Live at the Jazz Workshop is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musician Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...

, recorded during two shows in San Francisco in 1964 and first released in 1982, by Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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Release history

The tapes of these two shows stayed locked away in the Columbia Records vault for almost 20 years, until the label released a double-LP from them shortly after Monk's death in 1982. A CD release followed in 2001, under the name of "Live at the Jazz Workshop - Complete", featuring a number of bonus tracks, and nearly doubling the length of the record.

Side 1

1. Don’t Blame Me/Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are
2. Well, You Needn’t
3. Evidence (Justice)/Rhythm-A-Ning
4. 'Round About Midnight
5. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You

Side 2

1. Bemsha Swing
2. Memories Of You/Just You, Just Me
   Just You, Just Me
   "Just You, Just Me" is a song from the 1929 musical film Marianne, composed by Jesse Greer with lyrics by Raymond Klages. It was introduced by Marion Davies and Cliff Edwards, with Dick Hyman on the piano...
   
   
3. Blue Monk
4. Misterioso
5. Hackensack
6. Bright Mississippi
7. Epistrophy

CD 1

1. Don’t Blame Me - 1:43
2. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are - 7:32
3. Well, You Needn’t - 10:30
4. Evidence/Rhythm-A-Ning - 6:24
5. Epistrophy (theme) - 1:05
6. Hackensack - 8:03
7. Bright Mississippi - 1:05
8. Evidence - 4:36
9. Epistrophy - 3:53
10. Round Midnight 6:06
11. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You - 6:41
12. Memories Of You - 2:28
13. Just You, Just Me - 6:44
14. Epistrophy - 5:28

CD 2

1. Blue Monk - 7:06
2. Well, You Needn’t - 8:08
3. Bright Mississippi - 8:11
4. Bemsha Swing; - 4:09
5. Round Midnight - 6:27
6. Nutty - 8:08
7. Straight, No Chaser
   Straight, No Chaser (composition)
   "Straight, No Chaser" is a jazz standard composed by Thelonious Monk. It was first recorded on Monk's Blue Note Sessions in 1951. It has been recorded numerous times by Monk and others and is one of Monk's most covered songs....
   
    - 6:29
8. Thelonious - 3:57
9. Hackensack - 5:35
10. Misterioso - 6:52
11. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are - 7:47
12. Epistrophy (theme) - 1:02

Personnel

• Thelonious Monk - piano
  Piano
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• Charlie Rouse
  Charlie Rouse
  Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by the collaboration for more than ten years with Thelonious Monk.- Biography :...
  
   - tenor sax
• Larry Gales
  Larry Gales
  Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales was an American jazz double-bassist.Gales began playing bass at age 11, and attended the Manhattan School of Music in the late 1950s. In that decade and the beginning of the next he worked with J.C. Heard, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Mann, Junior...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Ben Riley
  Ben Riley
  Ben Riley is an American hard bop drummer known for his work with Thelonious Monk, as well as Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ahmad Jamal, Kenny Barron, and as member of the group Sphere...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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