Thelonious Monk

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'Round Midnight 03:50 Tools
Ruby, My Dear 05:42 Tools
Blue Monk 02:24 Tools
Epistrophy 03:10 Tools
Straight, No Chaser 11:29 Tools
Brilliant Corners 07:45 Tools
Evidence 06:46 Tools
Pannonica 09:05 Tools
Monk's Mood 07:53 Tools
Bemsha Swing 04:27 Tools
In Walked Bud 04:18 Tools
Bye-Ya 06:32 Tools
Monk's Dream - Take 8 06:28 Tools
Off Minor 05:17 Tools
Thelonious 11:29 Tools
April in Paris 07:55 Tools
Body and Soul 04:29 Tools
Well You Needn't 11:24 Tools
Nutty 05:27 Tools
Just a Gigolo 02:29 Tools
I Surrender, Dear 03:48 Tools
Misterioso 03:24 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie 04:28 Tools
Sweet And Lovely 00:00 Tools
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are 13:26 Tools
Ask Me Now 03:17 Tools
Reflections 05:11 Tools
Straight No Chaser 11:29 Tools
Monk's Dream 06:29 Tools
Ruby My Dear 05:42 Tools
Eronel 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-a-ning 03:58 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It 04:03 Tools
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) 00:00 Tools
Let's Cool One 00:00 Tools
Bright Mississippi 08:37 Tools
I Mean You 02:49 Tools
Introspection 03:14 Tools
Locomotive 00:00 Tools
I Should Care 03:16 Tools
Humph 02:55 Tools
Hackensack 04:15 Tools
Trinkle, Tinkle 00:00 Tools
Round Midnight 03:50 Tools
Suburban Eyes 03:02 Tools
Five Spot Blues 00:00 Tools
We See 00:00 Tools
Four In One 00:00 Tools
Evonce 03:04 Tools
Caravan 05:57 Tools
Functional 00:00 Tools
Abide With Me 00:00 Tools
Blues Five Spot 03:17 Tools
Green Chimneys 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight - 1998 Digital Remaster 03:11 Tools
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 03:26 Tools
Everything Happens to Me 03:32 Tools
Tea for Two 00:00 Tools
Skippy 00:00 Tools
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 00:00 Tools
Black and Tan Fantasy 00:00 Tools
Ugly Beauty 00:00 Tools
Monk's Point 00:00 Tools
Dinah (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Jackie-Ing 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 09:29 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Darn That Dream 00:00 Tools
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 00:00 Tools
Little Rootie Tootie 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
North Of The Sunset 00:00 Tools
Round Lights 00:00 Tools
Memories of You 00:00 Tools
I Hadn't Anyone Till You 00:00 Tools
Who Knows 00:00 Tools
Bluehawk 00:00 Tools
Think of One 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep for Me 03:01 Tools
'Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Dinah 00:00 Tools
Everything Happens To Me (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Raise Four 00:00 Tools
Easy Street 00:00 Tools
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Hornin' In 00:00 Tools
Just You, Just Me 00:00 Tools
Carolina Moon 00:00 Tools
Bolivar Blues 00:00 Tools
Remember 00:00 Tools
Coming On the Hudson 00:00 Tools
This Is My Story, This Is My Song 00:00 Tools
Let’s Cool One 03:49 Tools
All The Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Sweet And Lovely (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Thelonius 00:00 Tools
Argentia 06:16 Tools
Bright Mississippi - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Trinkle Tinkle 00:00 Tools
Friday the 13th 00:00 Tools
I'll Follow You 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - 1998 - Remaster 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Light Blue 00:00 Tools
Off Minor (Take 5) 00:00 Tools
You Are Too Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Criss-Cross 00:00 Tools
Evonce (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Dinah (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Let's Call This 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You 00:00 Tools
April In Paris (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolivar Blues - Take 2 00:00 Tools
Stuffy Turkey 00:00 Tools
Japanese Folk Song (Kojo No Tsuki) 16:42 Tools
All Alone 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Mysterioso 00:00 Tools
Japanese Folk Song 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream (Take 8) 00:00 Tools
Work 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Sweet And Lovely (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
Boo Boo's Birthday 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream - Take 3 00:00 Tools
Body & Soul 00:00 Tools
I Surrender Dear 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Theme) 00:00 Tools
I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Lulu's Back In Town 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolivar Blues - Take 1 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 00:00 Tools
Played Twice 00:00 Tools
Consecutive Seconds 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Just A Glance At Love 00:00 Tools
Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 11) 00:00 Tools
I Want To Be Happy 00:00 Tools
Blue Sphere 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
My Melancholy Baby 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 6) 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Teo 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Take 4 00:00 Tools
Rootie Tootie 00:00 Tools
Ugly Beauty (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolivar Blues 00:00 Tools
I Mean You - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 02:48 Tools
Bright Mississippi - Take 3 00:00 Tools
Skippy (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Brake's Sake 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Thelonious (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
(When It's) Darkness On The Delta 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolivar Blues (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You [Take 4] 00:00 Tools
Sixteen (First Take) 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 00:00 Tools
Sixteen (Second Take) 00:00 Tools
Four In One (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;1998 - Remaster 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (Remake Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Rythm-A-Ning 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Who Knows (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Humph - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
(I Don't Stand) a Ghost of a Chance With You 00:00 Tools
Trinkle, Trinkle 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolivar Blues (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Bright Mississippi (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me (Retake 1) 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 07:33 Tools
Memories Of You (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Hornin' In (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Sweet & Lovely 00:00 Tools
Bright Mississippi - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
One Foot In the Gutter 00:00 Tools
Shuffle Boil (Retake) 00:00 Tools
Light Blue - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
This is My Story, This Is My Song (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Misterioso (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
North Of The Sunset (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Moonlight Fiesta 00:00 Tools
Thelonious - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Sixteen 00:00 Tools
