Thelonious Monk

• 3-PANEL DIGIPACK

• INCLUDES 9 BONUS TRACKS

• 4 1/2 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Presented here is the complete LP Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige PRLP 7027), which marked the pianist’s fi rst album in a trio format. It was recorded over the course of three sessions in 1952-54, and Monk is backed by such luminaries as Percy Heath on bass, and Max Roach and Art Blakey on drums.

Two songs that complete the sessions but were not included on the original LP have been added here as a bonus, as well as the only three trio tracks from Monk’s otherwise quartet or quintet Blue Note dates from the early Fifties, and his complete live set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, which was one of his very few recorded live trio performances.

PERSONNEL:

• THELONIOUS MONK, piano on all tracks, plus:

• ON TRACKS [1-4] : GARY MAPP, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums.
• New York, October 15, 1952.

• 0N TRACKS [5-6] & [9-10:] GARY MAPP, bass; MAX ROACH, drums.
• New York, December 18, 1952.

• ON TRACKS [7-8 ] & [11-12]: PERCY HEATH, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums.
• Hackensack, New Jersey, September 22, 1954.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS:
• [11-12]: From the same sessions, but not included on the original LP.
• [13-14]: AL McKIBBON, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums. New York, July 23, 1951.
• [15]: NELSON BOYD, bass; MAX ROACH, drums. New York, May 30, 1952.
• [16-19]: HENRY GRIMES, bass; ROY HAYNES, drums.
• Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 7, 1958.

TRACKS:

• 01 Little Rootie Tootie
• 02 Sweet and Lovely
• 03 Bye-Ya
• 04 Monk’s Dream
• 05 Trinkle Tinkle
• 06 These Foolish Things
• 07 Blue Monk
• 08 Just a Gigolo
• 09 Bemsha Swing
• 10 Refl ections
• 11 Work (*)
• 12 Nutty (*)
• 13 Ask Me Now [alt tk] (*)
• 14 Ask Me Now (*)
• 15 I’ll Follow You (*)
• 16 Just You, Just Me [Live] (*)
• 17 Blue Monk [Live] (*)
• 18 ‘Round Midnight [Live] (*)
• 19 Well You Needn’t [Live] (*)

• TOTAL TIME: 75:10 Min