Thelonious Monk discography

Blue Note Records (1948–1952)

Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (1947 Blue Note recordings)

Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (July 23, 1951 and May 30, 1952 Blue Note recording sessions)

Prestige Records and Vogue (1952–1954)

Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige 7027), 1952–4

Monk (Prestige 7053) recorded 1953-4

Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige 7075), recorded 1953-4

Solo 1954/Piano Solo (Disques Vogue, 1954) - first solo piano album, recorded in Paris

Riverside Records (1955–1961)

Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)

The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)

Brilliant Corners (1956 recording with Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry)

Thelonious Himself (1957)

Monk's Music (1957)

Mulligan Meets Monk (1957, with Gerry Mulligan)

Thelonious in Action and Misterioso (1958, live at the Five Spot with Johnny Griffin)

The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959, Charlie Rouse joined the band then)

5 by Monk by 5 (1959)

Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959)

Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (1960, with Charlie Rouse)

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1957 recordings, 1961 issue) – Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.

Monk in France (recorded in 1961)

Thelonious Monk in Italy (recorded 1961, released 1963)

Thelonious Monk Quartet Live at the Five Spot: Discovery! (with Coltrane recorded 1957, released in 1993 on Blue Note)

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (1957, released 2005 on Blue Note.)

The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2006 collection of the 1957 studio recordings with Coltrane)

Columbia Records (1962–1968)

Monk's Dream (1963)

Criss-Cross (1963)

Monk in Tokyo (1963)

Miles & Monk at Newport (1963, with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance)

Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963)

It's Monk's Time (1964)

Monk (1964)

Solo Monk (1964)

Live at the It Club (1964)

Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)

Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) (1965)

Straight, No Chaser (1967)

Underground (1968)

Monk's Blues (1968)

Far East Records (1970)

Monk in Tokyo (1970, live, with Paul Jeffrey ts, Larry Ridley b, Lenny McBrowne d)

Black Lion Records (1971)

Something in Blue, Nice Work in London, Blue Sphere and The Man I Love (all 1971 recordings, collected in The London Collection 1988, three individual CDs)

As sideman

With Art Blakey

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Atlantic, 1958)

The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic, 1971)

With Miles Davis

Bags' Groove (Prestige, 1954)

Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (Prestige, 1954)

With Coleman Hawkins

Bean and the Boys (Prestige, 1944)

With Milt Jackson

Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note, 1948)

With Sonny Rollins

Moving Out (Prestige, 1954)

Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957)

With Gigi Gryce

Nica's Tempo (Savoy, 1955)

With Clark Terry

In Orbit (Riverside, 1958)

Compilations

Monk's Miracles (1966)

Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 (France Concert LP FC-113, 1967)

Monk's Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1968)

Midnight at Minton's (c.1941, issued 1973 under Don Byas' name. Monk does not play on all tracks of this or the other two CDs of 1941 material)

After Hours (c.1941, issued 1973 under Charlie Christian's name)

After Hours in Harlem (c.1941, issued 1973 under Hot Lips Page's name)

April in Paris (1981 2-LP set of the April 18, 1961 Paris recordings)

Monk's Classic Recordings (1983)

Blues Five Spot (1984, unissued recordings from 1958–61, with various saxophonists and Thad Jones, cornet)

The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1991, 15 CD, Riverside)

The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1994, 4 CD, Blue Note)

Live at Monterey Jazz Festival '63 (sept. 21–2, 1963, MFSL, 2 vols. issued 1996-7)

Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 (1998, 2 CD, Sony)

The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk (2000, 3 CD, Prestige)

The Columbia Years: '62–'68 (2001, 3 CD, Sony)

The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions (1954–71) (3LP, Mosaic)

All Monk. The Riverside Albums (2010, 16 CD, Universal)

The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (2012, 6 CD, Sony)