Tea For Two (Take 9) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You 00:00 Tools
Blues for Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
You're a Lucky Guy 00:00 Tools
Children's Song (That Old Man) 00:00 Tools
Flyin' Hawk 00:00 Tools
Ugly Beauty (Take 5) 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me (Remake Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Darn That Dream (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Thelonious (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
I Love You (Sweetheart Of All My Dreams) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (In Progress) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
Trust In Me 00:00 Tools
Think Of One (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Everything Happens To Me (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Unidentified Solo Piano 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Don’t Blame Me - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
Shuffle Boil (Take 5) 00:00 Tools
I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
Evonce - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy 00:00 Tools
Eronel (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Coming On The Hudson (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
I Found a Million Dollar Baby 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (Remake Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 00:00 Tools
April In Paris (Take 6) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Take 5 00:00 Tools
Bright Mississippi - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969/Reprise 00:00 Tools
There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Down, Down, Down 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good Enough) 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Nice Work 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood (false start) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Incomplete.) 00:00 Tools
Very Near Blue 00:00 Tools
Portrait of an Ermite 00:00 Tools
Bag's Groove 00:00 Tools
I've Found a New Baby 00:00 Tools
Monk's Point (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Introspection (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Manganese 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
In Orbit 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Round Midnight (1947) 00:00 Tools
Nutty - Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969 00:00 Tools
On the Bean 00:00 Tools
Straight No Chaser (1998 - Remaster) [Rudy Van Gelder Edition] 00:00 Tools
Crepescule With Nellie 00:00 Tools
Something In Blue 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Just a Gigolo (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul (Re-take 2) 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Liza 00:00 Tools
Drifting on a Reed 00:00 Tools
Indiana 00:00 Tools
Green Chimneys [Previously Unissued] 00:00 Tools
Dinah (Take 2) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
I Walked Bud 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - Live 00:00 Tools
Buck's Business 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You [Previously Unissued - Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Humph - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) [Take 3] 00:00 Tools
Hackensack - RVG Remaster 00:00 Tools
Sixteen (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Holiday 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You - Take 4 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 4 And 5) 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning - Live 00:00 Tools
Introspection (take 4) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Pea Eye 00:00 Tools
Dinah [Take 2] 00:00 Tools
I Love You Sweetheart of All My Dreams (take 2) 00:00 Tools
Misterioso (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Solo Blues Piano 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (Re-take 2) 00:00 Tools
April In Paris (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Recollections 00:00 Tools
Epostrophy 3-07 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Thelonious - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Live) 00:00 Tools
Introspection - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Monks Mood 00:00 Tools
Bemsha Swing (Live) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - Short version 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn’t 00:00 Tools
Evonce [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear [Take 3] 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now (take 3) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream [Take 8] 00:00 Tools
Pannonica - Incomplete 00:00 Tools
Green Chimney's 00:00 Tools
'Round Mindnight 00:00 Tools
Think Of One (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Purple Shades 00:00 Tools
Evance 00:00 Tools
Functional - Alternate Take 1 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
I Hadn't Anyone Till You [Take 4] 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (Incomplete) 00:00 Tools
Nutty 6-35 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (takes 4 and 5) 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams [Take 2] 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Medley: Just You, Just Me / Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 00:00 Tools
Well You Need'nt 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight - In Progress 00:00 Tools
Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Bye Ya 00:00 Tools
Evonce - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Eronol 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Flugelin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
Decidedly (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Bemsha Swing - Live 00:00 Tools
Worry Later 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Gallop's Gallop 00:00 Tools
There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie - take 1 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul [Re-Take 2] 00:00 Tools
April In Paris [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now - 1998 Digital Remaster;Rudy Van Gelder Edition 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie - Take 6 / Mono 00:00 Tools
Children's Song 00:00 Tools
I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You 05:45 Tools
Everything Happens to Me (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now [Take 2] 00:00 Tools
Thelonious (complete version) 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-a-Ning (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Little Rootie Tootie (encore) 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (with John Coltrane) 00:00 Tools
Sixteen [Second Take] 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolivar Blues [Take 2] 00:00 Tools
Four In One - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Pannonica - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser (Live) 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - Take 6 00:00 Tools
'Black And Tan Fantasy' 00:00 Tools
Six in One 00:00 Tools
Skippy [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1998 - Remaster) 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know 00:00 Tools
