Artist	Song
Coleman Hawkins	On the Bean (Complete Prestige Monk, 1944)
Thelonious Monk	Bye-Ya (Thelonious Monk, 1952)
Thelonious Monk	Little Rootie Tootie (Thelonious Monk, 1952)
Thelonious Monk	Trinkle Tinkle (Thelonious Monk, 1952)
Thelonious Monk	Work (Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins, 1954)
Thelonious Monk	Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk, 1954)
Thelonious Monk	Honeysuckle Rose (The Unique Thelonious Monk 1956)
Thelonious Monk	Black and Tan Fantasy (Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington 1955)
Thelonious Monk	Functional (Thelonious Himself 1957)
Thelonious Monk	Sweet and Lovely (Solo Monk 1964)
Thelonious Monk	Sweet and Lovely (Thelonious Monk, 1952)
Thelonious Monk	Bluehawk (Thelonious Alone in San Francisco 1959)
Thelonious Monk	Pannonica (Thelonious Alone in San Francisco 1959)
Thelonious Monk	Solitude (Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington 1955)

Comment:

The last mix of Monk songs I did was sort of lame. Not the music, mind you, just my organizational technique. Like using 3 songs from Discovery!. My mixing judgement was clouded by what I consider to be the greatest live record of all time. (If they ever released a 100 cd box set consisting of that quartet with Coltrane he had at the Five Spot for 8 months in 1957, I would sell my car to buy it, then spend the next 4 years of my life listening to nothing else. Unfortunately, the Discovery! record seems to be the only tape of that band.) Anyway, I thought it might be helpful to listen to Monk without horns. So, aside from the first track with Hawkins (Monk's first session) this is all solo or trio music. Next will be a mix with songs he wrote in the sixties that came out on the records he did for Columbia. People give that stuff short shrift, but Solo Monk was the second album of his I got and it's in my top 5.

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