Monk (1964 album)

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Monk.
Monk cover.jpg
Studio album by
Thelonious Monk
ReleasedJanuary 1965 [1]
RecordedMarch 9, October 6–8, 1964
Genre Jazz
Length45:34
Label Columbia
Producer Teo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology
It's Monk's Time
(1964)		Monk.
(1965)		 Solo Monk
(1965)
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Allmusic (favorable) [2]
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Monk. is a studio album by American jazz musician Thelonious Monk, released in January 1965 by Columbia Records. It features two original compositions and several jazz standards.

Contents

The track "Pannonica" is a tribute to the jazz patron Pannonica de Koenigswarter. The track "Teo" is a tribute to the album's producer Teo Macero.

The album cover is a photo of Monk taken by W. Eugene Smith in 1959. Between 1957 and 1965, Monk and other prominent New York jazz musicians rehearsed at the photographer's home, nicknamed 'The Jazz Loft'. [6]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (Gershwin, Kahn, Gershwin) - (4:35)
  2. "April in Paris" (Harburg, Duke) - (7:52)
  3. "Children's Song (That Old Man)" (public domain) - (4:55)
  4. "I Love You (Sweetheart of All My Dreams)" (Art Fitch, Bert Lowe, Kay Fitch) - (6:45)

Side Two

  1. "Just You, Just Me" (Greer, Klages) - (8:42)
  2. "Pannonica" (Monk) - (7:21)
  3. "Teo" (Monk) - (5:24)

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Watts, Randy; Callahan, Mike; Edwards, David; Eyries, Patrice. "Columbia Main Series, Part 18: CL 2200-2299/CS 9000-9099 (1964-1965)". Both Sides Now. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Yanow, Scott. Monk at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Down Beat: April 8, 1965 vol. 32, no. 8
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1023. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ↑ Judy Gelman Myers, "W. Eugene Smith's Time in The Jazz Loft", Popular Photography


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