Functional - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Caravan' 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear (Alternate Take) (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Played Twice (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (with Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Live) 09:01 Tools
Evonce - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Bemsha Swing - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
Everything Happens To Me [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Justice) - Live [Tokyo] 07:52 Tools
Pannonica - Opening (Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (1957) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Incomplete) 00:00 Tools
Evonce - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Hornin' In [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Nutty (Live) 00:00 Tools
Just a Gigolo - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
Humph - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Thelonious - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
I Surrender, Dear (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (take4) 00:00 Tools
Misterioso - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Misterioso (Live) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Closing Theme) 00:00 Tools
(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance (With You) 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't (Live) 00:00 Tools
Crepuscle With Nellie 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie - Breakdown (Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You ) 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Little Rootie-Tootie 00:00 Tools
Played Twice (Take 1 - 2nd Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Complete) 00:00 Tools
Four In One - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Album Version - (take 4) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - Live [Tokyo], Reprise 00:00 Tools
Dinah (Take 1) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Decidedly (Take 5, Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It [Take 3] 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Take 1, Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Jackie-ing - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Alternate Take) 05:31 Tools
Friday the Thirteenth 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (take 3) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Take 5 - Previously issued only in Italy) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - fragment 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You - Take 00:00 Tools
Played Twice (Take 2 - Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Five Spot Blues (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Take 7 - Originally Issued) 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (Take 3 - Originally Issued) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
'round Midnight (Take 7 - Originally Issued) 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (feat. Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser (Take 1, Alternate) 00:00 Tools
I Should Care - Rudy Van Gelder Edition 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (Take 1 - Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Remastered) 03:05 Tools
02 - Body and Soul 00:00 Tools
Straight No Chaser - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream [Take 3] 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Sentimental over You - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (Live) 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (take 7) 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (Take 2 - Previously Issued Only In Italy) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood - false start (previously unissued) 00:00 Tools
Shuffle Boil 00:00 Tools
Loverman 00:00 Tools
I Mean You - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Breakdown) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work (If You Can Get It) - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Sixteen [First Take] 00:00 Tools
Hornin In' (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
I Love You Sweetheart of All My Dreams 00:00 Tools
Everything Happens To Me (Retake 1) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight - 2007 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Four In One - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
We See - RVG Remaster 00:00 Tools
Evonce - Alternate Take;Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Wee See 00:00 Tools
Functional (Take 1 - alternate) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood (Live At Carnegie Hall) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Bemesha Swing 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Holiday (Take 2 - Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Four In One (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Functional (Take 2 - Originally Issued) 00:00 Tools
Played Twice (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Stand A Ghost of a Chance With You (take 5) 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
04 - Five Spot Blues 00:00 Tools
Hornin'in 00:00 Tools
Misterioso - Live 00:00 Tools
Evonce (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Evonce (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (take 1) 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Announcement 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Eronel - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes - Alternate Take;Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Bye-Ya (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
52nd Street Theme 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Epistropy 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 1 On June 25 - Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Take 2, Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica - Re-take 2 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Live) 04:06 Tools
Well You Needn't - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Hackensack - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
April In Paris (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (Live) 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud / Epistrophy (theme) 00:00 Tools
Ugly Beauty (Rehearsal) (Live) 00:00 Tools
Played Twice (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Holiday (Worry Later) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor (take 4 - Alternate) 00:00 Tools
(Just One Way To Say) I Love Y 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Justice) 07:52 Tools
Skippy - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser (Take 1 - alternate) 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Holiday (Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Misterioso - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Little Rootie Tootie - Encore 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser (Take 3 - originally issued) 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Let's Cool One - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Take 1 - alternate) 00:00 Tools
Humph - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
Just You, Just Me (Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Evidence (previously unissued) 10:16 Tools
Well You Needn't (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
07 - Bye-Ya 00:00 Tools
