Monk.
by Thelonious Monk
- Type: Album
- Released: 25 January 1965
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 45:34
- Community rating: 4.03/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Supported by his immensely reliable working quartet featuring Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, 'Monk.' provides a highly polished, accessible entry into the pianist's eccentric catalog. The record blends idiosyncratic, angular original compositions with surprisingly straightforward, stride-influenced standard interpretations. Benefitting from major-label production, the album helped solidify his status as an elder statesman of modern jazz.
Genres
Descriptors: improvisation, acoustic, melodic, technical, instrumental
Tracklist
- Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) (4:35)
- April In Paris (7:52)
- That Old Man (4:55)
- (Just One Way To Say) I Love You (6:45)
- Just You, Just Me (8:42)
- Pannonica (7:21)
- Teo (5:24)
Credits
- Thelonious Monk - primary artist, piano [uncredited], written-by
- Larry Gales - bass [uncredited]
- Ben Riley - drums [uncredited]
- Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone [uncredited]
- George Gershwin - written-by
- Gus Kahn - written-by
- Ira Gershwin - written-by
- E.Y. Harburg - written-by