# Thelonious Monk discography

The following is a discography of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917 – 1982).

## Discography
### Studio albums

| Year | Title | Label | Catalog number | Date recorded | Notes |
| 10-inch LPs ||||||
| 1947 – 1952: Blue Note years ||||||
| 1951 | Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 | Blue Note | Blue Note LP 5002 | | |
| 1951 | Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 | Blue Note | Blue Note LP 5009 | | |
| 1952 – 1954: Prestige years ||||||
| 1953 | Thelonious | Prestige | PRLP 142 | 1952-10-15, -12-18 | |
| 1954 | Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP | Prestige | PRLP 166 | 1953-11-13 | |
| 1954 | Thelonious Monk Quintet | Prestige | PRLP 180 | 1954-05-11 | |
| 1954 | Thelonious Monk Plays | Prestige | PRLP 189 | 1954-09-22 | |
| 1954 | Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk | Prestige | PRLP 190 | 1954-10-25 | |
| 1954 | Piano Solo | Disques Vogue | | 1954-06-04 | |
| 12-inch LPs ||||||
| 1955 – 1959: Riverside years ||||||
| 1956 | Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington | Riverside | RLP 12-201 | 1955-07-21, -22 | |
| 1956 | The Unique Thelonious Monk | Riverside | RLP 12-209 | 1956-03-17, -04-03 | |
| 1957 | Brilliant Corners | Riverside | RLP 12-226 | 1956-10-15, -12-07 | |
| 1957 | Thelonious Himself | Riverside | RLP 12-235 | 1957-04-12, -16 | |
| 1957 | Monk's Music | Riverside | RLP 12-242 | 1957-06-26 | |
| 1957 | Mulligan Meets Monk | Riverside | RLP 12-247 | 1957-08-12, -13 | with Gerry Mulligan |
| 1959 | 5 by Monk by 5 | Riverside | RLP 12-305 | 1959-06-01, -02, -04 | |
| 1959 | Thelonious Alone in San Francisco | Riverside | RLP 12-312 | 1959-10-21, -22 | recorded in Fugazi Hall |
| 1961 | Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane | Jazzland | JLP-46 | 1957 | with John Coltrane |
| 1962 – 1968: Columbia years ||||||
| 1963 | Monk's Dream | Columbia | | | |
| 1963 | Criss-Cross | Columbia | | | |
| 1964 | It's Monk's Time | Columbia | | | |
| 1965 | Monk | Columbia | | | |
| 1965 | Solo Monk | Columbia | | | |
| 1967 | Straight, No Chaser | Columbia | | | |
| 1968 | Underground | Columbia | | | |
| 1968 | Monk's Blues | Columbia | | | |
| 1971: Black Lion session ||||||
| 1972 | Something in Blue | Black Lion | BLP 30119 | 1971-11-15 | |
| 1973 | The Man I Love | Black Lion | BLP 30141 | 1971-11-15 | |

### Live albums

| Year | Title | Label | Date Recorded | Venue | Notes |
| 1958 | Thelonious in Action | Riverside | 1958-08-07 | Five Spot Café | |
| 1958 | Misterioso | Riverside | 1958-08-07 | Five Spot Café | |
| 1959 | The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall | Riverside | 1959-02-28 | The Town Hall | |
| 1960 | At the Blackhawk | Riverside | 1960-04-29 | Black Hawk | |
| 1963 | Thelonious Monk in Italy | Riverside | 1961-04-21 | Teatro Lirico | |
| 1963 | In Tokyo 1 | Columbia | 1963-05-21 | | |
| 1963 | In Tokyo 2 | Columbia | 1963-05-21 | | |
| 1964 | Miles & Monk at Newport | Columbia | 1963-04 | Newport Jazz Festival | with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance |
| 1964 | Big Band and Quartet in Concert | Columbia | 1963-12-30 | Philharmonic Hall, New York | |
| 1965 | Monk in France | Riverside | | | |
| 1965 | Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) | Columbia | various | various | |
| 1969 | Monk in Tokyo | CBS Sony | 1963-05-21 | | reissued complete 1973 |
| 1981 | April in Paris / Live | Milestone | 1961-04-18 | | |
| 1982 | Live at the It Club | Columbia | 1964-10-31, -11-01 | "It" Club | |
| 1982 | Live at the Jazz Workshop | Columbia | 1964-11-03, -04 | Jazz Workshop | |
| 1987 | Live in Stockholm | Dragon | 1961-05-16 | | |
| 1988 | Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 | France's Concert | 1967-11-03 | | |
| 1989 | Live in Paris, 1964 | France's Concert | 1964-02-23 | Maison de la Radio | |
| 1993 | Discovery! Live at the Five Spot | Blue Note | 1958-09-11 | Five Spot Café | Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane |
| 1994 | Live at Monterey Jazz Festival '63 | Storyville | 1963-09-21, -22 | Monterey Jazz Festival | |
| 2005 | Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall | Blue Note | 1957-11-29 | Carnegie Hall | |
| 2007 | Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival | Monterey Jazz Festival Records | 1964-09-20 | Monterey Jazz Festival | |
| 2013 | Paris 1969 | Blue Note | 1969-12-15 | Salle Pleyel, Paris | |
| 2014 | Complete 1961 Amsterdam Concert | Solar | 1961-04-15 | | |
| 2018 | Mønk | Gearbox | 1963-03-05 | | |
| 2020 | Palo Alto | Impulse! | 1968-10-27 | Palo Alto High School | |