Off Minor (take 5 - Originally Issued) 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (take 6 - Originally Issued) 00:00 Tools
Song of India 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me [Remake Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Hornin' In - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Hornin' In - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Jackie-Ing (Live) 00:00 Tools
Carolina Moon - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
Introspection - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Nice Work of You Can Get It 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
'round Midnight (Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning - Take 2 00:00 Tools
Evidence - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Skippy - alternate take 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser - Live 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie - Takes 4 & 5 00:00 Tools
Bright Mississippi [Take 3] 00:00 Tools
Four In One (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud/Epistrophy (Theme) 00:00 Tools
Thelonious - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Decidedly 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream [Take 3/*] 00:00 Tools
Jackieing 00:00 Tools
Pea-eye 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of An Ermite (Reflections) 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Decidedly (Take 4 - originally issued stereo take) 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Take 4 - originally issued) 00:00 Tools
I should care (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Flugelin’ the Blues 00:00 Tools
I Should Care [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Who Knows (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Holiday (Worry Later) (take 3) 00:00 Tools
Trinkle-Tinkle (Live) 00:00 Tools
Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Four In One (Live) 00:00 Tools
Misterioso (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica - Take 2 00:00 Tools
April in Paris (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Theme - #2) 00:00 Tools
Skippy - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning (Live) 00:00 Tools
Decidedly (Take 5 - originally issued monaural take) 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Takes 4/5 - Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul [Take 1/*] 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk (live at Carnegie hall) 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolivar Blues [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Take 2 - alternate) 00:00 Tools
Sweet And Lovely (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Bye-Ya / Epistrophy (theme) (previously unissued) 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't (Live) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (Solo Piano) 00:00 Tools
Criss-Cross [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Four in One [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington: I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good 00:00 Tools
Envoce 00:00 Tools
Blues For Tomorrow (First Stereo Release) 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me (Live) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - Live [Tokyo] 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy [Stereo] 00:00 Tools
Four in one (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Swing Spring 00:00 Tools
Evonce - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Bloomdido 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Alternate Take;Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Played Twice (Take 3 - Originally Issued) 00:00 Tools
Light Blue (Live) 00:00 Tools
Played Twice (Live) 00:00 Tools
Who Knows (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Sixteen - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Introduction by André Francis 00:00 Tools
I Mean You - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work (If You Can Get It) - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
April In Paris Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Misterioso [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Mohawk 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - Alternate Take;Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Short version) 00:00 Tools
I Surrender, Dear [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Bar-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are 00:00 Tools
Misterioso - 1988 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
I Should Care [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud / Epistrophy 00:00 Tools
Just A Gigolo (Live) 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't - Alternate Take;Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Hackensack (Live) 00:00 Tools
Oska T. 00:00 Tools
Trinkle Tinkle (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor [Stereo] 00:00 Tools
Introspection (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Takes 4 & 5) 00:00 Tools
Bright Mississippi [Take 3/*] 00:00 Tools
Misterioso - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Pannonica - solo 1 00:00 Tools
Monk's Point [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - 1988 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Skippy (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Carolina Moon - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Stickball) (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Functional (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Let's Cool One - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolivar Blues [Take 1/*] 00:00 Tools
Oska T. (live) 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie - Take 1 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Sixteen - first take 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - Alternate Take;Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
It Dont Mean A Thing 00:00 Tools
Bright Mississippi (Live) 00:00 Tools
By And By (We'll Understand It Better By And By) 00:00 Tools
Let's Call This (Live) 00:00 Tools
Think Of One - Take 2 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - DI 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn'T Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' 00:00 Tools
Hornin' In (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Manganèse (We See) 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't - Opening (Previously Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now (1998 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
I'll Follow You - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Dinah (Take 2) (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Trinkle Tinkle (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Sweetheart of All My Dreams 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Introspection - Remastered 2013 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are (live) 00:00 Tools
Envoce (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work of You Can Get It (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Thelonious (live) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Fragment) 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross - alternate take 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear - with Coleman Hawkins 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud (Powell I Assume) 00:00 Tools
