The Very Best

Tracklist

• 1
  Thelonious
  3:01
• 2
  Ruby, My Dear
  3:10
• 3
  Well, You Needn't
  2:59
• 4
  In Walked Bud
  2:57
• 5
  'Round Midnight
  3:12
• 6
  Evidence
  2:34
• 7
  Misterioso
  3:22
• 8
  Epistrophy
  3:07
• 9
  I Mean You
  2:47
• 10
  Criss Cross
  2:57
• 11
  Ask Me Now
  3:17
• 12
  Straight, No Chaser
  2:59
• 13
  Let's Cool One
  3:46

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

• Al McKibbon
  double bass [10-12]
• Alfred Lion
  producer [1-5]
• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [1-5, 10-12]
• Billy Smith
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Bob Paige
  double bass [4-5]
• Danny Quebec West
  alto saxophone [1]
• Doug Hawkins
  recording [1-5]
• Gene Ramey
  double bass [1-3]
• George Taitt
  trumpet [4-5]
• Idrees Sulieman
  trumpet [1]
• John Simmons
  bass [6], double bass [6-8]
• Kenny Dorham
  trumpet [13]
• Lou Donaldson
  alto saxophone [13]
• Lucky Thompson
  tenor saxophone [13]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Milt Jackson
  vibraphone [6-8, 10, 12]
• Milton Jackson
  vibraphone [7]
• Nelson Boyd
  double bass [13]
• Sahib Shihab
  alto saxophone [4-5, 10, 12]
• Shadow Wilson
  drums (drum set) [6, 6-8]
• Thelonious Monk
  piano [1-8, 10-13]
• Show all credits (21)

Issues

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  The Very Best

  CD
  24 May 2005