Recording Date: 1955
Label: Riverside

1. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
2. Sophisticated Lady
3. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
4. Black And Tan Fantasy
5. Mood Indigo
6. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
7. Solitude
8. Caravan

Thelonious Monk - Piano
Oscar Pettiford - Bass
Kenny Clarke - Drums



Recording Date: 1957
Label: Riverside

1. 'Round Midnight
2. Rhythm-A-Ning
3. Sweet And Lovely
4. Decidedly (take 4)
5. Straight, No Chaser (take 3)
6. I Mean You (take 4)
7. Decidedly (take 5)
8. Straight, No Chaser (take 1)
9. I Mean You (take 1)
10. I Mean You (take 2)

Gerry Mulligan - Baritone Saxophone
Thelonious Monk - Piano
Wilbur Ware - Bass
Shadow Wilson - Drums



Recording Date: 1959
Label: Riverside

1. Blue Monk
2. Ruby, My Dear
3. Round Lights
4. Everything Happens To Me
5. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Heart
6. Bluehawk
7. Pannonica
8. Remember
9. There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie (take 2)
10. There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie (take 1)
11. Reflections

Thelonious Monk - Piano



Recording Date: 1957
Label: Jazzland

1. Ruby, My Dear
2. Trinkle, Tinkle
3. Off Minor
4. Nutty
5. Epistrophy
6. Functional
7. Monk's Mood

(#1,2,4,7)
Thelonious Monk - Piano
John Coltrane - Tenor Saxophone
Wilbur Ware - Bass
Shadow Wilson - Drums (except #7)

(#3,5)
Thelonious Monk - Piano
John Coltrane - Tenor Saxophone
Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Saxophone
Gigi Gryce - Alto Saxophone
Ray Copeland - Trumpet
Wilbur Ware - Bass
Art Blakey - Drums

(#6)
Thelonious Monk - Piano



Recording Date: 1962
Label: Columbia

1. Monk's Dream (take 8)
2. Body And Soul (re-take 2)
3. Bright Mississippi (take 1)
4. Five Spot Blues
5. Blue Bolivar Blues (take 2)
6. Just a Gigolo
7. Bye-Ya
8. Sweet And Lovely
9. Monk's Dream (take 3)
10. Body And Soul (take 1)
11. Bright Mississippi (take 3)
12. Blue Bolivar Blues (take 1)

Thelonious Monk - Piano
Charlie Rouse - Tenor Saxophone
John Ore - Bass
Frankie Dunlop - Drums



Recording Date: 1957
Label: Riverside

1. Abide With Me
2. Well, You Needn't
3. Ruby, My Dear
4. Off Minor (take 5)
5. Epistrophy
6. Crepuscule With Nellie (take 6)
7. Off Minor (take 4)
8. Crepuscule With Nellie (take 4 and 5)

Thelonious Monk - Piano
John Coltrane - Tenor Saxophone
Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Saxophone
Gigi Gryce - Alto Saxophone
Ray Copeland - Trumpet
Wilbur Ware - Bass
Art Blakey - Drums



Recording Date: 1967 (#2,4), 1968
Label: Columbia

1. Thelonious
2. Ugly Beauty
3. Raise Four
4. Boo Boo's Birthday
5. Easy Street
6. Green Chimneys
7. In Walked Bud

Thelonious Monk - Piano
Charlie Rouse - Tenor Saxophone
Larry Gales - Bass
Ben Riley - Drums
Jon Hendricks - Vocals (#7)



Recording Date: 1964
Label: Columbia

1. Liza
2. April In Paris
3. Children's Song
4. I Love You
5. Just You, Just Me
6. Pannonica
7. Teo

Thelonious Monk - Piano
Charlie Rouse - Tenor Saxophone
Larry Gales - Bass
Butch Warren - Bass (#7)
Frankie Dunlop - Drums



Recording Date: 1958
Label: Riverside

1. Light Blue
2. Coming On The Hudson
3. Rhythm-A-Ning
4. Epistrophy (Theme)
5. Blue Monk
6. Evidence
7. Epistrophy (Theme)
8. Unidentified Solo Piano
9. Blues Five Spot
10. In Walked Bud/Epistrophy (Theme)

Thelonious Monk - Piano
Johnny Griffin - Tenor Saxophone
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Bass
Roy Haynes - Drums



Recording Date: 1959
Label: Riverside

1. Jackie-Ing
2. Straight, No Chaser
3. Played Twice
4. I Mean You
5. Ask Me Now

Thelonious Monk - Piano
Thad Jones - Cornet
Charlie Rouse - Tenor Saxophone
Sam Jones - Bass
Art Taylor - Drums



Recording Date: 1953 (#5), 1954
Label: Prestige

1. The Way You Look Tonight
2. I Want To Be Happy
3. Work
4. Nutty
5. Friday The 13th

Thelonious Monk - Piano
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Saxophone (#1,2,5)
Julius Watkins - French Horn (#5)
Tommy Potter - Bass (#1,2)
Percy Heath - Bass (#3-5)
Art Taylor - Drums (#1,2)
Art Blakey - Drums (#3,4)
Willie Jones - Drums (#5)



1956 Riverside

1. Brilliant Corners
2. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are
3. Pannonica
4. I Surrender, Dear
5. Bemsha Swing
6. Pannonica (incomplete-opening chorus only)

Thelonious Monk - Piano, Celeste
Ernie Henry - Alto Saxophone
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Saxophone
Oscar Pettiford - Bass
Max Roach - Drums, Tympani
Clark Terry - Trumpet (#5)
Paul Chambers - Bass (#5)

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