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...

 pianist

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

  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"...

's first sessions as a bandleader were recorded between 1947 and 1952, and released on Blue Note

Blue note

In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres. Country blues, in particular, features wide variations from the...

 records as a series of 78 RPM singles. These singles were then compiled in later years--with additional performances from the sessions--into long-playing album formats. As Monk's reputation and fame grew, the sessions were recompiled again and again into more complete configurations. This article details various releases of these sessions.

The Sessions

The Blue Note recordings were made over the course of six sessions. "Versions" refers only to the number of eventually-released performances; other takes may have been recorded.

All compositions by Thelonious Monk unless otherwise noted.

Session 1: October 15, 1947

1. "Humph"
2. "Evonce" (Idrees Sulieman
   Idrees Sulieman
   Idrees Sulieman was a bop and hard bop trumpeter. He studied at Boston Conservatory, and gained early experience playing with the Carolina Cotton Pickers and the wartime Earl Hines Orchestra...
   
   , Ike Quebec
   Ike Quebec
   Ike Quebec was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. His surname is pronounced KYOO-bek.Critic Alex Henderson wrote, "Though he was never an innovator, Quebec had a big, breathy sound that was distinctive and easily recognizable, and he was quite consistent when it came to down-home blues, sexy...
   
   ) [2 versions]
3. "Suburban Eyes" (Ike Quebec) [2 versions]
4. "Thelonious"

Session 2: October 24, 1947

5. "Nice Work If You Can Get It
   Nice Work If You Can Get It (song)
   "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song.The music was written by George Gershwin, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was one of nine songs George Gershwin wrote for the movie A Damsel in Distress, in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals provided by The Stafford Sisters...
   
   " (George Gershwin
   George Gershwin
   George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
   
   ) [2 versions]
   • Ira Gershwin
     Ira Gershwin
     Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     
      wrote lyrics for this song, but these recordings are instrumental.
6. "Ruby My Dear" [2 versions]
7. "Well You Needn't" [2 versions]
8. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke
   Vernon Duke
   Vernon Duke was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love" with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April in Paris" with lyrics by E. Y...
   
   ) [2 versions]
   • Yip Harburg
     Yip Harburg
     Edgar Yipsel Harburg , known as E.Y. Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers...
     
      wrote lyrics for this song, but these recordings are instrumental.
9. "Off Minor"
10. "Introspection"

Session 3: November 21, 1947

11. "In Walked Bud
    In Walked Bud
    "In Walked Bud" is a 1947 jazz composition by Thelonious Monk. It was based on the chord progression of an earlier standard, Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" . The song was a tribute to jazz pianist Bud Powell....
    
    "
12. "Monk's Mood"
13. "Who Knows? [2 versions]"
14. "'Round Midnight"

Session 4: July 2, 1948

15. "Evidence"
16. "Misterioso" [2 versions]
17. "Epistrophy" (Monk, Kenny Clarke
    Kenny Clarke
    Kenny Clarke , born Kenneth Spearman Clarke, nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaqat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming...
    
    )
18. "I Mean You"
19. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern
    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
    
    , Oscar Hammerstein
    Oscar Hammerstein
    Oscar Hammerstein may refer to:*Oscar Hammerstein I , cigar manufacturer, opera impresario and theatre builder*Oscar Hammerstein II , Broadway lyricist, songwriting partner of Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers...
    
    )
20. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
    
    , Axel Stordahl
    Axel Stordahl
    Axel Stordahl was an arranger who was active from the late 1930s through the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his work with Frank Sinatra in the 1940s at Columbia Records...
    
    , Paul Weston
    Paul Weston
    Paul Weston was an American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts...
    
    ) [2 versions]

Session 5: July 23, 1951

21. "Four in One" [2 versions]
22. "Criss Cross" [2 versions]
23. "Eronel" (Monk, Sulieman, Sadik Hakim
    Sadik Hakim
    Sadik Hakim was an American jazz pianist and composer....
    
