Thelonious Monk discography

!Year

!Title

!Label

!Catalog number

!Date recorded

!Notes

|Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1

|Blue Note

|Blue Note LP 5002

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|Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2

|Blue Note

|Blue Note LP 5009

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|Thelonious

|Prestige

|PRLP 142

|1952-10-15, -12-18

|{{Refn|The majority of the contents of the first 4 of these five LPs were released, sequenced mostly in order, on a Prestige double-LP compilation in 1972, PR/PRT 24006, Thelonious Monk. The exception was the take of "Think of One" selected; on the compilation, Take 1 was used instead of the originally-selected Take 2.}}{{refn|The LPs were re-released by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017.Ingalls, Chris, [https://www.popmatters.com/thelonious-monk-complete-prestige-2518725817.html "Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige 10-inch LP Collection"], popmatters.com, 20 December 2017.[http://downbeat.com/news/detail/craft-to-release-historic-box-set-of-monk-on-10-inch-vinyl "Craft To Release Historic Box Set of Monk on 10-Inch Vinyl"], DownBeat, November 16, 2017.Amarosi, AD, [http://floodmagazine.com/48008/thelonious-monk-the-complete-prestige-10-inch-lp-collection/ "Thelonious Monk, “The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection”], Flood Magazine, December 21st 2017.Helfet, Gabriela, [https://thevinylfactory.com/news/thelonious-monk-prestige-box-set/ "Five Thelonious Monk albums remastered and reissued in new 10″ box set"], thevinylfactory.com, October 31, 2017.}}

|Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP

|Prestige

|PRLP 166

|1953-11-13

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|Thelonious Monk Quintet

|Prestige

|PRLP 180

|1954-05-11

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|Thelonious Monk Plays

|Prestige

|PRLP 189

|1954-09-22

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|Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk

|Prestige

|PRLP 190

|1954-10-25

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|Piano Solo

|Disques Vogue

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|1954-06-04

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|Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington

|Riverside

|RLP 12-201

|1955-07-21, -22

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|The Unique Thelonious Monk

|Riverside

|RLP 12-209

|1956-03-17, -04-03

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|Brilliant Corners

|Riverside

|RLP 12-226

|1956-10-15, -12-07

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|Thelonious Himself

|Riverside

|RLP 12-235

|1957-04-12, -16

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|Monk's Music

|Riverside

|RLP 12-242

|1957-06-26

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|Mulligan Meets Monk

|Riverside

|RLP 12-247

|1957-08-12, -13

|with Gerry Mulligan

|5 by Monk by 5

|Riverside

|RLP 12-305

|1959-06-01, -02, -04

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|Thelonious Alone in San Francisco

|Riverside

|RLP 12-312

|1959-10-21, -22

|recorded in Fugazi Hall

|Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane

|Jazzland

|JLP-46

|1957

|with John Coltrane

|Monk's Dream

|Columbia

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|Criss-Cross

|Columbia

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|It's Monk's Time

|Columbia

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|Monk

|Columbia

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|Solo Monk

|Columbia

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|Straight, No Chaser

|Columbia

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|Underground

|Columbia

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|Monk's Blues

|Columbia

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|Something in Blue

|Black Lion

|BLP 30119

|1971-11-15

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|The Man I Love

|Black Lion

|BLP 30141

|1971-11-15

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!Year

!Title

!Label

!Date Recorded

!Venue

!Notes

|Thelonious in Action

|Riverside

|1958-08-07

|Five Spot Café

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|Misterioso

|Riverside

|1958-08-07

|Five Spot Café

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|The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall

|Riverside

|1959-02-28

|The Town Hall

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|At the Blackhawk

|Riverside

|1960-04-29

|Black Hawk

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|Thelonious Monk in Italy

|Riverside

|1961-04-21

|Teatro Lirico

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|In Tokyo 1

|Columbia

|1963-05-21

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|In Tokyo 2

|Columbia

|1963-05-21

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|Miles & Monk at Newport

|Columbia

|1963-04

|Newport Jazz Festival

|with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance

|Big Band and Quartet in Concert

|Columbia

|1963-12-30

|Philharmonic Hall, New York

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|Monk in France

|Riverside

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|Misterioso (Recorded on Tour)

|Columbia

|various

|various

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|Monk in Tokyo

|CBS Sony

|1963-05-21

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|reissued complete 1973

|April in Paris / Live

|Milestone

|1961-04-18

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|Live at the It Club

|Columbia

|1964-10-31, -11-01

|"It" Club

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|Live at the Jazz Workshop

|Columbia

|1964-11-03, -04

|Jazz Workshop

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|Live in Stockholm

|Dragon

|1961-05-16

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|Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967

