Monk (1964 album)

Monk. is the seventh album Thelonious Monk released for Columbia Records, featuring several original compositions as well as jazz standards.

For the Prestige Records album of the same name, see Monk (1956 album).
Monk.
Studio album by
Thelonious Monk
Released1965
RecordedMarch 9, October 6-8, 1964
GenreJazz
Length45:34
LabelColumbia CL 2291
ProducerTeo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology
It's Monk's Time
(1964)		 Monk.
(1965)		 Solo Monk
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic(favorable)[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

The track "Pannonica" is a tribute to the jazz patron Nica de Koenigswarter.

The track "Teo" is a tribute to the albums' producer Teo Macero.

The album cover is a photo of Monk taken by W. Eugene Smith in 1959. Between 1957 and 1965, Monk and other prominent New York jazz musicians rehearsed at the photographer's home, nicknamed 'The Jazz Loft'.[3]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (Gershwin, Kahn, Gershwin) - (4:35)
  2. "April in Paris" (Harburg, Duke) - (7:52)
  3. "Children's Song (That Old Man)" (public domain) - (4:55)
  4. "I Love You (Sweetheart Of All My Dreams)" (Berlin) - (6:45)

Side Two

  1. "Just You, Just Me" (Greer, Klages) - (8:42)
  2. "Pannonica" (Monk) - (7:21)
  3. "Teo" (Monk) - (5:24)

Personnel
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References
  1. Yanow, Scott. Monk at AllMusic
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. Judy Gelman Myers, "W. Eugene Smith's Time in The Jazz Loft", Popular Photography


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