Eight Classic Albums

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  We See
  5:17
• 2
  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  4:32
• 3
  Locomotive
  6:23
• 4
  Hackensack
  5:12
• 5
  Let’s Call This
  5:40
• 6
  Think of One (Take 2)
  5:07
• 7
  Think of One (Take 1)
  5:46
• 8
  Abide With Me
  0:54
• 9
  Well, You Needn’t
  11:25
• 10
  Ruby, My Dear
  5:26
• 11
  Off Minor
  5:08
• 12
  Epistrophy
  10:45
• 13
  Crepuscule With Nellie
  4:40
• CD 2
• 1
  It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
  4:42
• 2
  Sophisticated Lady
  4:31
• 3
  I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good
  5:56
• 4
  Black and Tan Fantasy
  3:27
• 5
  Mood Indigo
  3:16
• 6
  I Let a Song Go Out of My Head
  5:43
• 7
  Solitude
  3:45
• 8
  Caravan
  5:59
• 9
  Liza (All The Clouds’ll Roll Away)
  3:13
• 10
  Memories of You
  4:17
• 11
  Honeysuckle Rose
  5:34
• 12
  Darn That Dream
  6:30
• 13
  Tea for Two
  5:55
• 14
  You Are Too Beautiful
  4:56
• 15
  Just You, Just Me
  7:57
• CD 3
• 1
  Round Midnight
  8:29
• 2
  Rhythm-a-ning
  5:19
• 3
  Sweet and Lovely
  7:17
• 4
  Decidedly
  5:54
• 5
  Straight, No Chaser
  7:00
• 6
  I Mean You
  6:53
• 7
  The Way You Look Tonight
  5:15
• 8
  I Want to Be Happy
  7:45
• 9
  Work
  5:20
• 10
  Nutty
  5:19
• 11
  Friday the 13th
  10:36
• CD 4
• 1
  Evidence
  6:46
• 2
  In Walked Bud
  6:39
• 3
  Blue Monk
  7:54
• 4
  I Mean You
  8:02
• 5
  Rhythm-a-ning
  7:20
• 6
  Purple Shades
  7:48
• 7
  Blue Monk
  7:39
• 8
  Just a Gigolo
  2:59
• 9
  Bemsha Swing
  3:11
• 10
  Reflections
  2:49
• 11
  Little Rootie Tootie
  3:07
• 12
  Sweet and Lovely
  3:36
• 13
  Bye-Ya
  2:48
• 14
  Monk’s Dream
  3:08
• 15
  Trinkle, Tinkle
  2:50
• 16
  These Foolish Things
  2:48

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 [10]
• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [2.9, 2.11-15, 1.1-4, 1.9-13, 3.9, 4.1-7, 4.11-14]
• Art Taylor
  drums (drum set) [7-8]
• Bill Hardman
  trumpet [1-6]
• Bob Weinstock
  producer [7-9]
• Coleman Hawkins
  tenor saxophone [8-13]
• Curley Russell
  double bass [1-4]
• Earle Brown
  recording [1-6]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [1-4]
• Gary Mapp
  double bass [9-16]
• Gerry Mulligan
  baritone saxophone [1-6]
• Gigi Gryce
  alto saxophone [8-9, 11-13]
• Ira Gitler
  producer [11]
• Jack Higgins
  recording [1-6]
• Jimmy "Spanky" DeBrest
  bass [1-6]
• John Coltrane
  tenor saxophone [8-9, 11-13]
• Johnny Griffin
  tenor saxophone [3.10, 4.1-6]
• Julius Watkins
  French horn [1.7, 3.11]
• Kenny Clarke
  drums (drum set) [1-6, 8]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [9-10, 15-16]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [1-6]
• Orrin Keepnews
  producer [2.9-15, 3.1-6, 3.10]
• Oscar Pettiford
  double bass [1-6, 8-9, 11-15]
• Percy Heath
  double bass [3.9, 3.11, 1.7, 4.7]
• Ray Copeland
  trumpet [1-4, 8-9, 11-13]
• Ray Fowler
  engineer [1-6], recording [10]
• Roy Haynes
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [4.7, 3.7-9, 3.11]
• Shadow Wilson
  drums (drum set) [1-6]
• Sonny Rollins
  tenor saxophone [1.7, 3.7-8, 3.11]
• Thelonious Monk
  arranger [8], piano [3.1-11, 1.1-4, 1.7, 1.9-13, 2.1-15, 4.1-16]
• Tommy Potter
  double bass [7-8]
• Wilbur Ware
  bass [1-6], double bass [9-13]
• Willie Jones
  drums (drum set) [1.7, 3.11]
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Issues

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  Eight Classic Albums

  4x CD
  2010