspection
- In Walked Bud
- Monk's Mood
- Who Knows?
- 'Round Midnight
-Recorded 1947
- Evidence
- Misterioso
- Epistrophy
- I Mean You
-Recorded 1948
- Four In One
- Criss Cross
- Eronel
- Straight, No Chaser
- Ask Me Now
-Recorded 1951
- Hornin' In
- Skippy
- Sixteen
- Let's Cool One
-Recorded 1952
Prestige Records
- Bemsha Swing
- Reflections
- Little Rootie Tootie
- Bye-Ya
- Monk's Dream
- Trinkle, Tinkle
-Recorded 1952
- Let's Call This
- Think Of One
- Friday The 13th
-Recorded 1953
- We See
- Locomotive
- Hackensack
- Work
- Nutty
- Blue Monk
-Recorded 1954
Savoy Records (as a sideman of Gigi Gryce)
- Brake's Sake
- Shuffle Boil
- Gallop's Gallop
-Recorded in 1955 for the album Nica's Tempo
Riverside Records
- Brilliant Corners
- Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues Are (also known as Blue Bolivar Blues)
- Pannonica
-Recorded in 1956 for the album Brilliant Corners
- Functional
-Recorded in 1957 for the album Thelonious Himself
- Crepuscule With Nellie
-Recorded in 1957 for the album Monk's Music
-Recorded on Atlantic Records in 1957 for the album Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
- Light Blue
- Coming On The Hudson
-Recorded in 1958 for the album Thelonious in Action
- Played Twice
- Jackie-Ing
-Recorded in 1959 for the album 5 by Monk by 5
- Bluehawk
- Round Lights
-Recorded in 1959 for the album Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
- San Francisco Holiday (Worry Later)
-Recorded in 1960 for the album Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk
Columbia Records
- Bright Mississippi
-Recorded in 1962 for the album Monk's Dream
- Oska T.
-Recorded in 1963 for the album Big Band and Quartet in Concert
- Stuffy Turkey
-Recorded in 1964 for the album It's Monk's Time
- Teo
- Children's Song (That Old Man)
-Recorded in 1964 for the album Monk
- Monk's Point
- North of the Sunset
-Recorded in 1964 for the album Solo Monk
- Green Chimneys
-Recorded in 1967 for the album Straight, No Chaser
- Ugly Beauty
- Raise Four
- Boo Boo's Birthday
-Recorded in 1967 and 1968 for the album Underground
- Chordially
- Blue Sphere
- Something in Blue
-Recorded in 1971 for the album Something in Blue
Compositions not recorded by Monk
- 52nd Street Theme (1944)
- Two Timer (Late 1950s)
- A Merrier Christmas (1959)
References
- ^ Kelley, Robin D. G. (2009). Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Free Press. pp. 563–569. ISBN 978-0-684-83190-9. Retrieved May 5, 2014.