TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal Numbered Limited Edition 200g LP! Newly Discovered 1959 Studio Recording! Cut By Kevin Gray & Pressed At Quality Record Pressings! Includes A 4-Page Insert With Photos! This item not eligible for any further discount offers! Recorded for the 1960 Roger Vadim movie Les Liaisons Dangereuses, this album features Monk performing with Charlie Rouse, Barney Wilen, Sam Jones and Art Taylor. Format: Sam Records Numbered Limited Edition 200g LP
180g Double Vinyl LP! On Vinyl for the First Time in Over Two Decades! Remastered From Original Master Tapes by Bernie Grundman Mastering! Pressed at Pallas in Germany! Big Band and Quartet in Concert, Monk’s fifth album for Columbia records, was recorded live at Lincoln Center, Philharmonic Hall in New York City on December 30, 1963. Format: ORG Music 180g Vinyl 2LP
The Absolute Sound Top Ten Vinyl Reissue of 2016!Read The Full Review Here! 180g High Quality Vinyl! Monk is joined by some of his closest collaborators Phil Woods, Steve Lacy, and Thad Jones along with Charlie Rouse, Frank Dunlop and more for this 1963 performance at Philharmonic Hall in New York. Format: Speakers Corner Columbia 180g LP
Vinyl Reissue Series Commemorates 65th Anniversary of Prestige Records and 90th Birthday of Legendary Engineer Rudy Van Gelder! Backed alternately by bassists Percy Heath and Gary Mapp and drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach, Monk pours forth his idiosyncratic virtuosity in this set of tunes recorded by the inimitable Rudy Van Gelder. Format: OJC Fantasy LP
Highly Reviewed at HiFi+ - 10 out of 10 for Recording & Music!!! Michael Fremer Rated 9/10 Music, 9/10 Sonics! Heavy-Weight 180 Gram Audiophile All-Analog Pressing! Mastered by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI! This item not eligible for any further discount offers! The signature album by one of jazz's signature artists, Monk's Dream is the Columbia Records debut release featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet: Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Format: Impex 180g LP
Lost 1963 Recording Released For The Very First Time! All Analogue Mono Vinyl LP! TAS Rated 4.5/5 Music, 5/5 Sonics in the December 2018 Issue of The Absolute Sound! A previously unreleased, precious lost treasure from Monk’s most critically acclaimed lineup: Charlie Rouse (sax), John Ore (double bass) and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Recorded live in Copenhagen in 1963 at the peak of Monk’s career, this music is modernist, bluesy, soulful, weird and swinging. Format: Gearbox Records Mono LP
This 1958 album was recorded live at the Five Spot Cafe with Monk on piano, Johnny Griffin on sax, Ahmed Abdul-Malik on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. Format: OJC/Riverside LP
Carnegie Hall Concert On Double LP! A forgotten November 1957 Carnegie Hall concert taped by Voice Of America radio was discovered by the Library of Congress with two appearances by the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane. Format: Universal Blue Note 2LP
Numbered, Limited Edition 180g Vinyl! Limited To 3000 Numbered Copies! All-Analog Mastering by Kevin Gray! Pressed at RTI! This item not eligible for any further discount offers! This mid-period masterwork from jazz piano's most uncommon voice finds Monk and his quartet exploring every texture, tone and melodic turn of seven expansive tracks. This group was subtle, mature and confident, easily supporting Monk's more idiosyncratic side-tracks. Format: 2 Impex Numbered Limited Edition 180g LPs
Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the May 2010 Issue of Stereophile! Pressed at Pallas in Germany! For this album, Alan Bates took Thelonious Monk into the studio for his first trio recording in fifteen years with his old sidekick Art Blakey, who is the ideal drummer for Monk. Format: Pure Pleasure Records/Black Lion Limited Edition 180g LP
Limited Edition AAA Pressing! Pressed On 180g Vinyl At RTI! Mastered & Cut From Original Tapes By Kevin Gray At Cohearent Audio! This 1958 studio album is a collaboration between the Jazz Messengers led by drummer Art Blakey and special guest Thelonious Monk on piano. Format: Analog Spark 180g LP
Vinyl Reissue Series Commemorates 65th Anniversary of Prestige Records and 90th Birthday of Legendary Engineer Rudy Van Gelder! Monk's Music is often cited as one of the focal points of Thelonious Monk's six-year affiliation (1955-61) with the Riverside label. Joining Thelonious Monk during these two recording sessions are Ray Copeland, Gigi Gryce, Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Wilbur Ware and Art Blakey. Format: OJC Fantasy LP
High Quality Pure Analogue 180g Virgin Vinyl LP! Audiophile Remastering! Monk is joined by Charlie Rouse, Butch Warren and Frankie Dunlop for this live performance in Tokyo, Japan in 1963. Format: Speakers Corner Sony 180g 2LP
180 Gram Black Vinyl! Black Lion Records Essential Reissue Series! Mastered by Bernie Grundman from Original Analog Tapes & Pressed at Pallas! London Collection, Volume 2 is the second installment of Thelonious Monk's final recording session as a band leader. The album features bassist Al McKibbon and drummer Art Blakey backing up Monk as he plays eight original tunes. Format: ORG Music Black Lion Records 180g Black Vinyl LP
Limited Edition 10" Vinyl 5LP Box Set! Includes A Booklet WIth Vintage Photos & New Liner Notes! Featuring Art Blakey, Frank Foster, Percy Heath, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins & More! Celebrating Thelonious Monk on the centennial of his birth, this limited-edition, 5-LP box set features all of the 10" LPs which the innovative pianist recorded for Prestige Records, between 1952-1954. Format: Craft Recordings Verve 10" Vinyl 5LP Box Set
Michael Fremer Rated 8/10 Music, 8/10 Sonics! 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl! For All Jazz Fans! The High Priest of Be-Bop! With its three compositions by Thelonious Monk, one might call this LP from 1964 “3 Standards and 3 Monks”. Format: Speakers Corner/Columbia 180g LP
Mono 180g Vinyl! Pressed at RTI! Classic live recordings from jazz masters Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk on one LP. Side One is high energy bebop from the Miles Davis Sextet in 1958 and Side Two includes two full numbers from the Thelonious Monk Quartet with Pee Wee Russell from 1963. Format: Sony Legacy Mono 180g LP
Vinyl Reissue Series Commemorates 65th Anniversary of Prestige Records and 90th Birthday of Legendary Engineer Rudy Van Gelder! Here are tracks from one of the truly classic sessions, in which a combination of jazz giants gathered in Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1954. With Thelonious Monk and three quarters of the Modern Jazz Quartet as his accomplices, Miles Davis blends sophisticated harmonic knowledge with raw, spontaneous invention to produce extraordinary music. Format: OJC Prestige LP
10" Vinyl! Newly Remastered For Blue Note 75th Anniversary Vinyl! Wizard of the Vibes is a compilation of performances by vibraphonist Milt Jackson with the Thelonious Monk Quintet with Lou Donaldson. Format: Universal Blue Note 10" Vinyl
Vinyl LP Reissue! Recorded in August 1958, this set contains music recorded at the Five Spot Cafe in New York City performed by Monk who is joined by Johnny Griffin on tenor sax, bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and drummer Roy Haynes. Format: OJC LP
