Thelonious Alone in San Francisco

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Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
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Live album by
Thelonious Monk
Released1959
RecordedOctober 21 and 22, 1959
Venue Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, CA
Genre Jazz
Length40:25
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)
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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.)

Contents

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

Technical

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References

  1. ↑ Planer, Lindsay. Thelonious Alone in San Francisco at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  145. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). 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. ↑ Gleason, Ralph J. (31 March 1960). "Review of Thelonius Alone in San Francisco" (PDF). DownBeat. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  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


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