April 5 (for Monk's Mood), 12 and 16 (for solo titles), 1957 New York City
Genre
Jazz
Length
66:28
Label
Riverside RLP 12-235
Producer
Orrin Keepnews
Thelonious Monk chronology
Brilliant Corners (1957)
Thelonious Himself (1957)
Monk's Music (1957)
Thelonious Himself is a studio album by Thelonious Monk released in 1957 by Riverside Records.[1] It was Monk's fourth album for the label. The album features Monk playing solo piano, except for the final track, "Monk's Mood", which features John Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Wilbur Ware on bass. It was Monk's second solo piano studio album, and it was the first made by an American label and distributed in the United States. (Monk's first extended solo piano recording, Piano Solo, was recorded in Paris during June 1954, initially for the purpose of providing material for a radio broadcast.[2] Monk had also recorded individual solo piano tracks for Prestige and Riverside records during the early and mid 1950s.)
The original CD reissue, released in 1987 via Original Jazz Classics/Riverside Records, includes an extensive 22-minute solo recording of "'Round Midnight" outtakes and experimentation in the studio. A subsequent reissue, the Keepnews Collection edition, released in 2008 via Riverside Records, omits this sequence in favor of outtakes and alternate versions of several other tracks from the album. In the liner notes, Keepnews states that including the original "'Round Midnight" outtake "would have required eliminating virtually every existing alternate take of other selections — five other examples of this pianist's improvisational genius."
^Thelonious Himself at AllMusic
^Thelonious Himself at AllMusic
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