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1956 studio album by Thelonious Monk
Monk
Original LP cover
Released 1956 Recorded November 13, 1953 and May 11, 1954
Genre
Jazz Length 38 :00
Label
Prestige
1958 Reid Miles artwork and title (with decorative handwriting by Julia Warhola) used on most contemporary reissues
Monk (Prestige PRLP 7053)
[3] is a 1956 compilation album by
jazz
pianist and
composer
Thelonious Monk , featuring material recorded from 1953 to 1954 for the
Prestige label and performed by Monk with two quintets, one featuring
Julius Watkins ,
Sonny Rollins ,
Percy Heath , and
Willie Jones and one featuring
Ray Copeland ,
Frank Foster ,
Curly Russell , and
Art Blakey .
[4] It was originally titled both Thelonious Monk [on its 1956 cover]
[5] and Thelonious Monk Quintets [on its labels]
[6] [
better source needed ] (PRLP 7053). Over the following decade, it was also re-released as Wee See (PRLP 7245)
[7] and The Golden Monk (PRST 7363)
[8] The most common cover art (with the Monk title), is 1958 revision, designed by
Reid Miles .
[9]
[10] [
better source needed ]
Background
Most of the recordings on this album first appeared on two 10" LPs:
Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP (Prestige PrLP 166)
[11] and
Thelonious Monk Quintet (with Frank Foster, Art Blakey) (Prestige PrLP 180),
[12] both released in 1954.
[13] (This LP release added an additional take of "Think of One.")
Chris Sheridan, in his book Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk , dates the first
12-inch vinyl release of the album—Thelonious Monk (Prestige PRLP 7053)—to 1956. Its release was preceded in the Prestige 12-inch catalog of Monk's work by
Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige PRLP 7027), and followed by
Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige PRLP 7075).
[14]
Reception
Allmusic 's
Scott Yanow states "Every Thelonious Monk recording is well worth getting although this one is not quite essential".
[15]
Track listing
All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated
Side 1
"We See" - 5:16
"
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " (
Otto Harbach ,
Jerome Kern ) - 4:34
"Locomotive" - 6:23
"Hackensack" - 5:13
Side 2
"Let's Call This" - 5:08
"Think of One" [Take 2] - 5:47
"Think of One" [Take 1] - 5:37
Notes
Personnel
References
^
Allmusic Review
^
Cook, Richard ;
Morton, Brian (2008).
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.).
Penguin . p. 1021.
ISBN
978-0-141-03401-0 .
^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk , p 295-296, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
^
Thelonious Monk discography accessed 9 October 2009
^
"Prestige Alternative Covers" , londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com Retrieved October 17, 2019 /
^
"PRESTIGE: the Complete NYC Label Reference Set (7000 – 7141)" , londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com. Retrieved October 17, 2019
^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk , p 295-296, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk , p 295-296, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
^
The Early Jazz Album Covers of Andy Warhol , accessed November 17, 2015
^
"Prestige Alternative Covers" , londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com Retrieved October 17, 2019 /
^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk , p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
^
"Five Thelonious Monk albums remastered and reissued in new 10" box set" . Thevinylfactory.com. 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-17 .
^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk , p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
^ Lankford, R. D.
Allmusic Review accessed 9 October 2009
^
"» Sessionography 1952-1954" .
^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk , p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk , p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
^
"» Sessionography 1952-1954" .