(When It's) Darkness On The Delta (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (incomplete - opening chorus only) 00:00 Tools
Round Midnight (Live) 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk - Live 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (1957) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight - Live at Salle Pleyel 1954 00:00 Tools
Skippy (Alterante Take) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't (opening) 00:00 Tools
Just A Gigalo 00:00 Tools
All The Things You Are - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Sixteen Second Take 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Pannonica - Solo 2 00:00 Tools
Just a Gigilo 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (Alternate Take) (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I Should Care - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Pannonica - Quartet 00:00 Tools
Evonce - Alternate Take/Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering/2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie [Take 6] 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning - Live In Milan 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (Quartet) 00:00 Tools
Ugly Beauty (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear (Remastered 2013) 00:00 Tools
I Should Care - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Sweetheart Of All My Dreams (Live) 00:00 Tools
Memories Of You (Live) 00:00 Tools
Sixteen First Take 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now [Take 3] 00:00 Tools
Round About Midnight (11-21-47) 00:00 Tools
Dinah [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Ask me now (1) (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - Album Version - (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor [Take 4] 00:00 Tools
Eronel - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Who Knows Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Evidence - Live 00:00 Tools
Monk´s Mood 00:00 Tools
Bye-Ya / Epistrophy (Theme) 00:00 Tools
Trinkle Tinkle (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight - Take 2 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? - Alternate Take;Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering;1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Evidence/Rhythm-A-Ning (live) 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes - Alternate Take/Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering/2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Evonce Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy [theme] (live) 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Medley: Just You, Just Me/Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 00:00 Tools
Just You, Just Me (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep for Me - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Think Of One - Take 1 00:00 Tools
I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You (Live) 05:45 Tools
Lover Man 00:00 Tools
'Round About Midnight (Live) 00:00 Tools
Blues Five Spot (Live) 00:00 Tools
Sixteen - Second Take 00:00 Tools
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - RVG Remaster 00:00 Tools
There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie (Take 1 - Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Evidence / Rhythm-A-Ning 00:00 Tools
Bag's Groove (With Miles Davis) 00:00 Tools
Trinkle Tinkle (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Bye-Ya (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hornin' In - alternate take 00:00 Tools
Lulu Revenue Dans La Village (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (opening) 00:00 Tools
(I Love You, I Love You) Sweetheart of All My Dreams 00:00 Tools
Bemsha Swing [Live] 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't - Live at Salle Pleyel 1954 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Just A Gigolo (Solo Piano) 00:00 Tools
Everything Happens to Me (Take 3) - Short Version 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Bright Mississippi (reprise) 00:00 Tools
I Mean You - 1988 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Hackensack - Live 00:00 Tools
Off Minor (DI) 00:00 Tools
(Just One Way to Say) I Love You 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't - Alternate Take/Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering/2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross (alt tk) 00:00 Tools
Recollections (Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
This Little Light of Mine 00:00 Tools
I don't Stand a Ghost Of a Chance 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Mysterioso (live) 00:00 Tools
There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie (Take 2 - Originally Issued) 00:00 Tools
Drifting on a Reed (Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Introspection - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (take 7) 00:00 Tools
I Hadn't Anyone Till You [Take 2] 00:00 Tools
Introspection (previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Rhythm - A - Ning 00:00 Tools
Leap Frog 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross - Remastered 1998 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (Remastered 2013) 00:00 Tools
Relaxin' With Lee 00:00 Tools
Mysterioso - Remastered, Part 2 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud - Rudy Van Gelder Edition / Remastered 1998 00:00 Tools
Functional (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Complete) (Live) 00:00 Tools
Bags' groove 00:00 Tools
Nutty (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Live At Carnegie Hall) 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud - Live At Town Hall, New York 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross (Live) 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning - Alternate 00:00 Tools
April In Paris (10-24-47) 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Justice) (live) 00:00 Tools
I Want to be Happy (with Sonny Rollins) 07:44 Tools
Smoke Get's In Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Theme) (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ruby My dear (1947) 00:00 Tools
Thelonious (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love (With Miles Davis) 00:00 Tools
Bemsha Swing (With Miles Davis) 00:00 Tools
Anthropology 00:00 Tools
On the Bean (Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You [Take 1][#][*] 00:00 Tools
Hackensack / Epistrophy - Live at Salle Pleyel 1954 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud - Live At Town Hall, New York, USA / 1959 00:00 Tools
I Don't Mean a Thing If Ain't Got That Swing - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Straight No Chaser (Remastered 2013) 00:00 Tools
Played Twice - Take 3 00:00 Tools
It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me - Live 00:00 Tools
The Way you Look Tonight (With Sonny Rollins) 00:00 Tools
More Than you Know (With Sonny Rollins) 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood (11-21-47) 00:00 Tools
