Live Albums By Thelonious Monk
1957 Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall
1958 Complete Live At The Five Spot with John Coltrane
1958 Thelonious Monk In Action
1960 At the Blackhawk
1963 In Tokyo
1963-1965 Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection
1963 1965 At Newport
1964 Thelonious Monk Live At The It Club
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Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection 1963 -1965 collects together five live recordings by Thelonious Monk in the early 1960s.
The albums included are:
Monk At Newport 1963 & 1965 is a two CD live album by Thelonious Monk.
The first CD was recorded at the Newport Festival on July 3, 1963 and CD 2 was recorded two years later on July 14, 1965.
Playing at the 1963 concert were:
Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone,
Pee Wee Russell – clarinet,
Thelonious Monk – piano,
Butch Warren – bass,
Frankie Dunlop – drums.
Playing at the 1965 were:
Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone,
Thelonious Monk – piano,
Larry Gales – bass,
Ben Riley – drums.
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Monk In Tokyo is a live album by Thelonious Monk
It was recorded at Sankei, Tokyo on May 21, 1963.
Playing on the album are:
Thelonious Monk – piano
Charlie Rouse – tenor sax
Butch Warren – bass
Frankie Dunlop – drums
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Complete Live At The Five Spot is a live album by the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane.
It was recorded at the Five Spot Café in New York on September 11, 1958.
Playing on the album are:
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone,
Thelonious Monk – piano,
Ahmed Abdul-Malik – bass,
Roy Haynes – drums.
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At The Blackhawk is a live album by the Thelonious Monk Quartet plus Two.
It was recorded at the Blackhawk in San Francisco on April 29, 1960.
Playing on the album are:
Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone,
Thelonious Monk – piano,
John Ore – bass,
Billy Higgins – drums,
Plus, the two extra players added were trumpeter, Joe Gordon and tenor sax player, Harold Land.
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Thelonious Monk has a unique style of playing the piano which I suspects divides opinion.
What are his best live albums?
His 1957 performance with John Coltrane is popular and so is the 1964 recording made at the It Club but do these represent Thelonious Monk at his very best?
I’m not sure which is why I have started a readers poll.
Thelonious In Action is a live album by the Thelonius Monk Quartet with Johnny Griffin.
It was recorded at the Five Spot Cafe in New York City on August 7, 1958.
Playing on the album are:
Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone,
Thelonious Monk – piano,
Ahmed Abdul-Malik – bass,
Roy Haynes – drums.
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Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall is a live album.
It was recorded on 29 November 1957 in New York as part of a benefit concert for the Morningside Community Center in Harlem.
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Live At The It Club is a live album by jazz piano great Thelonious Monk and his band.
It was recorded on October 31 and November 1, 1964 and was finally released in 1982.
In 1998 it was extended to include virtually the complete performance. I’ve read that the tape for one song was flawed.
Playing on this album are:
Thelonious Monk – piano,
Charlie Rouse – tenor sax,
Larry Gales – bass,
Ben Riley – drums.
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