    )
24. "Straight, No Chaser"
25. "Ask Me Now" [2 versions]
26. "Willow Weep for Me
    Willow Weep for Me
    "Willow Weep for Me" is a popular song composed in 1932 by Ann Ronell, who also wrote the lyrics. It is mostly known as a jazz standard, but it was a Top 40 hit for the British duo Chad & Jeremy in 1964.-Notable recordings:...
    
    " (Ann Ronnell)

Session 6: May 30, 1952

27. "Skippy" [2 versions]
28. "Hornin' In" [2 versions]
29. "Sixteen" [2 versions]
30. "Carolina Moon
    Carolina Moon
    "Carolina Moon" is a popular song written by Joe Burke and Benny Davis. The song was a 1928 hit for crooner Gene Austin, when it charted for 14 weeks, staying at number one for 7 weeks....
    
    " (Benny Davis
    Benny Davis
    Benny Davis was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs. He composed the classic 1926 standard "Baby Face" with Harry Akst.-Life and career:...
    
    , Joe Burke
    Joe Burke (composer)
    Joseph A. Burke was an American composer and pianist. He was born in Philadelphia and died in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and started as a pianist accompanying silent movies and an arranger in a music publishing firm. It was during this time...
    
    )
31. "Let's Cool One"
32. "I'll Follow You" (Fred E. Ahlert
    Fred E. Ahlert
    Frederick Emil Ahlert was an American composer and songwriter. He received a degree from Fordham Law School, but instead of pursuing a legal career he began work as an arranger, initially for Irving Aaronson and his Commanders and then for composer and band-leader Fred Waring...
    
    )
    • Roy Turk
      Roy Turk
      Roy Kenneth Turk was an American songwriter. A lyricist, he frequently collaborated with composer Fred E. Ahlert – their popular 1928 song "Mean to Me" has become a jazz standard. He worked with many other composers, including for film lyrics...
      
       wrote lyrics for this song, but this recording is instrumental.

Personnel

• 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"...
  
   - piano
• Art Blakey
  Art Blakey
  Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
  
   - drums (sessions 1, 2, 3, 5)
• Shadow Wilson
  Shadow Wilson
  Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson was an American jazz drummer.Much of Wilson's early work was with swing jazz orchestras. He played with Lucky Millinder in 1939, and following this with Benny Carter, Tiny Bradshaw, Lionel Hampton, Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Woody Herman...
  
   - drums (session 4)
• Max Roach
  Max Roach
  Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history...
  
   - drums (session 6)
• Gene Ramey
  Gene Ramey
  Gene Ramey was an American jazz double bassist.Ramey was born in Austin, Texas, and played trumpet in college, but switched to sousaphone when playing with George Corley's Royal Aces, The Moonlight Serenaders, and Terrence Holder. In 1932 he moved to Kansas City and took up the bass, studying with...
  
   - bass (session 1, 2)
• Bob Paige - bass (session 3)
• John Simmons
  John Simmons
  John Christopher Simmons is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League. Simmons was selected in the third round by the Cincinnati Bengals out of Southern Methodist University in the 1981 NFL Draft.-External links:**...
  
   - bass (session 4)
• Al McKibbon
  Al McKibbon
  Al McKibbon was an American jazz double bassist, known for his work in bop, hard bop, and Latin jazz.In 1947, after working with Lucky Millinder, Tab Smith, J. C. Heard, and Coleman Hawkins, he replaced Ray Brown in Dizzy Gillespie's band, in which he played until 1950...
  
   - bass (session 5)
• Nelson Boyd
  Nelson Boyd
  Nelson Boyd was an American bebop jazz bassist.Born in Camden, New Jersey, Boyd played in local orchestras in Philadelphia around 1945, and moved in 1947 to New York. There he played with Coleman Hawkins, Tadd Dameron, and Dexter Gordon, and subsequently with Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, and...
  
   - bass (session 6)
• Milt Jackson
  Milt Jackson
  Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...
  
