On Thelonious Monk

[gvopedz]

“But Monk’s wholly original songwriting is his most lasting legacy. Taking intro, verse, refrain, bridge, coda, and “hook”—all the humble nonlinguistic bones of song—he bent them toward his own specific needs and vision. In this sense, he becomes part of a broader renaissance of American song in the second half of the twentieth century.”

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/jazz-is-freedom-grimstad

 

[John L]

There is no question about Monk's greatness as a composer.  But I consider the unique way that Monk played music to be at least as great a legacy. 

[jazzbo]

Monk was amazing. And strange. His earliest recordings show him as a sort of Teddy Wilson/Art Tatum player, or at least far more so than later. Then it seems to me that he had a sort of Ellingtonian phase and that he edited his playing down to essentials and beyond . . . until finally he was edited down to silence!

He was able to create captivating ear worms that become major melody components. You can listen to him all your life without fatigue.

[JSngry]

11 hours ago, gvopedz said:

 In this sense, he becomes part of a broader renaissance of American song in the second half of the twentieth century.”

This is probably/maybe true, but I'm not sure that it is relevant, especially going forth. I think he's a lot more/bigger than that. Especially the "song" part of it, because as "song" continues to evolve/devolve/revolve, Monk's profundity continues to reveal itself as it's own thing, a very standalone reality.

[felser]

Very early on in my jazz life, I encountered a Riverside reissue of Monk's live recordings called "Two Hours With Thelonious" at JC Fields for like $.57.  I had heard of him, but never heard him.  I picked it up, took it home, listened to it, and was spellbound for hours.  No one like him.  Has there ever been a really good biography written on him?

[Milestones]

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by D. G. Kelley. It was published in 2009.

 

[T.D.]

3 minutes ago, Milestones said:

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by D. G. Kelley. It was published in 2009.

 

+1. Outstanding work.

[Milestones]

Can anyone tell me who else has recorded "Locomotive"?   Monk set it down twice in the studio (a decade or so apart), and other than that I just have Frank Kimbrough's version.  I always liked this tune.

 

 

[Mark Stryker]

1 hour ago, Milestones said:

Can anyone tell me who else has recorded "Locomotive"?   Monk set it down twice in the studio (a decade or so apart), and other than that I just have Frank Kimbrough's version.  I always liked this tune.

 

 

Here are the listings in the Tom Lord Jazz Discography for songs titled "Locomotive" recorded after Monk's original. Note that there could be multiple songs with that title, so some of these are likely not the Monk song, though artist/context makes many of them fairly clear.

 

[M9499]Add   Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk Quintet : Ray Copeland (tp) Frank Foster (ts) Thelonious Monk (p) Curly Russell (b) Art Blakey (d)

Hackensack, N.J., May 11, 1954

570	We see [Wee see]	Prest PRLP180, Metronome (Swd)MEP284, Le Chant Du
		Monde (F)2741365 [CD]
571	Smoke gets in your eyes	Prest PRLP180, Metronome (Swd)MEP284, Giants of
		Jazz (It)LPJT58, Smithsonian P6-11891, RD039 [CD]
572	Locomotive	Prest PRLP180, Metronome (Swd)MEP285, Le Chant Du
		Monde (F)2741365 [CD]
573	Hackensack	Prest PRLP180, Metronome (Swd)MEP285, Prestige
		PRCD-24251-2 [CD]

Note:

Smithsonian R039 [CD] titled "Jazz piano". All above titles also on Prestige PRLP180, PRLP7053, PRLP7245, (S)PR7245, PR7363, PRST7363, PR7848, PR24006, OJC 016, Prestige (F)68.321, 68.366/8, (Du)PPR082, MPR-S3082, (It)HB6004, (Jap)SMJ-6626, LPR-88008, VICJ-23613 [CD], VICJ-2027 [CD], Barclay (F)BLP84015, BLP84082, Bellaphon (G)BLST6516, Esquire (E)20-039, 32-109, Stateside (E)SL10152, Craft 00031, Prestige (Eu)CDJZD009 [CD], OJC CD016-2 [CD], Properbox (E)101 [CD], Prestige 3PRCD-4428-2 [CD].

