85th Birthday Celebration

Tracklist

• CD 1: 1941-1956 – Monk’s Dream
• 1
  Little Rootie Tootie
  3:07
• 2
  Swing to Bop (improvisation)

  Charlie Christian
  8:55
• 3
  Flyin’ Hawk

  Coleman Hawkins
  2:50
• 4
  Hackensack
  5:13
• 5
  These Foolish Things
  2:49
• 6
  Monk’s Dream
  3:07
• 7
  Just a Gigolo
  3:02
• 8
  I Want to Be Happy

  Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins
  7:44
• 9
  Bemsha Swing

  Miles Davis
  9:34
• 10
  Mood Indigo
  3:14
• 11
  Honeysuckle Rose
  5:32
• 12
  Pannonica
  8:49
• 13
  Brilliant Corners
  7:43
• CD 2: 1957-1958 – Monk’s Mood
• 1
  ’Round Midnight
  6:42
• 2
  Monk’s Mood
  7:51
• 3
  Off Minor (take 5)
  5:10
• 4
  Ruby, My Dear
  5:27
• 5
  Trinkle, Tinkle

  Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane
  6:40
• 6
  Straight, No Chaser (take 3)

  Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk
  7:00
• 7
  I Should Care (take 3)
  3:15
• 8
  I Mean You (take 4)

  Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk
  6:52
• 9
  Let’s Cool One

  Clark Terry & Thelonious Monk
  4:57
• 10
  Rhythm-a-ning

  Thelonious Monk Quartet
  9:27
• 11
  Evidence

  Thelonious Monk Quartet
  8:48
• 12
  Epistrophy

  Thelonious Monk Quartet
  1:09
• CD 3: 1958-1961 – Blue Monk
• 1
  Nutty

  Thelonious Monk Quartet
  5:25
• 2
  In Walked Bud
  7:06
• 3
  Friday the Thirteenth
  9:32
• 4
  Thelonious
  3:03
• 5
  Ask Me Now
  10:48
• 6
  Jackie-ing
  6:07
• 7
  Blue Monk
  3:44
• 8
  Four in One

  Thelonious Monk Quartet
  8:44
• 9
  Reflections
  5:05
• 10
  Well, You Needn’t
  11:33
• 11
  Crepuscole with Nellie
  2:50

More by Thelonious Monk

Misterioso

Misterioso 2002

Monk’s Blues

Monk’s Blues 1969

Underground

Underground 1968

Straight, No Chaser

Straight, No Chaser 1967

Solo Monk

Solo Monk 1965

Monk.

Monk. 1964

Release credits

• Ahmed Abdul‐Malik
  bass [2.10-12, 3.1], double bass [11]
• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.4, 1.6, 1.11, 2.3-4, 3.10]
• Art Taylor
  drums (drum set) [1.8, 3.2-6]
• Billy Higgins
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Bob Weinstock
  producer [8]
• Charlie Christian
  guitar [2]
• Charlie Rouse
  tenor saxophone [2-6, 8, 11]
• Clark Terry
  flugelhorn [9]
• Coleman Hawkins
  tenor saxophone [3.10, 2.3-4]
• Curley Russell
  double bass [4]
• Donald Byrd
  trumpet [3-4]
• Eddie Bert
  trombone [3-4]
• Ernie Henry
  alto saxophone [12-13]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [4]
• Frankie Dunlop
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Gary Mapp
  double bass [1, 5-6]
• Gerry Mulligan
  baritone saxophone [6, 8]
• Gigi Gryce
  alto saxophone [2.3, 3.10]
• Harold Land
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Jack Higgins
  engineer [9], recording [1.12-13, 3.5-6, 2.1-2, 2.5-8]
• Jay McAllister
  tuba [3-4]
• Joe Gordon
  trumpet [8]
• Joe Guy
  trumpet [2]
• John Coltrane
  tenor saxophone [2.2-3, 2.5, 3.10]
• John Ore
  double bass [8, 11]
• Johnny Griffin
  tenor saxophone [3.1, 2.10-12]
• Kenny Clarke
  drums (drum set) [2, 9-10]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [5, 12-13]
• Miles Davis
  trumpet [9]
• Milt Jackson
  vibraphone [9]
• Nick Fenton
  double bass [2]
• Orrin Keepnews
  producer [2.1-2, 2.5-9, 3.1, 3.3-7, 3.9, 1.11-13]
• Oscar Pettiford
  double bass [10-13]
• Pepper Adams
  baritone saxophone [3-4]
• Percy Heath
  bass [9], double bass [9]
• Phil Woods
  alto saxophone [3-4]
• Philly Joe Jones
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Ray Copeland
  trumpet [2.3, 1.4, 3.10]
• Ray Fowler
  engineer [6, 8], recording [1]
• Reice Hamel
  recording [7, 9]
• Robert Northern
  French horn [3-4]
• Roy Haynes
  drums (drum set) [2.10-12, 3.1]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [8]
• Sam Jones
  bass [2-6], double bass [9]
• Shadow Wilson
  drums (drum set) [5-6, 8]
• Sonny Rollins
  tenor saxophone [8, 12-13]
• Thad Jones
  cornet [5-6]
• Thelonious Monk
  celesta [12], piano [2.1-12, 3.1-11, 1.1-2, 1.4-13]
• Tommy Potter
  double bass [8]
• Wilbur Ware
  bass [6, 8], double bass [3.10, 2.2-5]
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Issues

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  85th Birthday Celebration

  3x CD
  14 October 2002