   - vibraphone (4, 5)
• Idrees Sulieman
  Idrees Sulieman
  Idrees Sulieman was a bop and hard bop trumpeter. He studied at Boston Conservatory, and gained early experience playing with the Carolina Cotton Pickers and the wartime Earl Hines Orchestra...
  
   - trumpet (session 1)
• George Taitt - trumpet (session 3)
• Kenny Dorham
  Kenny Dorham
  McKinley Howard Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did...
  
   - trumpet (session 6)
• Danny Quebec West - alto saxophone (session 1)
• Sahib Shihab
  Sahib Shihab
  Sahib Shihab was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.-Biography:...
  
   - alto saxophone (sessions 3, 5)
• Lou Donaldson
  Lou Donaldson
  Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker.His first recordings were...
  
   - alto saxophone (session 6)
• Billy Smith - tenor saxophone (session 1)
• Lucky Thompson
  Lucky Thompson
  Eli "Lucky" Thompson was a United States jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist...
  
   - tenor saxophone (session 6)
• Kenny "Pancho" Hagood - vocal (session 4, songs 19 & 20)

Blue Note 78 rpm series (12 inch 78 rpm)

• BN 542 "Suburban Eyes" (BN310-1) / "Thelonious" (BN311-0)
• BN 543 "Well, You Needn't" (BN314-0) / "'Round About Midnight" (BN321-1)
• BN 547 "Evonce" (BN309-4) / "Off Minor" (BN317-1)
• BN 548 "In Walked Bud" (BN318-3) / "Epistrophy" (BN330-0)
• BN 549 "Ruby, My Dear" (BN313-1) / "Evidence" (BN328-0)
• BN 560 "Humph" (BN308-2) / "Misterioso" (BN329-0)

Blue Note 1200 series (10 inch 78 rpm)

• BN 1201 "All the Things You Are" (BN326-3) / "I Should Care" (BN327-2)

Blue Note 1500 series (10 inch 78 rpm)

• BN 1564 "I Mean You" (BN331-1) / "Symphonette" (BN334-1) ["Symphonette" not recorded by Monk; Tadd Dameron performance]
• BN 1565 "Monk's Mood" (BN319-0) / "Who Knows" (BN320-0)
• BN 1575 "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (BN312-1) / "April in Paris" (BN315-1)
• BN 1589 "Four in One" (BN392-1) / "Straight, No Chaser" (BN395-0)
• BN 1590 "Criss Cross" (BN393-0) / "Eronel" (BN394-0)
• BN 1591 "Ask Me Now" (BN396-1) / "Willow Weep for Me" (BN397-0)
• BN 1602 "Skippy" (BN434-1 tk.2) / "Let's Cool One" (BN438-0 tk.11)
• BN 1603 "Hornin' In" (BN435-3 tk.7) / "Carolina Moon" (BN437-0 tk.10)

Blue Note 1600 series (7 inch 45 rpm)

• BN 45-1664 "'Round About Midnight" (BN318-3) / "In Walked Bud" (BN321-1)
• BN 45-1646 "Lillie" [Milt Jackson] (BN423-1 tk.4) / "Willow Weep for Me" (BN397-0) [credited to Milt Jackson]

Genius of Modern Music (Blue Note LP 5002, 1951)

Side 1:

1. 'Round Midnight
   'Round Midnight (song)
   Round Midnight" is a 1944 jazz standard by pianist Thelonious Monk. Jazz artists Cootie Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Pepper, and Miles Davis have further embellished the song, with songwriter Bernie Hanighen adding lyrics...
   
    (as "Round About Midnight")
2. Off Minor
3. Ruby my Dear
   Ruby my Dear
   "Ruby, My Dear" is a jazz ballad composed by Thelonious Monk.The tune was named after Rubie Richardson, Monk's first love and his older sister Marion's best friend. It was first recorded at a 1947 session for Blue Note Records...
   
