Monk in France

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Monk in France
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Live album by
Thelonious Monk
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, 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
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