[L122] Add   Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy Quartet : same pers

New York, September, 1964

	Locomotive	(unissued)    Verve
	Hornin' in	-
	Coming on the Hudson	-
	I mean you	-

[M9591] Add   Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk Quartet : same pers

New York, November 15, 1966

CO 92020	Locomotive	Columbia CL2651, 9451, (Eu)468409-2 [CD],
		Columbia/Legacy CK64886 [CD], 88697-95768-2 [CD]

[D4835]Add   Klaus Doldinger

Skyblue : Passport : Klaus Doldinger (ts,sop,fl,keyboards) Hendrik Schaper (keyboards) Roy Louis (g) Dieter Petereit (el-b) Willy Ketzer (d) Elmer Louis (perc) Guilhermo Marchena (vcl,perc)

Isartal, Germany, 1978

34892	Ataraxia (part 1)	Atlantic SD19177
34893	Ataraxia (part 2)	-
34894	Sky blue	-
34895	Mandrake	-
34896	Reng ding dang dong	-
34897	Loco-motive	-       , 3487
34898	The secret	-
34899	Louisiana	-
34900	Alegria	-

Note:

Master numbers were added later by Atlantic US. The above session probably originally issued on Atlantic (G) but number is unknown. All above titles also on Amiga (G)8.55.668.

[F918]Add   Victor Feldman

Soft Shoulder : Generation Band : Ernie Watts (sop,fl) Tom Scott (reeds) Victor Feldman (p) Robben Ford (el-g) Jake Feldman (el-b) Trevor Feldman (d)

Hollywood, Ca., c. 1981

	Come on home	Palo Alto PA8054N, TBA 8054 [CD]
	Soft shoulder	-            -
	Leroy	-            -
	Locomotive	-            -
	Chasin' the sunrise	-            -
	Emerald Isle	-            -

[W9535]Add   Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (vcl,keyboards,p,perc)

Recorded at Robert Wyatt's home, England, early 1980's

Locomotive

Rough Trade (E)R3112 [CD]

[R1314]Add   Richard Raux

Feel Good At Last : Richard Raux (ts) Alain Jean-Marie (p) Alby Cullaz (b) George Brown (d)

Paris, June 16 & 17, 1983

	Morning blues raga	Free Lance (F)FRL004
	With love inside	-
	Ballad for Jeremy	-
	Feel good at last	-
	Confirmation	-
	Locomotive	-
	Mood indigo	-
	Miles' mode	-

[L2185]Add   Luc Le Masne

Le Cercle De Pierres : Grand Orchestre Bekummernis : Michel Barre, Bernard Della Nave, Howard Hyde, Michel Torreilles (tp) Philippe Lapeyre, Stefan Legee (tb) Denis Davazoglou (b-tb) Gabriel Capet, Philippe Legris (tu) Florent Barrois, Jean-Michel Tavernier (fhr) Youenn Le Berre (fl,pic) Nano Peylet (cl) Denis Colin (cl,b-cl) Francois Creamer (b-cl) Bertrand Auger (b-cl-1) Jacques Zanettacci (oboe,eng-hrn) Simon Spang-Hanssen (sop,ts) Philippe Sellam (as) Francois Cotinaud (ts,sop) Carl Schlosser (bar) Jean-Pierre Chaty (bassax) Jean-Michel Bernard (p) Vincent Le Masne (synt-3,dir) Francois Moutin (b) Michel Risse (d-2,perc-3) Louis Moutin (d-4) Pierre Marcault (cga,perc) Vincent Limouzin (marimba,vib,xyl,perc) Laurent Petitgirard (dir-5) Luc Le Masne (comp,dir)

Paris, summer 1986

	Le cercle de pierres (2,5)	Menelas (F)MEN002 [CD]
	I mouvement	-
	Prologue
	Les neuf Pierres
	Epilogue
	II mouvement	-
	1re partie
	2e partie
	III mouvement	-
	Choral
	Aquhorthies
	Spirale
	Choral
	Locomotive (1,4,5)	-
	Locomotive
	Blues
	Gospel
	Fifty-fifty (2,4)	-
	1re partie
	2e partie
	3e partie

[N634]Add   Buell Neidlinger

Thelonious : Buell Neidlinger/Marty Krystall : Marty Krystall (ts,as) John Beasley (p) Buell Neidlinger (b) Billy Osborne (d)