   
4. I Mean You

Side 2:

1. Thelonious
2. Epistrophy
3. Well You Needn't
   Well You Needn't
   "Well, You Needn't" is a jazz standard composed by Thelonious Monk in 1944. According to Robin D.G. Kelley in his seminal biography "Thelonious Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original" the title was inspired by a protegé of Monk's, the jazz singer Charlie Beamon; Monk wrote a song and told...
   
   
4. Misterioso

Genius of Modern Music Vol. 2 (Blue Note LP 5009, 1952)

Side 1:

1. Four in One
2. Who Knows?
3. Nice Work if You Can Get It
4. In Walked Bud
   In Walked Bud
   "In Walked Bud" is a 1947 jazz composition by Thelonious Monk. It was based on the chord progression of an earlier standard, Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" . The song was a tribute to jazz pianist Bud Powell....
   
   

Side 2:

1. Humph
2. Straight No Chaser
3. Suburban Eyes
4. Ask Me Now

Milt Jackson, Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note LP 5011, 1952)

Side 1:

1. Tahiti
2. Lillie
3. Criss-Cross
4. Willow Weep for Me

Side 2:

1. What's New?
2. Bags' Groove
3. On the Scene
4. Eronel

Tracks A1-A2, B1-B3 are from an April 7, 1952 session which does not feature Thelonious Monk.

Milt Jackson and The Thelonious Monk Quintet (Blue Note BLP-1509, 1956)

Side 1:

1. Lillie
2. Tahiti
3. What's New?
4. Bags' Groove
5. On the Scene
6. Willow Weep for Me

Side 2:

1. Criss Cross
2. Eronel
3. Misterioso (Alternate Master)
4. Evidence
5. Lillie (Alternate Master)
6. Four in One (Alternate Master)

Tracks A1-A5, B5 are from an April 7, 1952 session which does not feature Thelonious Monk.

Genius of Modern Music Volume One (Blue Note BLP-1510, 1956)

Side 1:

1. 'Round Midnight
   'Round Midnight (song)
   Round Midnight" is a 1944 jazz standard by pianist Thelonious Monk. Jazz artists Cootie Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Pepper, and Miles Davis have further embellished the song, with songwriter Bernie Hanighen adding lyrics...
   
    (as "Round About Midnight")
2. Off Minor
3. Ruby my Dear
   Ruby my Dear
   "Ruby, My Dear" is a jazz ballad composed by Thelonious Monk.The tune was named after Rubie Richardson, Monk's first love and his older sister Marion's best friend. It was first recorded at a 1947 session for Blue Note Records...
   
   
4. I Mean You
5. April In Paris
   April in Paris (song)
   "April in Paris" is a song composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg in 1932 for the Broadway musical, Walk A Little Faster. The original 1933 hit was performed by Freddy Martin, and the 1952 remake was by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, whose version made the Cashbox Top 50.Composer Alec...
   
   
6. In Walked Bud
   In Walked Bud
   "In Walked Bud" is a 1947 jazz composition by Thelonious Monk. It was based on the chord progression of an earlier standard, Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" . The song was a tribute to jazz pianist Bud Powell....
   
   

Side 2:

1. Thelonious
2. Epistrophy
3. Misterioso
4. Well You Needn't
   Well You Needn't
   "Well, You Needn't" is a jazz standard composed by Thelonious Monk in 1944. According to Robin D.G. Kelley in his seminal biography "Thelonious Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original" the title was inspired by a protegé of Monk's, the jazz singer Charlie Beamon; Monk wrote a song and told...
   
   
5. Introspection
6. Humph

Genius of Modern Music Volume Two (Blue Note BLP-1511, 1956)

1. Carolina Moon (Burke, Davis)
2. Hornin' in
3. Skippy
4. Let's Cool One
5. Suburban Eyes (Quebec)
6. Evonce (Quebec, Sulieman)

Side 2:

1. Straight, No Chaser
2. Four in One
3. Nice Work (If You Can Get It) (G. Gershwin
   George Gershwin
   George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
   
   , I. Gershwin
   Ira Gershwin
   Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
   
   )
4. Monk's Mood
5. Who Knows?
6. Ask Me Now

1989 CD Recompilations

These CD releases use the cover art of the 1956 twelve inch LPs, but redistribute the performances between the volumes into a strict chronological order, with alternate takes immediately following the first-released takes.

