The following is the discography of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917–1982).

Discography

Blue Note Records (1947–1952)

Singles

Singles released from the Blue Note sessions include the following: ^[1]

Blue Note 500 series (10 inch 78 rpm)

• BN 542 "Thelonious" (BN311-0) / "Suburban Eyes" (BN310-1)
• BN 543 "'Round About Midnight" (BN321-1) / "Well, You Needn't" (BN314-0)
• BN 547 "Evonce" (BN309-4) / "Off Minor" (BN317-1)
• BN 548 "In Walked Bud" (BN318-3) / "Epistrophy" (BN330-0)
• BN 549 "Ruby, My Dear" (BN313-1) / "Evidence" (BN328-0)
• BN 560 "Humph" (BN308-2) / "Misterioso" (BN329-0)

Blue Note 1200 series (10 inch 78 rpm)

• BN 1201 "I Should Care" (BN327-2) / "All the Things You Are" (BN326-3)

Blue Note 1500 series (10 inch 78 rpm)

• BN 1564 "I Mean You" (BN331-1) / "Symphonette" (BN334-1) ["Symphonette" not recorded by Monk; Tadd Dameron performance]
• BN 1565 "Who Knows" (BN320-0) / "Monk's Mood" (BN319-0)
• BN 1575 "April in Paris" (BN315-1) / "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (BN312-1)
• BN 1589 "Four in One" (BN392-1) / "Straight, No Chaser" (BN395-1)
• BN 1590 "Criss Cross" (BN393-0) / "Eronel" (BN394-0)
• BN 1591 "Ask Me Now" (BN396-1) / "Willow Weep for Me" (BN397-0)
• BN 1602 "Skippy" (BN434-1 tk.2) / "Let's Cool One" (BN438-0 tk.11)
• BN 1603 "Hornin' In" (BN435-3 tk.7) / "Carolina Moon" (BN437-0 tk.10)

Blue Note 1600 series (7 inch 45 rpm)

• BN 45-1664 "'Round About Midnight" (BN321-1) / "In Walked Bud" (BN318-3)
• BN 45-1646 "Lillie" [Milt Jackson] (BN423-1 tk.4) / "Willow Weep for Me" (BN397-0) [credited to Milt Jackson]

LPs

10-inch LPs

The recording sessions had been issued in various forms before 12 inch LP era of BLP-1500 series. And initial 12 inch LP versions still contained the six Blue Note recording sessions in non-chronological configurations. CD versions became to reflect the recording dates roughly in the following notes:

• 1951: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (Blue Note LP 5002)
• 1951: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (Blue Note LP 5009)
• 1952: Milt Jackson (Blue Note LP 5011)

12-inch LPs

The recording sessions had been issued in various forms before 12 inch LP era of BLP-1500 series. And initial 12 inch LP versions still contained the six Blue Note recording sessions in non-chronological configurations. CD versions became to reflect the recording dates roughly in the following notes:

• 1956: Milt Jackson (BLP 1509) – 1948, 1951 and 1952 Blue Note recording sessions
• 1956: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (BLP 1510) – 1947 Blue Note recording sessions
• 1956: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (BLP 1511) – 1951 and 1952 Blue Note recording sessions

Live albums

• 1993: Discovery! Live at the Five Spot – Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane – live recorded at the Five Spot Café in 1958
• 2005: Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall – live recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1957

Box sets

• 1947- 52 The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1983 - Mosaic Records 4 LP Boxed Set, MR4-101) and (1994 - Blue Note, 4 CD Set)

Prestige Records (1952–1954)

LPs

Original 10-inch LPs

Before their eventual formulation into three somewhat haphazard, non-chronological 12-inch LPs, Thelonious Monk's Prestige output consisted of five strictly chronological 10-inch (shorter-duration) LPs. The LPs were re-released by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017. The LPs were released in the 1950s as follows: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

• Thelonious Monk Trio: Thelonious (Prestige PrLP 142) – recorded on October 15, 1952 (side A) and December 18, 1952 (side B)
• Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows For LP, Featuring Sonny Rollins (Prestige PrLP 166) – recorded on November 13, 1953
• Thelonious Monk Quintet (with Frank Foster, Art Blakey) (Prestige PrLP 180) – recorded on May 11, 1954
• Thelonious Monk Plays (with Percy Heath and Art Blakey) (Prestige PrLP 189) – recorded on September 22, 1954
• Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk (Prestige PrLP 190) – recorded on October 25, 1954,

The majority of the contents of the first 4 of these five LPs were released, sequenced mostly in order, on a Prestige double-LP compilation in 1972, PR/PRT 24006, Thelonious Monk. The exception was the take of "Think of One" selected; on the compilation, Take 1 was used instead of the originally-selected Take 2.