Burbank, CA, November, 1986

	Thelonious	K2B2 Records 2569
	Trinkle tinkle	-
	Bye-ya	-
	Crepuscule with Nellie	-    , 2969 [CD]
	Locomotive	-    , 2969 [CD]
	Who knows ?	-
	Ask me now	-
	Jackie-ing	-    , 2969 [CD]

[B13306]Add   Peter Brotzmann

Low Life : Peter Brotzmann/Bill Laswell : Peter Brotzmann (bassax) Bill Laswell (el-b)

New York, January 3-6, 1987

	Death rattle	Celluloid CEL5016, CELD5016 [CD]
	Low life	-         -
	Disengage	-         -
	Locomotive	-         -
	Barrier	-         -
	Wheeling vultures	-         -
	Curved dog	-         -
	Abasement	-         -
	Land one	-         -
	Tingle hairs	-         -
	The last detective	-         -

Note:

All above titles also on Jazzwerkstatt (G)JW012 [CD].

[N635]Add   Buell Neidlinger

Locomotive : Buell Neidlinger's String Jazz : Marty Krystall (ts) Brenton Banks (vln) Buell Neidlinger (b) Jon Kurnick (mand) Billy Osborne (d)

Milan, Italy, June 24 & 25, 1987

	Rockin' in rhythm	Soul Note (It)121161-1, (It)121161-2 [CD]
	Raise four	-              -
	Locomotive	-              -
	Jumpin' punkins	-              -
	Skippy	-              -
	Jackie-ing	-              -
	I mean you	-              -
	Subtle slough	-              -
	Brake's sake	-              -
	Boo Boo's birthday	-              -
	Main stem	-              -

Note:

Soul Note (It)SN1161 = (It)121161-1.

[G3321]Add   Eddie Gomez

Power Play : Michael Brecker (ts) Dick Oatts (sop,as,ts) Jeremy Steig (fl) LeeAnn Ledgerwood, Michael Cochrane (keyboard) Jim Hall (g-1) Eddie Gomez (b) Steve Gadd, Al Foster (d) Ann Bristol, Kimiko Itoh (vcl)

New York, November, 1987

	Mr. Go	Columbia FC44214, CK44214 [CD]
	Power play	-         -
	W. 110th St	-         -
	Spanish flower	-         -
	Forever (ab,ki, vcl)	-         -
	Mel	-         -
	Amethyst (1)	-         -
	Locomotive	-         -
	Very early	-

Note:

All above titles on Epic (E)461184-1 and (E)461184-2 [CD], A Touch (Jap)32.8H-5004 [CD]. All titles on Columbia FC44214 also on A Touch (Jap)28.3H-5004.

[N635.20]Add   Buell Neidlinger

Thelonious Atmosphere : Buell Neidlinger 5 : Hugh Schick (tp) Marty Krystall (ts,b-cl) Jerry Peters (synt,keyboards) Buell Neidlinger (b) William Jeffrey (d)

Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, summer 1988

	Epistrophy	K2B2 Records 3269 [CD]
	Thelonious	-
	Little rootie tootie	-
	Locomotive	-
	Skippy	-

[M8776]Add   Red Mitchell

Talking : Kenny Barron (p) Red Mitchell (b) Ben Riley (d)

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., January 10 & 11, 1989

	Talking	Capri 74016-2 [CD]
	I'm old fashioned	-
	The purest heart [For lady]	-
	Pennies for Sue	-
	Don't explain	-
	El Sueno	-
	Er-um-uh	-
	She's funny that way	-
	Heaven's here	-
	Locomotive	-

[T4929] Add   Stan Tracey

same pers

Live "The Jazz Club", Hong Kong, March 29, 1991

	Playin' in the yard (2)	(unissued)
	Some other blues (2)	-
	Monk's dream (2)	-
	Lover man (2)	-
	Li'l ol' Pottsville (2)	-
	Exactly like you (1)	-
	'Round midnight (2)	-
	Triple celebration (2)	-
	Locomotive (2)	-
	G minor blues (2)	-
	A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square (2)	-
	First moves (2)	-
	Let's cool one (2)	-
	Afro blue (1)	-
	You stepped out of a dream (2)	-
	Body and soul (2)	-
	Autumn leaves (1)	-