A 2-CD set called The Complete Genius, featuring the 1956 yellow cover art, includes all of the Blue Note sessions (including July 2, 1948), ordered in a similar manner.

Genius of Modern Music Volume One (uses 1956 yellow cover)

1. Humph
2. Evonce (alternate take)
3. Evonce
4. Suburban Eyes
5. Suburban Eyes (alternate take)
6. Thelonious
7. Nice Work If You Can Get It (alternate take)
8. Nice Work If You Can Get It
9. Ruby My Dear (alternate take)
10. Ruby My Dear
11. Well You Needn't
12. Well You Needn't (alternate take)
13. April In Paris (alternate take)
14. April In Paris
15. Off Minor
16. Introspection
17. In Walked Bud
    In Walked Bud
    "In Walked Bud" is a 1947 jazz composition by Thelonious Monk. It was based on the chord progression of an earlier standard, Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" . The song was a tribute to jazz pianist Bud Powell....
    
    
18. Monk's Mood
19. Who Knows
20. 'Round Midnight
21. Who Knows (alternate take)

1-6 recorded Oct 15, 1947

7-16 recorded Oct 24 1947

17-21 recorded Nov 21, 1947

Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet (uses 1956 red cover)

1. Tahiti
2. Lillie
3. Lillie
4. Bags' Groove
5. What's New?
6. What's New?
7. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
8. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
9. On the Scene
10. Evidence
11. Misterioso
12. Misterioso
13. Epistrophy
14. I Mean You
15. All the Things You Are
16. I Should Care
17. I Should Care

10-17 recorded July 2, 1948

1-9 are from an April 7, 1952 session which does not feature Thelonious Monk.

Genius of Modern Music Volume Two (uses 1956 red cover)

1. Four in One
2. Four in One (alternate take)
3. Criss Cross
4. Criss Cross (alternate take)
5. Eronel
6. Straight, No Chaser
7. Ask Me Now (alternate take)
8. Ask Me Now
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. Skippy
11. Skippy (alternate take)
12. Hornin' In (alternate take)
13. Hornin' In
14. Sixteen (first take)
15. Sixteen (second take)
16. Carolina Moon
17. Let's Cool One
18. I'll Follow You

1-9 recorded July 23, 1951

10-18 recorded May 30, 1952

2001 CD Recompilations

The sessions were recompiled, under the same title, on CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

 in 2001 as part of the RVG

Rudy Van Gelder

Rudy Van Gelder is an American recording engineer specializing in jazz.Often regarded as one of the most important recording engineers in music history, Van Gelder has recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many widely recognized as classics, in a career spanning more than half a century...

 series, remastered by Rudy Van Gelder from the original session lacquers. The cover art for the original 8-song 10 inch LPs was used. While the earlier CDs grouped all takes of each title together, the recompilation put the alternate takes at the end of each session.

The July 2, 1948 session was released on Blue Note CD "Milt Jackson--Wizard of the Vibes", which also used its respective 1952 10-inch LP cover art.

Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1 (2001)

1. Humph
2. Evonce
3. Suburban Eyes
4. Thelonious
5. Evonce (alternate take)
6. Suburban Eyes (alternate take)
7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
   Nice Work If You Can Get It (song)
   "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song.The music was written by George Gershwin, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was one of nine songs George Gershwin wrote for the movie A Damsel in Distress, in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals provided by The Stafford Sisters...
   
   
8. Ruby My Dear
9. Well You Needn't
10. April In Paris
11. Off Minor
12. Introspection
13. Nice Work If You Can Get It (alternate take)
14. Ruby My Dear (alternate take)
15. Well You Needn't (alternate take)
16. April In Paris (alternate take)
17. In Walked Bud
    In Walked Bud
    "In Walked Bud" is a 1947 jazz composition by Thelonious Monk. It was based on the chord progression of an earlier standard, Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" . The song was a tribute to jazz pianist Bud Powell....
    
