Solo Monk
by Thelonious Monk
- Type: Album
- Released: May 1965
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:09:57
- Community rating: 4/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Stripping away his usual quartet, this session captures Thelonious Monk performing unaccompanied on the piano. The intimate setting highlights his reliance on older stride techniques, exposing the underlying rhythmic swing and sharp, dissonant chord voicings of his unique compositional style.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, melodic, minimalistic
Tracklist
- Dinah (Take 2) (2:28)
- I Surrender, Dear (3:45)
- Sweet And Lovely (Take 2) (3:00)
- North Of The Sunset (1:53)
- Ruby, My Dear (5:40)
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (2:37)
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You (3:18)
- Everything Happens To Me (Take 3) (3:29)
- Monk's Point (2:17)
- I Should Care (1:57)
- Ask Me Now (4:37)
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) (3:34)
- Introspection (2:11)
- Darn That Dream (3:39)
- Dinah (Take 1) (2:22)
- Sweet And Lovely (Take 1) (3:16)
- Ruby, My Dear (Take 1) (4:44)
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (Take 1) (2:41)
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Take 2) (3:18)
- Everything Happens To Me (Re-Take 1) (5:18)
- Ask Me Now (Take 1) (3:43)
Credits
- Thelonious Monk - primary artist, piano, written-by
- Paul Davis - artwork [cover art]
- Martin Williams - liner notes
- Teo Macero - producer
- Harry Akst - written-by
- Joe Young - written-by
- Sam Lewis - written-by
- Gordon Clifford - written-by
- Harry Barris - written-by
- Gus Arnheim - written-by
- Harry Tobias - written-by
- Jules Lemare - written-by
- Al Neiburg - written-by
- Doc Daugherty - written-by
- Ellis Reynolds - written-by
- Ray Noble - written-by
- Matt Dennis - written-by
- Tom Adair - written-by
- Axel Stordahl - written-by
- Paul Weston - written-by
- Sammy Cahn - written-by
- Harry Link - written-by
- Holt Marvell - written-by
- Jack Strachey - written-by