[Y107]Add   Yoshiyuki Yamanaka

Blue Rouse : Yoshiyuki Yamanaka Quartet : Yoshiyuki Yamanaka (ts) Kenichi Yoshida (p) Teiji Sasaki (b) Yasushi Hiroe (d)

Tokyo, August 28 & 29, 1993

	Unsung hero	Paddle Wheel (Jap)KICJ-179 [CD]
	Evidence	-
	Blue Rouse	-
	Eronel	-
	Locomotive	-
	If you could see me now	-
	Hackensack	-
	Nutty	-
	Reflections	-

[T3517]Add   Ti Sha Man Nah Saxophone Quartet

"Summertime In Jazz", Prato 1993 : Fabio Peretti (ts,sop) Gianluca Mattel (as) Carlo Fabbri (as,ts) Stefano Fariselli (bar)

Live, Prato, September 3, 1993

	Locomotive	Splasc(h) (It)CDH411-2 [CD]
	Biss	-
	Alley cat	-
	Dabaraban	-

Note:

Other titles by other leaders.

[K889.20]Add   Roland Keijser

Saxophone Valley : Roland Keijser Quartet : Roland Keijser (ts,as,bansuri) Tommy Kotter (p) Bengt Hanson, Markus Wikstrom (b) Gilbert Matthews (d)

Stockholm, January 30, 1998-May 12, 1999

	Locomotive	Sittel (Swd)SITCD9264 [CD]
	Swedish schnapps	-
	Kids know valse hot	-
	Why don't I	-
	Sunset eyes	-
	Hamdusiyya	-
	Saxophone valley	-

[S13742]Add   Andy Summers

Green Chimneys (The Music Of Thelonious Monk) : Walt Fowler (tp) Steve Tavaglione (sop,ts,cl) Joey DeFrancesco (org) Andy Summers (g,bj,dobro) Hank Roberts (cello) Dave Carpenter (b,el-b) Peter Erskine (d) Bernie Dresel (d-2) Sting (vcl-1)

Hollywood, CA, September-November 1998

	Green chimneys	RCA 09026-63472-2 [CD]
	Hackensack	-
	Brilliant corners	-
	Monk's dream	-
	'Round midnight (1)	-
	Bemsha swing	-
	Shuffle boil	-
	Boo Boo's birthday (2)	-
	Evidence	-
	Ugly beauty	-
	Think of one	-
	(Medley	-
	Light blue	-
	Rhythm-a-ning (2)	-
	Ruby my dear	-
	Crepescule with Nellie	Rare (E)RAR1002 [CD]
	Locomotive	-
	Off minor	-
	Ruby my dear (electric version)	-

Note:

All above titles also on Rare (E)RAR1002 [CD] titled "Green Chimneys (The Music of Thelonious Monk)".

[S2103.10]Add   Michiel Scheen

Sphere's Works : Michiel Scheen (p)

Amsterdam, December, 1998

	Green chimneys	Filiaal (Du)3 [CD]
	Bye-ya	-
	Epistrophy	-
	Locomotive	-
	Brilliant corners	-
	Jackie-ing	-
	Played twice	-
	Pannonica	-
	'Round midnight	-
	Off minor	-
	Stuffy turkey	-
	Bemsha swing	-
	New swing	-
	(Medley	-
	We see	-
	Monk's point	-

[J3328.3]Add   Noel Jewkes

Noel Jewkes Quartet at The Limeleaf, Vol. 2 : Noel Jewkes (ts,sop) John Opferkuch (p) Rob Tornsen (b) Duncan Moore (d)

Live "Limeleaf Restaurant", La Jolla, CA, July 23 & 24, 1999

	Soft light and sweet music	Jim Merod Music JM-05 [CD]
	Gloria	-
	The dolphins	-
	I only have eyes for you	-
	Bruce is loose	-
	I want a butter and egg man	-
	Limehouse line [Limehouse blues]	-
	Locomotive	-

[M5762.20]Add   Mike Melillo

Timeless Monk : Mike Melillo/Franco D'Andrea : Mike Melillo, Franco D'Andrea (p)