Locomotive - RVG Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - Alternate Take/Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering/2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Light Blue (Live At the Five Spot, New York, August 7, 1958) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica - live 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Misterioso [Live] 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy [Live] 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Live at Salle Pleyel 1954 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Reflections (Take 6) 00:00 Tools
Light Blue - Live 00:00 Tools
Humph (10-15-47) 00:00 Tools
By and By (We’ll Understand It Better By and By) 00:00 Tools
Ugly Beauty (Rehearsal) 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington: It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
Swing Spring (With Miles Davis) 00:00 Tools
Friday the 13th (with Sonny Rollins) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (1988 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - Alternate Take/Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering/2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Bag's Groove (Take 2) (With Miles Davis) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Alternate Take/Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering/2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of An Eremite 00:00 Tools
Let's Call This - RVG Remaster 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? - Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (Incomplete) - Live at Salle Pleyel 1954 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Eronel - 1998 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't - Live [It Club] 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Mysterioso - Remastered, Part 3 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk - Live [It Club] 00:00 Tools
We See - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington: Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Alternate Take) (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Trinkle Trinkle 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me - 1998 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Japanese Folk Song (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Thelonius Monk & Gerry Mulligan - 'Round Midnight 08:25 Tools
Trinkle Trinkle (take three) 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning - Live At Town Hall, New York, USA / 1961 00:00 Tools
Played Twice - Take 1 00:00 Tools
`Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
I Surrender, Dear (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? - Alternate Take/Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering/1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Hackensack (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Abide With Me [take 1] 00:00 Tools
April In Paris (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't [Live] 00:00 Tools
Around About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk - Live At Town Hall, New York, USA / 1959 00:00 Tools
Jackie-ing - Live 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love (Take 2) (With Miles Davis) 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes - Remastered, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning - Live At Town Hall, New York 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
I Mean You - Live [Lincoln Center] 00:00 Tools
Coming On the Hudson (Live At the Five Spot, New York, August 7, 1958) 00:00 Tools
Think Of One [Take 2] - RVG Remaster 00:00 Tools
Bye-Ya - Live [Lincoln Center] 00:00 Tools
Everything Happens To Me (Take 3) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
April In Paris (Alternate Take) (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work (If You Can Get It) 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk - Live At Town Hall, New York 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-a-Ning (Live At the Five Spot, New York, August 7, 1958) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (Incomplete - Opening Chorus Only) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (2007 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington: Black And Tan Fantasy 00:00 Tools
Evidence - Remastered, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk [Live] 00:00 Tools
Functional - Album Version - (alternate take 1) 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't (Alternate Take) (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight - Live [It Club] 00:00 Tools
Locomotive - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
I Wan't to Be Happy 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight (1947) 00:00 Tools
Played Twice - Take 2 00:00 Tools
Crepuscle With Nellie - Re-take 6 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning / Epistrophy (Theme) 00:00 Tools
Think of One [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Ba Lu Bolivar Ba Lues Are 00:00 Tools
Four In One - 1988 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Little Rootie Tootie - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Chordially (Improvisation) 00:00 Tools
Underground (HD) 00:00 Tools
Evonce [Alternate] 00:00 Tools
Just a Gigolo (Live At the Five Spot, New York, August 7, 1958) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor - Remastered, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Theme #2) 00:00 Tools
Locomotive (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Just a Gigolo - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
I Mean You - Live 00:00 Tools
‘Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (feat. John Coltrane) 00:00 Tools
Sweet And Lovely (Take 2) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Humph (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Misterioso - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream (Original Trio Version, 1952) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Flying Over the Sea - Gotan Project, Chet Baker Version 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Who Knows? (Alternate Take) (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Think Of One [Take 1] - RVG Remaster 00:00 Tools
Introspection [Take 3] 00:00 Tools
Evidence - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Hackensack (Take Two) 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins: Work 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins: The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear (feat. Coleman Hawkins & Art Blakey) 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Light Blue (Making Of) 00:00 Tools
Coming On The Hudson - Take 3 00:00 Tools
Hackensack - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk (Live At the Five Spot, New York, August 7, 1958) 00:00 Tools
An Oscar for Treadwell 00:00 Tools
Evonce (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
´Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy [incomplete] 00:00 Tools
Evonce (10-15-47) 00:00 Tools
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Bolivar Blues (take 2) 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk (feat. Percy Heath & Art Blakey) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It [Alternate] 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington: Caravan 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Evidence - Live [Lincoln Center] 00:00 Tools
Thelonious Monk 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy (Remastered 2013) 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering) (1998 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Ghost of a chance 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
