Artist	Song
Thelonious Monk	Lulu's Back In Town
from It's Monk's Time (2003)
Thelonious Monk	Played Twice
from Big Band and Quartet In Concert (1994)
Thelonious Monk	I'll Follow You
from Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 2 (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2001)
Thelonious Monk	Shuffle Boil (Retake)
from It's Monk's Time (2003)
Thelonious Monk	It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
from Riverside Profiles: Thelonious Monk (2006)
Thelonious Monk	San Francisco Holiday
from Thelonious Monk In Italy (2006)
Thelonious Monk	Tea for Two
from Criss-Cross (2003)
Thelonious Monk	Humph
from Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2001)
Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane	Crepescule With Nellie
from At Carnegie Hall (2005)
Thelonious Monk	Don't Blame Me (Retake 1)
from Criss-Cross (2003)
Thelonious Monk	Raise Four
from Underground (1997)
Thelonious Monk	Monk's Point
from Solo Monk (2003)
Thelonious Monk Quartet	Light Blue
from Thelonious In Action (Remastered) [Live] (2006)
Thelonious Monk	Stuffy Turkey
from It's Monk's Time (2003)
Thelonious Monk	Dinah (Take 2)
from Solo Monk (2003)
Thelonious Monk	Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
from The Unique Thelonious Monk (2006)
Thelonious Monk	Sophisticated Lady
from Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington (2006)
Thelonious Monk	Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 11)
from Underground (1997)
Thelonious Monk Quartet	Coming On the Hudson
from Thelonious In Action (Remastered) [Live] (2006)
Thelonious Monk Quartet	Sweet and Lovely
from Monk's Dream (2002)
Thelonious Monk	Just You, Just Me
from Live At the Jazz Workshop - Complete (2001)
Thelonious Monk	Nice Work If You Can Get It (Take 3)
from Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1962-1968) (1998)
Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane	Nutty
from At Carnegie Hall (2005)
Thelonious Monk	April In Paris
from The Complete Blue Note Recordings (1994)
Thelonious Monk	Skippy
from The Complete Blue Note Recordings (1994)

Comment:

Working within different contexts (quartets, solo, the occasional big-band date), Monk demonstrated his music’s ability to adapt. Often revisiting favorite numbers, he always brought something new and surprising — in fact, we’re not sure if we’ve ever heard a bad Monk performance. Here, there’s plenty of room to immerse yourself in his super-sized talent: “Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away”) from his second Riverside album, The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956), is a delightful Gershwin cover, played at cannonball-express tempo and showcasing wonderful interplay between the pianist and drummer Art Blakey; “Nutty” finds Monk in outstanding form alongside John Coltrane.

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