Milan, November 22, 1999

	Work	Philology (It)W172-2 [CD]
	Let's call this	-
	Monk's mood	-
	Friday the 13	-
	Evidence	-
	Misterioso	-
	Locomotive	-
	Pannonica	-
	Ba lues bolivar ba lues are	-
	Timeless Monk	-
	Monk's mood (II)	-

[A693]Add   Ulf Adaker

Monk By Five : Ulf Adaker/Joakim Milder/Bobo Stenson/Palle Danielsson/Jonas Holgersson : Ulf Adaker (tp) Joakim Milder (ts) Bobo Stenson (p) Palle Danielsson (b) Jonas Holgersson (d)

Sundbyberg, September 2 & October 2, 2000

	Let's call this	Touche Music (Swd)TMcCD012 [CD]
	Worry later	-
	Pannonica	-
	Think of one	-
	Light blue	-
	Evidence	-
	Ugly beauty	-
	Locomotive	-
	Bemsha swing	-
	Ruby my dear	-
	Bye-ya	-
	Monk's dream	-

[B16154.20]Add   Jeffrey Burr

Bright Blue : Jeffrey Burr (g) John Hebert (b) Ari Hoenig (d)

2001

	Locomotive (part I)	Jeffrey Burr (no #) [CD]
	Wayne's refrain	-
	Legal eyes	-
	Myoko	-
	Poem	-
	Say say o playmate	-
	Somewhere out there	-
	Zombiecavemanrobot	-
	Zombiecavemanrobot	-
	The logician	-
	Han solo and the princess	-
	Locomotive (part II)	-

[J6051]Add   Vic Juris

Songbook 2 : Vic Juris (g) Michael Formanek (b) Jeff Hirshfield (d)

New York ?, March, 2001

	Long ago and far away	SteepleChase (Dan)SCCD31516 [CD]
	Poor butterfly	-
	Django	-
	Swedish pastry	-
	You won't forget me	-
	Gloria's step	-
	Giant steps	-
	One true friend	-
	Golden earrings	-
	Peace	-
	Locomotive	-

[C1617]Add   Frank Carlberg

Prelude : Frank Carlberg/Masa Kamuguchi/Jimmy Weinstein : Frank Carlberg (p) Masa Kamaguchi (b) Jimmy Weinstein (d)

Brooklyn, NY, May 30, 2001

	Prelude	Splasc(h) (It)CDH839 [CD]
	Locomotive	-
	El segundo	-
	Fast blues	-
	Interlude	-
	Little rootie tootie	-
	Juha	-
	Blind drive	-
	Fantasy	-
	Postlude	-

[S9866.10]Add   Paolo Sorge

Trinkle Trio : Paolo Sorge (g) Michel Godard (tu) Francesco Cusa (d)

Catania, Italy, February, 2002

	Prologo	Auand (It)AU9003 [CD]
	I mean you	-
	Evidence	-
	Bye-ya	-
	Crepuscule with Nellie	-
	Trinkle tinkle	-
	Misterioso	-
	Ask me now	-
	Monk's mood	-
	Friday the 13th	-
	Locomotive	-
	Little rootie tootie	-
	Epilogo	-

[M9611.30]Add   Monk's Casino

The Complete Works of Thelonious Monk : Axel Dorner (tp,p-1) Rudi Mahall (b-cl) Alexander Von Schlippenbach (p,tp-2) Aki Takase (toy-p-3) Jan Roder (b) Uli Jennessen (d)

