Description
Thelonious Monk With Sonny Rollins And Frank Foster – Monk / Original Jazz Classics Audio CD / OJCCD 016-2
UPC 090204012794
Monk (Prestige PRLP 7053) is a 1956 compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, featuring material recorded from 1953 to 1954 for the Prestige label and performed by Monk with two quintets, one featuring Julius Watkins, Sonny Rollins, Percy Heath, and Willie Jones and one featuring Ray Copeland, Frank Foster, Curly Russell, and Art Blakey. It was originally titled both Thelonious Monk [on its 1956 cover] and Thelonious Monk Quintets [on its labels] (PRLP 7053). Over the following decade, it was also re-released as Wee See (PRLP 7245) and The Golden Monk (PRST 7363) The most common cover art (with the Monk title), is 1958 revision, designed by Reid Miles.
| Label: | Original Jazz Classics – OJCCD 016-2 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Germany |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Style: | Bop |
Tracklist:
| 1 | We See | 5:13 | |
| 2 |
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes |
|
4:30 |
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| 3 | Locomotive | 6:20 | |
| 4 | Hackensack | 5:10 | |
| 5 | Let's Call This | 4:58 | |
| 6 | Think Of One (Take 2) | 5:40 | |
| 7 | Think Of One (Take 1) | 5:36 |
- Bass – Curly Russell (tracks: 1 to 4), Percy Heath (tracks: 5 to 7)
- Composed By – Thelonious Monk (tracks: 1, 3 to 7)
- Drums – Art Blakey (tracks: 1 to 4), Willie Jones (tracks: 5 to 7)
- Engineer – Doug Hawkins (tracks: 5 to 7), Rudy Van Gelder (tracks: 1 to 4)
- Ensemble – Thelonious Monk Quintet
- French Horn – Julius Watkins (tracks: 5 to 7)
- Liner Notes – Ira Gitler
- Mastered By – Kirk Felton
- Piano – Thelonious Monk
- Supervised By – Bob Weinstock (tracks: 1 to 4), Ira Gitler (tracks: 5 to 7)
- Tenor Saxophone – Frank Foster (tracks: 1 to 4), Sonny Rollins (tracks: 5 to 7)
- Trumpet – Ray Copeland (tracks: 1 to 4)