### Compilations

| Year | Title | Label | Catalog number | Note |
| 1956 | Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet | Blue Note | BLP 1509 | |
| 1956 | Genius of Modern Music, Vol. One | Blue Note | BLP 1510 | |
| 1956 | Genius of Modern Music, Vol. Two | Blue Note | BLP 1511 | |
| 1956 | Thelonious Monk Trio | Prestige | PRLP 7027 | |
| 1956 | Monk | Prestige | PRLP 7053 | |
| 1956 | Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins | Prestige | PRLP 7075 | |
| 1967 | Monk's Miracles | Columbia Record Club | D 338 | mail order only |
| 1969 | Monk's Greatest Hits | Columbia | CS 9775 | |
| 1969 | The Best of Thelonious Monk | Riverside | RS 3037 | |
| 1983 | Monk's Classic Recordings | | | |
| 1984 | Blues Five Spot | | | |
| 1998 | Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 | Sony | | 2 CD |
| 2001 | The Columbia Years: '62–'68 | Sony | | 3 CD |
| 2003 | The Essential Thelonious Monk | Columbia/Legacy | | |
| 2006 | The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings | Riverside | | with John Coltrane; 2 CD |

#### On other labels

* Blue Sphere (Black Lion, ?) – recorded on November 15, 1971, AKA Nice Work in London
* 1959: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam, 2017) – recorded on July 27, 1959

### Box sets

| Year | Title | Label | Format |
| 1983 | The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk | Mosaic | 4 LP |
| 1989 | The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions | Mosaic | 3 LP; 3 CD |
| 1991 | The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk | Riverside | 15 CD |
| 1994 | The Complete Blue Note Recordings | Blue Note | 4 CD |
| 2000 | The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk | Prestige | 3 CD |
| 2010 | All Monk. The Riverside Albums | Universal | 16 CD |
| 2012 | The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection | Sony | 6 CD |
| 2015 | The Thelonious Monk Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection | Sony | 10 CD |

### Singles

| Year | A-side | B-side | Label | Catalog number | Notes |
| 1947 – 1952: Blue Note years ||||||
| 10-inch shellac, 78 RPM ||||||
| | "Thelonious" | "Suburban Eyes" | Blue Note | BN 542 | |
| | "'Round About Midnight" | "Well, You Needn't" | Blue Note | BN 543 | |
| | "Evonce" | "Off Minor" | Blue Note | BN 547 | |
| | "In Walked Bud" | "Epistrophy" | Blue Note | BN 548 | |
| | "Ruby, My Dear" | "Evidence" | Blue Note | BN 549 | |
| | "Humph" | "Misterioso" | Blue Note | BN 560 | |
| | "I Should Care" | "All the Things You Are" | Blue Note | BN 1201 | |
| | "I Mean You" | "Symphonette" | Blue Note | BN 1564 | "Symphonette" not recorded by Monk; Tadd Dameron performance |
| | "Who Knows" | "Monk's Mood" | Blue Note | BN 1565 | |
| | "April in Paris" | "Nice Work If You Can Get It" | Blue Note | BN 1575 | |
| | "Four in One" | "Straight, No Chaser" | Blue Note | BN 1589 | |
| | "Criss Cross" | "Eronel" | Blue Note | BN 1590 | |
| 1952 | "Ask Me Now" | "Willow Weep for Me" | Blue Note | BN 1591 | "Willow Weep for Me" credited to Milt Jackson |
| | "Skippy" | "Let's Cool One" | Blue Note | BN 1602 | |
| | "Hornin' In" | "Carolina Moon" | Blue Note | BN 1603 | |
| 7-inch, 45 RPM ||||||
| | "Lillie" | "Willow Weep for Me" | Blue Note | BN 45-1646 | credited to Milt Jackson |
| | "'Round About Midnight" | "In Walked Bud" | Blue Note | BN 45-1664 | |

### As sideman
#### With Art Blakey

* Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Atlantic, 1958)
* The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic, 1971)

#### With Dave Brubeck

* Summitt Sessions (Columbia, 1970) – 1 track

#### With Miles Davis

* Bags' Groove (Prestige, 1954)
* Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (Prestige, 1954)

#### With Coleman Hawkins

* Bean and the Boys (Prestige, 1972) – recorded in 1944. 4 tracks only.

#### With Milt Jackson

* Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note, 1948) – a.k.a. Milt Jackson (Blue Note, 1956)

#### With Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

* Bird and Diz (Verve, 1950)

#### With Sonny Rollins

* Moving Out (Prestige, 1954)
* Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957)

#### With Gigi Gryce

* Nica's Tempo (Savoy, 1955)

#### With Clark Terry

* In Orbit (Riverside, 1958)