Thelonious in Action

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Thelonious in Action
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Live album by
Released1958
RecordedAugust 7, 1958
Venue Five Spot Café, Bowery
Genre Jazz
Length39:32
Label Riverside
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Thelonious Monk chronology
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
(1958)
Thelonious in Action
(1958)
Misterioso
(1958)
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Thelonious in Action: Recorded at the Five Spot Cafe is a 1958 album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk with Johnny Griffin. The album was recorded live at the Five Spot Cafe on August 7, 1958 at the same sessions that produced Misterioso . It featured the debuts of Monk's compositions "Light Blue" and "Coming on the Hudson".

Contents

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Light Blue" – 5:14
  2. "Coming on the Hudson" – 5:24
  3. "Rhythm-A-Ning" – 9:25
  4. "Epistrophy (Theme)" – 1:05

Side Two

  1. "Blue Monk" - 8:31
  2. "Evidence" – 8:48
  3. "Epistrophy (Theme)" – 1:05 [5]

CD Bonus Tracks

  1. "Unidentified Solo Piano" – 1:54*
  2. "Blues Five Spot" – 9:56*
  3. "In Walked Bud / Epistrophy (Theme)" – 10:57*

* CD bonus tracks were recorded on July 9, 1958

Personnel

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