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)
- Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) (1965)
- 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)