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Ruby My Dear (Alternate Take/Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering/2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Suburban Eyes [Alternate] 00:00 Tools
April In Paris [Alternate] 00:00 Tools
April in Paris - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't (10-24-47) 00:00 Tools
Chordially 00:00 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie (Edited Re-Take 6) 00:00 Tools
(When It's) Darkness on the Delta - Live [Lincoln Center] 00:00 Tools
Played Twice - Live [Lincoln Center] 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me - Live [The Jazz Workshop], 1982 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Holiday - Live At The Blackhawk, San Francisco, USA / 1960 / Take 2 00:00 Tools
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Thelonious Sphere Monk (Rocky Mount, North Carolina 10th October 1917 - Hartsdale, New York 17th February 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. Widely considered as one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only five jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy," "'Round Midnight," "Blue Monk," "Straight No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't." He could play be-bop but commented that be-bop "sounds like dixieland to me." His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are impossible to separate from Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations; a style nicknamed "Melodious Thunk" by his wife Nellie. Early life Monk was born 10th October 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk, two years after his sister Marian. A brother, Thomas, was born a couple of years later. In 1922, the family moved to 243 West 63rd Street, in Manhattan. Monk started playing the piano at the age of six. Although he had some formal training and eavesdropped on his sister's piano lessons, he was essentially self-taught. Monk attended Stuyvesant High School, but did not graduate. He briefly toured with an evangelist in his teens, playing the church organ, and in his late teens he began to find work playing jazz. Monk is believed to be the pianist featured on recordings Jerry Newman made around 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, the legendary Manhattan club where Monk was the house pianist. Monk's style at the time was described as "hard-swinging," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monk's stated influences include Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and other early stride pianists. Monk's unique piano style was largely perfected during his stint as the house pianist at Minton's in the early-to-mid 1940s, when he participated in the famous after-hours "cutting competitions" that featured most of the leading jazz soloists of the day. The Minton's scene was crucial in the formulation of the bebop genre and it brought Monk into close contact and collaboration with other leading exponents of bebop, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker and later, Miles Davis. Early recordings (1944–1954) In 1944 Monk made his first studio recordings with the Coleman Hawkins Quartet. Hawkins was among the first prominent jazz musicians to promote Monk, and Monk later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on the 1957 session with John Coltrane. Monk made his first recordings as leader for Blue Note in 1947 (later anthologised on Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1) which showcased his talents as a composer of original melodies for improvisation. Monk married Nellie Smith the same year, and in 1949 the couple had a son, T.S. Monk, who later became a jazz drummer. A daughter, Barbara (affectionately known as Boo-Boo), was born in 1953. In August 1951, New York City police searched a parked car occupied by Monk and friend Bud Powell. The police found narcotics in the car, presumed to have belonged to Powell. Monk refused to testify against his friend, so the police confiscated his New York City Cabaret Card. Without the all-important cabaret card he was unable to play in any New York venue where liquor was served, and this severely restricted his ability to perform for several crucial years. Monk spent most of the early and mid-1950s composing, recording, and performing at theaters and out-of-town gigs. After his cycle of intermittent recording sessions for Blue Note during 1947–1952, he was under contract to Prestige Records for the following two years. With Prestige he cut several under-recognized, but highly significant albums, including collaborations with saxophonist Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Blakey. In 1954, Monk participated in the famed Christmas Eve sessions which produced the albums Bags' Groove and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants by Miles Davis. Davis found Monk's idiosyncratic accompaniment style difficult to improvise over and asked him to lay out (not accompany), which almost brought them to blows. However, in Miles Davis' autobiography Miles, Davis claims that the anger and tension between Monk and himself never took place and that the claims of blows being exchanged were "rumors" and a "misunderstanding." In 1954, Monk paid his first visit to Europe, performing and recording in Paris. It was here that he first met Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter, a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and a patroness of several New York City jazz musicians. She would be a close friend for the rest of Monk's life. Riverside Records (1954–1961) At the time of his signing to Riverside, Monk was highly regarded by his peers and by some critics, but his records did not sell in significant numbers, and his music was still regarded as too "difficult" for mass-market acceptance. Indeed, with Monk's consent, Riverside had managed to buy out his previous Prestige contract for a mere $108.24. His breakthrough came thanks to a compromise between Monk and the label, which convinced him to record two albums of his interpretations of jazz standards. His debut for Riverside, which featured bass innovator Oscar Pettiford, was built around Monk's distinctive interpretations of selection of well-known pieces by Duke Ellington, including "Caravan" and "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". The resulting LP, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, was designed to bring Monk to a wider audience, and pave the way for a broader acceptance of his unique style. According to recording producer Orrin Keepnews, Monk appeared unfamiliar with the Ellington tunes and spent a long time reading the sheet music and picking the melodies out on the piano keys. Given Monk's long history of playing, it seems unlikely that he didn't know Ellington's music, and it has been surmised that Monk's seeming ignorance of the material was a manifestation of his typically perverse humor, combined with an unstated reluctance to prove his own musical competency by playing other composers' works (even at this late date, there were still critics who carped that Monk "couldn't play"). Finally, on the 1956 LP Brilliant Corners, Monk was able to record his own music. The complex title track, which featured tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was so difficult to play that the final version had to be edited