The Complete Prestige Recordings
by Thelonious Monk
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 8 August 2000
- Label: Prestige
- Country: United States
- Length: 3:01:34
- Community rating: 4.24/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Prestige's complete set of Thelonious Monk's recordings for the label, made between 1952 and 1954, gathers his sessions with Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Max Roach. The small-label recordings document Monk's compositions entering the jazz repertoire.
Genres
Descriptors: piano, compilation, comprehensive, improvisation, classic
Tracklist
- Flyin' Hawk (2:51)
- Recollections (Album Version) (2:55)
- Drifting On A Reed (Album Version) (3:06)
- On The Bean (Album Version) (2:43)
- Bye-Ya (2:47)
- Monk's Dream (3:09)
- Sweet And Lovely (3:37)
- Little Rootie Tootie (3:08)
- Bemsha Swing (3:11)
- Reflections (2:48)
- These Foolish Things (2:45)
- Trinkle, Tinkle (2:51)
- Think Of One (5:37)
- Let's Call This (5:05)
- Think Of One (5:45)
- Friday The 13th (Album Version) (10:34)
- We See (Album Version) (5:16)
- Locomotive (Album Version) (6:23)
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Album Version) (4:31)
- Hackensack (Album Version) (5:13)
- Nutty (5:19)
- Just A Gigolo (3:03)
- Work (Album Version) (5:20)
- Blue Monk (7:38)
- I Want To Be Happy (7:46)
- The Way You Look Tonight (5:15)
- More Than You Know (Album Version) (10:52)
- Bags' Groove (11:16)
- Bemsha Swing (9:32)
- The Man I Love (8:08)
- Swing Spring (10:45)
- Bags' Groove (9:24)
- Feelin' Fine (3:01)
Credits
- Thelonious Monk - primary artist, piano, composed by
- Denzil Best - drums, composed by
- Rikka Arnold - other [production coordination]
- Terri Hinte - other [production coordination]
- Miles Davis - trumpet, composed by
- Milt Jackson - vibraphone, composed by
- Jamie Putnam - art direction, design
- Eric Miller - compilation producer, reissue producer
- Walter Thomas - producer, composed by
- Doug Hawkins - engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder - engineer
- Unknown Artist - engineer
- Peter Keepnews - liner notes
- Chuck Stewart - photography by
- Don Schlitten - photography by
- Esmond Edwards - photography by
- Ira Gitler - producer
- Teacho Wiltshire - producer
- Bob Weinstock - recording supervisor [original]
- Tamaki Beck - supervised by [remastering]
- Gus Arnheim - composed by
- Harry Tobias - composed by
- Jules Lemare - composed by
- Harry Link - composed by
- Holt Marvell - composed by
- Jack Strachey - composed by
- Jerome Kern - composed by
- Otto Harbach - composed by
- Irving Caesar - composed by
- Leonello Casucci - composed by
- Vincent Youmans - composed by
- Dorothy Fields - composed by
- Billy Rose - composed by
- Edward Eliscu - composed by
- George & Ira Gershwin - composed by