Live "A-Trane", Berlin, Germany, June 19 & 20, 2003, February 24 & 25, 2004

	Thelonious	Intakt (Swi)CD100 [CD]
	Locomotive	-
	Trinkle-tinkle	-
	Stuffy turkey	-
	Coming on the Hudson	-
	Intro Bemsha swing	-
	(Medley	-
	Bemsha swing	-
	52nd Street theme	-
	Pannonica	-
	Evidence	-
	(Medley	-
	Misterioso	-
	Sixteen	-
	Skippy	-
	Monk's point	-
	(Medley	-
	Green chimneys	-
	Little Rootie Tootie	-
	San Francisco holiday	-
	Off minor	-
	Gallop's gallop	-
	Crepuscule with Nellie	-
	Hackensack	-
	Consecutive second's	-
	Brilliant corners	-
	Eronel	-
	Monk's dream	-
	Shuffle boil	-
	Hornin' in	-
	Criss cross	-
	Introspection	-
	Ruby, my dear	-
	In walked Bud	-
	(Medley	-
	Let's cool one	-
	Let's call this	-
	Jackie-ing	-
	Humph	-
	Functional	-
	(Medley	-
	Work	-
	I mean you	-
	Monk's mood	-
	(Medley	-
	Four in one	-
	Round about midnight	-
	Played twice	-
	Friday the 13th	-
	Ugly beauty	-
	Bye-ya	-
	Oska T.	-
	(Medley	-
	Bolivar blues	-
	Well you needn't	-
	Brake's sake	-
	Nutty	-
	Who knows	-
	(Medley	-
	Blue hawk	-
	North of the sunset	-
	Blue sphere	-
	Something in blue	-
	Boo boo's birthday	-
	Ask me now	-
	Think of one	-
	Raise four	-
	(Medley (2)	-
	Japanese folk song (2)	-
	Children's song (2)	-
	Blue Monk (1,2)	-
	We see	-
	Bright Mississippi	-
	Reflections	-
	Blues Five Spot [Five Spot Blues]	-
	Light blue	-
	Teo	-
	Rhythm-a-ning	-
	A merrier Christmas (3)	-
	(Medley	-
	Straight no chaser	-
	Epistrophy	-

Note:

Intakt (Swi) CD100 [CD] is a 3 CD set.

[B10172.5]Add   Bondage Fruit

Bondage Fruit VI : Kumiko Takara (vib,perc) Natsuki Kido (g) Yuji Katsui (vln) Hirohiko Otsubo (b) Yoichi Okabe (d,perc)

Freedom Studio & foxyroom, Japan, August, 2004

	Three voices	Maboroshi No Sekai (Jap)MAPO-019 [CD]
	Rath	-
	Locomotive	-
	Dear gazelle	-
	The train	-
	Something green	-
	I/O	-

[M9612.15]Add   Monk's Music Trio

Monk on Mondays : Si Perkoff (p) Sam Bevan (b) Chuck Bernstein (d)

Mill Valley, CA, August 8, 9, 10 & 11, 2005

	Let's call this	CMB Records CB102843 [CD]
	Bye-ya	-
	Brake's sake	-
	Ruby my dear	-
	Evidence	-
	Locomotive	-
	Well you needn't	-
	Something in blue	-
	Hornin' in	-
	Green chimneys	-
	Light blue	-
	Criss cross	-
	Straight no chaser	-

[T4946.40]Add   Stan Tracey

Play Monk : Tracey/Wellins : Bobby Wellins (ts) Stan Tracey (p) Andrew Cleyndert (b) Clark Tracey (d)

Bulls Head, Barnes, London, December 7, 2006

	I mean you	ReSteamed (E)RSJ104 [CD]
	Locomotive	-
	Well you needn't	-
	'Round midnight (solo-p)	-
	Blues bolivar	-
	Monk's mood (ts,p duet)	-
	Let's cool one	-
	Bright Mississippi	-

[T2101.10]Add   Thelonious 4

Thelonious 4 : Iman Spaargaren (cl,ts) Guillermo Celano (g) Andreas Metziler (b) Jurjen Bakker (d)

The Netherlands, 2007

	Boo Boo's birthday	(Unknown Label & #) [CD]
	We see	-
	Let's call this	-
	Light blue	-
	Locomotive	-
	Hackensack	-
	Coming on the Hudson	-

[M2845.20]Add   John-Alex Mason

Town and Country : John-Alex Mason (el-g,lowebow,footdrums,vcl,National style O g-1)

Boulder, CO, 2008

	Shake 'em on down (1)	Naked Jay Bird 6 [CD]
	Steel pony blues	-
	Bury my boots	-
	Terraplane blues	-
	Boll weevil	-
	Chef menteur	-
	Strange things	-
	Milk cow blues	-
	Locomotive (1)	-
	What are you hungry for (1)	-
	Rabbit song (1)	-
	Jitterbug swing (1)	-
	Cypress grove (1)	-
	Shake your money maker (1)	-
	Shake 'em on down	-