together from three separate takes. The album, however, was largely regarded as the first success for Monk; according to Orrin Keepnews, "It was the first that made a real splash." After having his cabaret card restored, Monk relaunched his New York career with a landmark six-month residency at the Five Spot Cafe in New York beginning in June 1957, leading a quartet that included John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums. Unfortunately little of this group's music was documented, apparently because of contractual problems, Coltrane signed to Prestige at the time. One studio session was made by Riverside but only later released on Jazzland; an amateur tape from the Five Spot (not the original residency, it seems, but a later 1958 reunion) was uncovered in the 1990s and issued on Blue Note. On November 29 that year the quartet performed at Carnegie Hall and the concert was recorded in high fidelity by the Voice of America broadcasting service. The long-lost tape of that concert was rediscovered in the collection of the Library of Congress in January 2005. In 1958 Johnny Griffin took Coltrane's place as tenor player in Monk's band. In 1958, Monk and de Koenigswarter were detained by police in Wilmington, Delaware. When Monk refused to answer the policemen's questions or cooperate with them, they beat him with a blackjack. Though the police were authorized to search the vehicle and found narcotics in suitcases held in the trunk of the Baroness's car, Judge Christie of the Delaware Superior Court ruled that the unlawful detention of the pair, and the beating of Monk, rendered the consent to the search void as given under duress. State v. De Koenigswarter, 177 A.2d 344 (Del. Super. 1962). Monk was represented by Theophilus Nix, the second African-American member of the Delaware Bar Association. Columbia Records (1962–1970) In 1962, Monk signed to Columbia Records, one of the big four American record labels of the day along with RCA Victor, Capitol, and Decca. He had not recorded a studio album since 5 By Monk By 5 in June of 1959, a year that had seen the dual innovations of free jazz by Ornette Coleman, and modal jazz by Miles Davis via his landmark LP on Columbia, Kind of Blue, enter the jazz world. Monk jumped ship to Columbia as he ran out his contract to Riverside via a series of live albums, working with producer Teo Macero on his debut for the label.[3] Featuring a stable line-up that had been with him for two years, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist John Ore, and drummer Frankie Dunlop, sessions in the first week of November yielded the Columbia debut released in 1963, Monk's Dream. The resources at Columbia allowed Monk to be promoted more widely than earlier in his career. Monk's Dream would remain the best-selling LP of his lifetime, and on February 28, 1964, Monk appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and was featured in the article, "The Loneliest Monk". He continued to record a number of well-reviewed studio albums, particularly the debut, Criss Cross also from 1963, and Underground from 1968. But by the Columbia period his compositional output was much reduced, and only his final Columbia studio record Underground featured a substantial number of new tunes, including his only waltz time piece, "Ugly Beauty." As had been the case with Riverside, his period with Columbia Records contains many live albums, including Miles and Monk at Newport from 1963, Live at the It Club and Live at the Jazz Workshop, both from 1964 with the latter relased in 1982. After the departure of Ore and Dunlop, the rhythm section of Monk's quartet during the bulk of his Columbia period was rounded out by Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, both of whom joined in 1964 and would, along with Rouse, be his longest-serving band for over four years. Later life Monk had disappeared from the scene by the mid-1970s, and made only a small number of appearances during the final decade of his life. His last studio recordings were completed in November 1971, near the end of a worldwide tour with "The Giants of Jazz", which also included Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey, Kai Winding and Al McKibbon.Monk's manner was idiosyncratic. Visually, he was renowned for his distinctively "hip" sartorial style in suits, hats and sunglasses, and he developed an unusual, highly syncopated and percussive manner of playing piano. He was also noted for the fact that at times he would stop playing, stand up from the keyboard and dance while turning in a clockwise fashion, ring-shout style, while the other musicians in the combo played. Bassist Al McKibbon, who had known Monk for over twenty years and played on his final tour in 1971, later said: "On that tour Monk said about two words. I mean literally maybe two words. He didn't say 'Good morning', 'Goodnight', 'What time?' Nothing. Why, I don't know. He sent word back after the tour was over that the reason he couldn't communicate or play was that Art Blakey and I were so ugly." A different side of Monk is revealed in Lewis Porter's biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music; Coltrane states: "Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles [Davis]: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you." The documentary film Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) attributes Monk's quirky behaviour to mental illness. In the film, Monk's son, T.S. Monk, says that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reports that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions due to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s. No reports or diagnoses were ever publicized, but Monk would often become excited for two or three days, pace for days after that, after which he would withdraw and stop speaking. Physicians recommended electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment option for Monk's illness, but his family would not allow it; antipsychotics and lithium were prescribed instead.[8][9] Other theories abound: Leslie Gourse, author of the book Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk (1997), reports that at least one of Monk's psychiatrists failed to find evidence of manic depression or schizophrenia. Others blamed Monk's behavior on intentional and inadvertent drug use: Monk was unknowingly administered LSD, and may have taken peyote with Timothy Leary. Another physician maintains that Monk was misdiagnosed and given drugs during his hospital stay that may have caused brain damage. As his health declined, Monk's last six years were spent as a guest in the New Jersey home of his long-standing patron, Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, who had also nursed Charlie Parker during his final illness. Monk didn't play the piano during this time, even though one was present in his room, and he spoke to few visitors. Monk died of a stroke on February 17, 1982 and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Since his death, his music has been rediscovered by a wider audience and he is now counted alongside the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and others as a major figure in the history of jazz. In 1993, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2006, Monk was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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