The Very Best of Jazz

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Blue Monk
  7:39
• 2
  Bemsha Swing
  3:11
• 3
  Just a Gigolo
  3:01
• 4
  These Foolish Things
  2:47
• 5
  Monk’s Dream
  3:07
• 6
  April in Paris
  3:53
• 7
  ’Round Midnight
  6:43
• 8
  All Alone
  4:52
• 9
  Rhythm-A-Ning
  5:19
• 10
  Straight, No Chaser
  5:28
• CD 2
• 1
  Monk’s Mood (false start)
  0:57
• 2
  Monk’s Mood
  7:52
• 3
  Trinkle, Tinkle
  6:40
• 4
  I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good
  5:56
• 5
  Caravan
  5:58
• 6
  Brilliant Corners
  7:45
• 7
  Locomotive
  6:23
• 8
  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  4:32
• 9
  Let’s Call This
  5:07
• 10
  Work
  5:15

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

• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [2.7-8, 2.10, 1.1]
• Bob Weinstock
  producer [10]
• Curley Russell
  double bass [7-8]
• Ernie Henry
  alto saxophone [6]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [7-8]
• Gary Mapp
  double bass [2, 4]
• Jack Higgins
  recording [2.2-3, 2.6, 1.6-7]
• John Coltrane
  tenor saxophone [2-3]
• Kenny Clarke
  drums (drum set) [4-5]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [1.2, 1.4, 2.6]
• Orrin Keepnews
  producer [1.6-7, 2.2-3, 2.6]
• Oscar Pettiford
  double bass [4-6]
• Percy Heath
  double bass [2.10, 1.1]
• Ray Copeland
  trumpet [7-8]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [1.1, 2.10]
• Shadow Wilson
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Sonny Rollins
  tenor saxophone [6]
• Thelonious Monk
  piano [2.2-8, 2.10, 1.1-4, 1.6-8]
• Wilbur Ware
  double bass [2-3]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of Jazz

  2x CD
  2008