[A2053.50]Add   Ken Aldcroft

Hat And Beard Live At Somewhere There: Music Of Thelonious Monk : Ken Aldcroft & Dave Clark : Ken Aldcroft (g) Dave Clark (d)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 11, 2009

	52nd Street theme	Trio Records (Can)TRP-013 [CD]
	Locomotive	-
	Green chimneys	-
	Nutty	-
	I mean you	-
	We see	-
	Bye ya	-
	Little rootie tootie	-

[P2263.5]Add   Peeping Tom

File Under Bebop : Pierre-Antoine Badaroux (as) Joel Grip (b) Antonin Gerbal (d)

Live "Periscope", Lyon, France, May, 2009

	Koko	Umlaut (F)LC-UMCD01 [CD]
	(Medley:)	-
	Locomotive	-
	Light blue	-
	Evidence	-
	Un poco loco	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Constellation	-
	Old time Southside street dance	-
	Mohawk	-
	Bebop	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Shaw 'nuff	-
	Parisian thoroughfare	-
	Four in one	-
	Donna Lee	-

[P2263.10]Add   Peeping Tom

File Under Bebop : Pierre-Antoine Badaroux (as) Joel Grip (b) Antonin Gerbal (d)

Live "Periscope", Lyon, France, May 23, 2009

	Koko	Umlaut (F)LC-UMCD01 [CD]
	(Medley:)	-
	Locomotive	-
	Light blue	-
	Evidence	-
	Un poco loco	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Constellation	-
	Old time Southside Street dance	-
	Mohawk	-
	Bebop	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Shaw 'nuff	-
	Parisian thoroughfare	-
	Four in one	-
	Donna Lee	-

[T236.19.10]Add   Aki Takase

2 For 2 : Aki Takase/Han Bennink : Aki Takase (p) Han Bennink (d)

Berlin, Germany, May 2-4, 2011

	Two for two	Intakt (Swi)CD193 [CD]
	My Tokyo	-
	Locomotive	-
	Zankapfel	-
	Knut	-
	Baumkuchen	-
	Monochrome	-
	Raise four	-
	Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?	-
	A chotto matte	-
	Hat and beard	-
	Ohana han	-
	Rolled up	-
	Hell und dunkel	-
	Hommage to Thelonious Monk	-
	Two for two	-

[V2858.30]Add   Alexander von Schlippenbach

Schlippenbach Plays Monk : Alexander Von Schlippenbach (p)

Berlin, Germany, November 22 & 23, 2011

	Reverence	Intakt (Swi)CD207 [CD]
	Work	-
	Interlude 1	-
	Locomotive	-
	Introspection I	-
	Introspection II	-
	Coming on the Hudson	-
	Interlude 2	-
	Epistrophy	-
	Interlude 3	-
	Reflections	-
	Interlude 4	-
	Interlude 5	-
	Brilliant corners	-
	Interlude 6	-
	Interlude 7	-
	Pannonica	-
	Interlude 8	-
	Played twice	-
	Epilogue	-

[S10632.0.10]Add   Spinning Quintet

Nice If You Can : Spinning Quintet Featuring Mike Melillo : Giacomo Uncini (tp) Antonangelo Giudice (sax) Mike Melillo (p) Gabriele Pesaresi (b) Massimo Manzi (d)

c. 2012

	Nice if you can	Notami Jazz (It)NJ002 [CD]
	House party starting	-
	Nature boy	-
	Close your eyes	-
	Spinning song	-
	Monking business	-
	Autumn nocturne	-
	Locomotive	-
	Moon rays	-

[W4248.20]Add   The Whammies

Play the Music of Steve Lacy : Jeb Bishop (tb) Jorrit Dijkstra (as,lyricon) Pandelis Karayorgis (p) Mary Oliver (vln,viola) Nate McBride (b) Han Bennink (d)

Acton, MA, February 2, 2012

	Bone	Driff CD1201 [CD]
	As usual	-
	The wire	-
	Ducks	-
	Dutch masters	-
	I feel a draft	-
	The whammies	-
	Locomotive	-

[D87.120]Add   Franco D'Andrea

Monk And The Time Machine : Mauro Ottolini (tb) Daniele d'Agaro (cl) Andrea Ayassot (as) Franco d'Andrea (p) Aldo Mella (b) Zeno de Rossi (d)

