Monk in France

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Monk in France
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Live album by
Released1965
RecordedApril 18th, 1961
Genre Jazz
Length52:04
Label Riverside
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Thelonious Monk chronology
Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk
(1960)
Monk in France
(1961, rel. 1965)
Thelonious Monk in Italy
(1961, rel. 1963)
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Monk in France is an album by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, originally recorded on April 18, 1961. The remastered album includes two bonus tracks, "Body and Soul" and "Crepuscule with Nellie." [3]

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Thelonious Monk unless otherwise noted

Side One

  1. "Well You Needn't" – 11:30
  2. "Off Minor" – 11:41
  3. "Just A Gigolo" (Irving Caesar, Leonello Casucci, Julius Brammer) – 1:42

Side Two

  1. "I Mean You" (Monk, Coleman Hawkins) – 11:02
  2. "Hackensack" – 9:46
  3. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (Ned Washington, George Bassman) – 8:30

1995 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 2:48
  2. "Crepuscule with Nellie" – 2:39

Personnel

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1025. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Allmusic entry for Monk in France