Recompilations as 12-inch LP albums

• Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige 7027, 1956) – recorded in 1952–54
• Monk (Prestige 7053, 1956) – recorded in 1953-54
• Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige 7075, 1956) – recorded in 1953-54

Box sets

The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk (2000, 3 CD, Prestige)

Riverside Records (1955–1961)

• 1955 - Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1956)
• 1956 - The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)
• 1956 - Brilliant Corners (1957)
• 1957 - Thelonious Himself (1957)
• 1957 - Monk's Music (1957)
• 1957 - Mulligan Meets Monk (1957) with Gerry Mulligan
• 1957 - The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2006) – complete 1957 studio recordings with John Coltrane
• 1957 - Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1961)
• 1958 - Thelonious in Action with Johnny Griffin (1958) – live at The Five Spot Café
• 1958 - Misterioso (1958) – recorded on the same date with Thelonious in Action above
• 1959 - The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959) – Charlie Rouse joined the band then
• 1959 - 5 by Monk by 5 (1959)
• 1959 - Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959)
• 1960 - Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk
• 1961 - Thelonious Monk in Italy (1963)
• 1961 - Monk in France (1965) – live

Box sets

• The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1991, 15 CD, Riverside)
• All Monk. The Riverside Albums (2010, 16 CD, Universal)

Columbia Records (1962–1968)

• 1962 - Monk's Dream (1963)
• 1962-63 - Criss-Cross (1963)
• 1963 - In Tokyo 1 and In Tokyo 2 (1963) – live, later released together in edited and complete form as Monk in Tokyo (1969, 1973)
• 1963 Miles & Monk at Newport (1964) – with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance
• 1963 - Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1964) – live
• 1964 - It's Monk's Time (1964)
• 1964 - Monk (1965)
• 1964 - Live at the It Club (1982) – live
• 1964 - Live at the Jazz Workshop (1982) – live
• 1964-65 - Solo Monk (1965)
• 1965 - Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) () – live
• 1966-67 - Straight, No Chaser (1967)
• 1967-68 - Underground (1968)
• 1968 - Monk's Blues (1968)

Box sets

• The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (2012, 6 CD, Sony)
• The Thelonious Monk Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection (2015, 10 CD, Sony)

On other labels

• 1954: Piano Solo ( Disques Vogue, 1954) - the first solo piano album, recorded in Paris on June 4, 1954
• 1959: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam, 2017) – recorded on July 27, 1959
• 1961: Complete 1961 Amsterdam Concert (Solar, 2014) – recorded on April 15, 1961
• 1961: April in Paris (Milestone, 1981) – recorded on April 18, 1961
• 1961: Live in Stockholm (Dragon, 1987) – recorded on May 16, 1961
• 1963: Mønk (Gearbox, 2018) – recorded on March 5, 1963
• 1963: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival '63 (Storyville, 1994) – live recorded on September 21 & 22, 1963
• 1964: Live in Paris, 1964 (France's Concert, 1989) – live recorded at Maison de la Radio on February 23, 1964
• 1964: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival Records, 2007) – live recorded on September 20, 1964
• 1967: Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 (France's Concert, 1988) – live recorded on November 3, 1967
• 1968: Palo Alto ( Impulse!, 2020) – live recorded at Palo Alto High School on October 27, 1968 ^{[6] [7]}
• 1969: Paris 1969 (Laser Swing Productions/Blue Note, 2013)[CD + DVD-Video] – live recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris on December 15, 1969
• 1971: The Man I Love (Black Lion, 1971) – recorded on November 15, 1971
• 1971: Something in Blue (Black Lion, 1972) – recorded on November 15, 1971
• 1971: Blue Sphere (Black Lion, ?) – recorded on November 15, 1971

Compilations

• Monk's Miracles (1966)
• Monk's Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1968)
• The Best of Thelonious Monk (Riverside Records, 1969)
• 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)
• Monk's Classic Recordings (1983)
• Blues Five Spot (1984, unissued recordings from 1958 to 1961, with various saxophonists and Thad Jones, cornet)
• Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 (1998, 2 CD, Sony)
• The Columbia Years: '62–'68 (2001, 3 CD, Sony)
• The Essential Thelonious Monk (2003, CD, Columbia/Legacy)
• The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions (1954–71) (3LP, Mosaic) ^[8]

As sideman

With Art Blakey

• Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Atlantic, 1958)
• The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic, 1971)

With Dave Brubeck

• Summitt Sessions (Columbia, 1970) – 1 track

With Miles Davis

• Bags' Groove (Prestige, 1954)
• Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (Prestige, 1954)

With Coleman Hawkins

• Bean and the Boys (Prestige, 1972) – recorded in 1944. 4 tracks only.

With Milt Jackson

• Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note, 1948) – a.k.a. Milt Jackson (Blue Note, 1956)

With Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

• Bird and Diz (Verve, 1950)

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)

References

External links

• Thelonious Monk's discography
• Covers and Liner Notes of Blue Note 10" LPs: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/index.htm
• Covers and Liner Notes of Blue Note 12" LPs: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote2/index.htm
• Blue Note 78 rpm series (12 inch 78 rpm) - BN 1 Meade "Lux" Lewis - Melancholy / Solitude 1939
• Blue Note Records Catalog: 45 rpm 1600 series - single index