    
18. Monk's Mood
19. Who Knows?
20. 'Round Midnight
21. Who Knows? (alternate take)

1-6 recorded Oct 15, 1947

7-16 recorded Oct 24 1947

17-21 recorded Nov 21, 1947

Milt Jackson, Wizard of the Vibes (2001)

1. Tahiti
2. Lillie
3. Bags' Groove
4. What's New
5. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
6. On The Scene
7. Lillie - (alternate take)
8. What's New - (alternate take)
9. Don't Get Around Much Anymore - (alternate take)
10. Evidence
11. Misterioso
12. Epistrophy
13. I Mean You
14. Misterioso - (alternate take)
15. All The Things You Are
16. I Should Care
17. I Should Care - (alternate take)

10-17 recorded July 2, 1948

1-9 are from an April 7, 1952 session which does not feature Thelonious Monk.

Genius of Modern Music Vol. 2 (2001)

1. Four In One
2. Criss Cross
3. Eronel
4. Straight No Chaser
5. Ask Me Now
6. Willow Weep For Me
7. Four In One (alternate take) (mislabeled as "Nice Work If You Can Get It")
8. Criss Cross (alternate take)
9. Ask Me Now (alternate take)
10. Skippy
11. Hornin' In
12. Sixteen (second take)
13. Carolina Moon
14. Let's Cool One
15. I'll Follow You
16. Skippy (alternate take)
17. Hornin' In (alternate take)
18. Sixteen (first take)

1-9 recorded July 23, 1951

10-18 recorded May 30, 1952

The Complete Genius (Blue Note 2 LP set, BN-LA 579-H2)

1976 compilation featuring all takes released in 1940's and 1950's.

Sessions presented in this order: 3, 1, 2, 4, 6, 5.

The Complete Blue Note Recordings Of Thelonious Monk (Mosaic Records

Mosaic Records

Mosaic Records is an American specialist jazz record label, founded in 1983 by Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie to issue coherent limited edition box sets of jazz recordings by individual musicians, which had fallen out-of-print...

 4 LP Boxed Set, MR4-101)

Limited edition 1983 set was the first appearance of most of the alternate takes. Ordering is similar to later Blue Note (Japan) 2-CD "Complete Genius."

The Complete Genius (Blue Note Japan, 2 CD set)

Similar in visual appearance and sequencing to the 1989 releases, combines "Genius of Modern Music" volumes 1 & 2, with the 1948 Milt Jackson section properly placed in-between. Features the yellow "volume 1" cover from 1956. This may only have been released by Blue Note Japan.

The Complete Blue Note Recordings Of Thelonious Monk (Blue Note, 4 CD Boxed Set)

1994 compilation with similar cover to Mosiac LP set includes all takes from the six sessions, plus a 1957 Sonny Rollins session and a live 1958 Five Spot recording with John Coltrane.

See also

• Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1
  Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1
  Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 is the name given to at least four different compilation albums by jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk. Each version comprises some of Monk's first recordings as band leader for Blue Note, recorded in 1947 . The original LP with this title was compiled in 1951.Two...
  
  
• Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2
  Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2
  Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 is the name given to at least four different compilation albums by jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk. Each version comprises some of Monk's recordings as a band leader for Blue Note, recorded between 1947 and 1952...
  
  
• Milt Jackson: Wizard of the Vibes
  Wizard of the Vibes
  Wizard of the Vibes is a Blue Note Records compilation of performances by jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson. The sessions were the work of The Thelonious Monk Quintet and The Modern Jazz Quartet plus Lou Donaldson...
  
  

External links

Covers and Liner Notes of 10" LPs: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/index.htm

Covers and Liner Notes of 12" LPs: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote2/index.htm

http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-78-rpm-series/

http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-45-rpm-1600-series/single-index/