Monk's Blues

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Monk's Blues
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Studio album by
Released1968
RecordedNovember 19 and 20, 1968
Genre Jazz
Length56:27
Producer Teo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology
Underground
(1967)
Monk's Blues
(1968)
The London Collection
(1971)
Professional ratings
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Monk's Blues is an album by Thelonious Monk accompanied by a big band arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. Originally released by Columbia Records in 1968, it was re-released on CD in 1994. Produced by Teo Macero, the album was recorded in Los Angeles by Monk's working quartet augmented by a group of Hollywood studio musicians.

Contents

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Let's Cool One" – 3:47
  2. "Reflections" – 4:35
  3. "Rootie Tootie" – 7:35
  4. "Just a Glance at Love" (Teo Macero) – 2:52
  5. "Brilliant Corners" – 3:52

Side Two

  1. "Consecutive Seconds" (Macero) – 2:41
  2. "Monk's Point" – 8:03
  3. "Trinkle, Tinkle" – 4:59
  4. "Straight, No Chaser" – 7:20

CD Bonus Tracks

  1. "Blue Monk" – 6:14
  2. "'Round Midnight" – 4:13

All compositions by Thelonious Monk, except where noted. Arranged by Oliver Nelson.

Personnel

The Quartet

Additional musicians

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References

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