Celebrating 100 years of Thelonious Monk: includes A Collective Personnel Of: Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Gary Mapp, Julius Watkins, Percy Heath, Willie Jones, Ray Copeland, Frank Foster, Curly Russell, Tommy Potter And Art Taylor.
Craft Recordings, the Catalog Division of Concord Music, is proud to announce the release of Thelonious Monk's The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection. The limited-edition album set includes all five of the 10" vinyl LPs which the pianist recorded for the jazz label, spanning 1952 to 1954.
The audio has been carefully restored and remastered by Joe Tarantino from the original analog tapes. Rounding out the collection is a booklet with new liner notes by Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.
These early albums in The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection offer an intriguing look into this distinctive and resolute artist before he found full acclaim and acceptance, and feature an impressive collective personnel that includes some of jazz's finest. "Listening to these tracks more than sixty years after they were recorded, it's stunning how compelling, modern and original Monk's music still sounds, even through the filter of 21st-century ears," observes the collection's producer, Nick Phillips. "That's the mark of a true musical genius, indeed."
Disc 1: Thelonious Monk Trio - Thelonious (24:24)
01. Little Rootie Tootie (3:08)
02. Sweet And Lovely (3:37)
03. Bye-Ya (2:48)
04. Monk's Dream (3:08)
05. Trinkle, Tinkle (2:52)
06. These Foolish Things (2:49)
07. Bemsha Swing (3:12)
08. Reflections (2:50)
Disc 2: Thelonious Monk Quintet featuring Sonny Rollins - Blows For LP (21:27)
01. Friday The Thirteenth (10:32)
02. Let's Call This (5:08)
03. Think Of One (5:47)
Disc 3: Thelonious Monk Quintet - Thelonious Monk Quintet (21:28)
01. We See (5:16)
02. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (4:34)
03. Locomotive (6:24)
04. Hackensack (5:14)
Disc 4: Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Plays (21:21)
01. Work (5:19)
02. Nutty (5:18)
03. Blue Monk (7:40)
04. Just A Gigolo (3:05)
Disc 5: Sonny Rollins And Thelonious Monk - Sonny Rollins And Thelonious Monk (23:47)
01. The Way You Look Tonight (5:14)
02. I Want To Be Happy (7:43)
03. More Than You Know (10:49)