|France's Concert

|1967-11-03

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|Live in Paris, 1964

|France's Concert

|1964-02-23

|Maison de la Radio

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|Discovery! Live at the Five Spot

|Blue Note

|1958-09-11

|Five Spot Café

|Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane

|Live at Monterey Jazz Festival '63

|Storyville

|1963-09-21, -22

|Monterey Jazz Festival

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|Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

|Blue Note

|1957-11-29

|Carnegie Hall

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|Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival

|Monterey Jazz Festival Records

|1964-09-20

|Monterey Jazz Festival

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|Paris 1969

|Blue Note

|1969-12-15

|Salle Pleyel, Paris

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|Complete 1961 Amsterdam Concert

|Solar

|1961-04-15

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|Mønk

|Gearbox

|1963-03-05

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|Palo Alto

|Impulse!

|1968-10-27

|Palo Alto High SchoolStone, Sam, [https://theseconddisc.com/2020/06/19/epistrophy-unreleased-thelonious-monk-palo-alto-concert-arrives-in-july/ "Epistrophy: Unreleased Thelonious Monk 'Palo Alto' Concert Arrives in July"], theseconddisc.com, June 19, 2020.King, Noel, and Nate Chinen, [https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880564012/a-previously-unreleased-thelonious-monk-concert-is-coming-next-month "A Previously Unreleased Thelonious Monk Concert Is Coming Next Month"], NPR, June 19, 2020.

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!Year

!Title

!Label

!Catalog number

!Note

|Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet

|Blue Note

|BLP 1509

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|Genius of Modern Music, Vol. One

|Blue Note

|BLP 1510

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|Genius of Modern Music, Vol. Two

|Blue Note

|BLP 1511

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|Thelonious Monk Trio

|Prestige

|PRLP 7027

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|Monk

|Prestige

|PRLP 7053

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|Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins

|Prestige

|PRLP 7075

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|Monk's Miracles

|Columbia Record Club

|D 338

|mail order only

|Monk's Greatest Hits

|Columbia

|CS 9775

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|The Best of Thelonious Monk

|Riverside

|RS 3037

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|Monk's Classic Recordings

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|Blues Five Spot

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|Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968

|Sony

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|2 CD

|The Columbia Years: '62–'68

|Sony

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|3 CD

|The Essential Thelonious Monk

|Columbia/Legacy

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|The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings

|Riverside

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|with John Coltrane; 2 CD

|+

!Year

!Title

!Label

!Format

!Notes

|The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk

|Mosaic

|4 LP

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|The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions

|Mosaic

|3 LP; 3 CD{{Cite web |title=Out-Of-Print Limited Edition Jazz Collections |url=https://www.mosaicrecords.com/out-of-print-limited-edition-jazz-collections/ |access-date=2021-07-21 |website=Mosaic Records - Home for Jazz fans! |language=en-US}}

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|The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk

|Riverside

|15 CD

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|The Complete Blue Note Recordings

|Blue Note

|4 CD

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|The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk

|Prestige

|3 CD

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|All Monk. The Riverside Albums

|Universal

|16 CD

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|The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection

|Sony

|6 CD

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|The Thelonious Monk Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection

|Sony

|10 CD

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|+

!Year

!A-side

!B-side

!Label

!Catalog number

!Notes

|"Suburban Eyes"

|Blue Note

|BN 542

|{{Cite web |title=Blue Note Records Catalog: 78 RPM series |url=http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-78-rpm-series}}

|"Well, You Needn't"

|Blue Note

|BN 543

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|"Off Minor"

|Blue Note

|BN 547

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|"Epistrophy"

|Blue Note

|BN 548

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|"Evidence"

|Blue Note

|BN 549

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|"Misterioso"

|Blue Note

|BN 560

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|"All the Things You Are"

|Blue Note

|BN 1201

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|"Symphonette"

|Blue Note

|BN 1564

|"Symphonette" not recorded by Monk; Tadd Dameron performance

|"Monk's Mood"

|Blue Note

|BN 1565

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|"Nice Work If You Can Get It"

|Blue Note

|BN 1575

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|"Straight, No Chaser"

|Blue Note

|BN 1589

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|"Eronel"

|Blue Note

|BN 1590

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|"Ask Me Now"

|"Willow Weep for Me"

|Blue Note

|BN 1591

|"Willow Weep for Me" credited to Milt Jackson

|"Let's Cool One"

|Blue Note

|BN 1602

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|"Carolina Moon"

|Blue Note

|BN 1603

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|"Willow Weep for Me"

|Blue Note

|BN 45-1646

|credited to Milt Jackson

|"In Walked Bud"

|Blue Note

|BN 45-1664

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