Thelonious Alone in San Francisco

Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
Live album by Thelonious Monk
Released	1959
Recorded	October 21 and 22, 1959
Venue	Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:25
Label	Riverside
Producer	Orrin Keepnews
Thelonious Monk chronology
5 by Monk by 5 (1959) Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959) Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (1960)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
DownBeat	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[5]

Thelonious Alone in San Francisco is jazz pianist Thelonious Monk's third solo album, recorded in 1959. ^{[6] [7]} ( Piano Solo , aka Solo 1954, recorded in Paris, ^[8] and Thelonious Himself (1957), were Monk's previous forays into this form.)

It was recorded in Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, California, on October 21 and 22, 1959, but without an audience present.

"Bluehawk" and "Round Lights" were improvised blues which appeared only in these recorded versions. The other Monk compositions had appeared in prior recordings.

Track listing

All songs by Thelonious Monk, unless otherwise indicated.

Side one

1. "Blue Monk" - 3:44
2. "Ruby, My Dear" - 3:56
3. "Round Lights" - 3:34
4. "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 5:37
5. "You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 4:01

Side two

1. "Bluehawk" - 3:37
2. "Pannonica" - 3:51
3. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:41
4. "There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie" (Jack Meskill, Harry Richman, Pete Wendling) - 4:18
5. "Reflections"- 5:06

Personnel

• Thelonious Monk – piano
• Reice Hamel - recording engineer

References

1. Planer, Lindsay. Thelonious Alone in San Francisco at AllMusic
2. Gleason, Ralph J. (March 31, 1960). "Review of Thelonius Alone in San Francisco" (PDF). DownBeat. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
3. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1025. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
5. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  145. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
6. "Thelonious Monk: Making The Piano Hum". NPR.org.
7. Yanow, Scott (May 11, 2000). Bebop. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9780879306083 – via Google Books.
8. Thelonious Alone in San Francisco at AllMusic