Mulligan Meets Monk

Mulligan Meets Monk
Studio album by Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk
Released	1957
Recorded	August 12–13, 1957 Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz, bebop
Length	40:52 (Original LP) 59:31 (reissue)
Label	Riverside RLP 12-247
Producer	Orrin Keepnews
Gerry Mulligan chronology
The Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Bob Brookmeyer at Newport (1957) Mulligan Meets Monk (1957) Blues in Time (1957)
Thelonious Monk chronology
Monk's Music (1957) Mulligan Meets Monk (1957) Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1958)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

Mulligan Meets Monk is a studio album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, originally released on Riverside Records in 1957. ^{[5] [6]} It has been reissued numerous times. It was remastered for CD in 1987 (on Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics) with three additional alternative takes from the original session. ^[7]

Track listing

Original LP (1957)

Side One

1. "'Round Midnight" (Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 8:29
2. "Rhythm-a-Ning" (Monk) – 5:19
3. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 7:17

Side Two

1. "Decidedly" (Gerry Mulligan) – 5:54
2. "Straight, No Chaser" (Monk) – 7:00
3. "I Mean You" (Monk, Coleman Hawkins) – 6:53

Digital re-release (1987)

1. "'Round Midnight" – 8:29
2. "Rhythm-a-Ning" – 5:19
3. "Sweet and Lovely" – 7:17
4. "Decidedly" (original stereo take 4) – 5:54
5. "Decidedly" (original mono take 5) – 6:37
6. "Straight, No Chaser" (original take 3) – 7:00
7. "Straight, No Chaser" (alternate take 1) – 5:29
8. "I Mean You" (original take 4) – 6:53
9. "I Mean You" (alternate take 2) – 6:30

Personnel

Musicians

• Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone
• Thelonious Monk – piano
• Wilbur Ware – double bass
• Shadow Wilson – drums

Production

• Orrin Keepnews - producer, liner notes
• Jack Higgins - recording engineer
• Robert Parent - cover photo
• Paul Bacon - cover design

For the CD-release (1987)

• Phil De Lancie - digital remastering
• Peter Grant - design

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th edn). Penguin Books. ISBN   9780140515213
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  145. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
4. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
5. Cf. Jazzdisco.org
6. Mulligan Meets Monk at Discogs
7. All tracks were also part of the box set Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings at Discogs (list of releases) issued a year before in 1986.

Further reading

• Draper, Jason (2008). A Brief History of Album Covers. London: Flame Tree Publishing. pp. 28–29. ISBN   9781847862112. OCLC   227198538.