Rome, Italy, April 22 & 23, 2013

	(Medley:)	Parco della Musica (It)MPR053 [CD]
	Into the mystery	-
	Deep riff	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Light blue	-
	Epistrophy	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Misterioso	-
	Monk's W.T.L.	-
	Bright Mississippi	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Monk's mood	-
	D.T. abstraction	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Monodic	-
	Well you needn't	-
	A new rag suite	-
	I mean you	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Monk's W.T.L.	-
	Locomotive	-
	Un gioco	-
	Blue Monk	-
	Brake's sake	-
	Naif	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Blue Monk	-
	Brake's sake	-
	Naif	-
	Un gioco	-
	Coming on the Hudson	-
	Brake's sake (alt take)	-
	Coming on the Hudson (alt take)	-

Note:

Parco della Musica (It)MPR053 [CD] is a 2 CD set.

[I437.25]Add   The Intercontinental Jazz Trio

Evidence : Tim Armacost (sop,ts) Joris Teepe (b) Shingo Okudaira (d)

c. 2014

	On Green Dolphin Street	Tma (unknown #) [CD]
	Don't know yet	-
	Maconde	-
	Slowly slowly	-
	Flight 643	-
	Locomotive	-
	Tenor vibe	-
	Inventions in Maine	-

[I66.19.10]Add   ICP (Instant Composers Pool)

Restless in Pieces : Thomas Heberer (cnt,tp) Wolter Wierbos (tb) Michael Moore (cl,as) Ab Baars, Tobias Delius (cl,ts) Guus Janssen (p) Mary Oliver (vln,viola) Tristan Honsinger (cello,vcl) Ernst Glerum (b) Han Bennink (d) Mattijs van de Woerd (vcl)

Amsterdam, October 21 & 22, 2015

	Restless in pieces	ICP (Du)054 [CD]
	Rear/murmurs	-
	Blue chopsticks	-
	Kwijt	-
	Lady sings the blues	-
	Samba zombie	-
	C.E.I.	-
	Where the sunflowers grow	-
	Rambling rake	-
	Yon horizon	-
	Rollo I	-
	Locomotive	-
	Rollo II	-
	One thing all at once	-
	Jojo jive	-
	Anatole	-

[S4306.50]Add   Arturo Serra

Locomotive : Enrique Oliver (ts) Arturo Serra (vib) Jose Carra (p) Bori Albero (b) Ramon Prats (d)

Granada, Spain, December 3, 2015

	Dual force	Swing Alley (Sp)SA033 [CD]
	El Gaucho	-
	I waited for you	-
	L's bop	-
	Locomotive	-
	Wild flower	-
	Little Melonae	-
	Rounder's mood	-
	So far, so near	-
	Giant steps	-

[O520.26]Add   Miles Okazaki

Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk : Miles Okazaki (g)

Brooklyn, NY, September 2017-May 2018

	Locomotive	Bandcamp/Miles Okazaki (no #) [DL]
	Brilliant corners	-
	Gallop's gallop	-
	Light blue	-
	Evidence	-
	Crepuscule with Nellie	-
	San Francisco holiday	-
	Monk's point	-
	Shuffle boil	-
	Jackie-ing	-
	Criss cross	-
	Introspection	-
	Functional	-
	We see	-
	Sixteen	-
	Misterioso	-
	Humph	-
	Teo	-
	Hornin' in	-
	Raise four	-
	Skippy	-
	Pannonica	-
	Think of one	-
	Well you needn't	-
	Bolivar blues	-
	Monk's dream	-
	Little Rootie Tootie	-
	Eronel	-
	Thelonious	-
	Ruby, my dear	-
	Four in one	-
	Bluehawk	-
	Stuffy turkey	-
	A merrier Christmas	-
	Played twice	-
	Bemsha swing	-
	Blues Five Spot	-
	Bye-ya	-
	Who knows	-
	Green chimneys	-
	Blue Sphere	-
	Ugly beauty	-
	Oska T	-
	Hackensack	-
	Ask me now	-
	I mean you	-
	52nd Street theme	-
	Something in blue	-
	Nutty	-
	Off minor	-
	Two timer	-
	In walked Bud	-
	Monk's mood	-
	Let's call this	-
	Let's cool one	-
	Children's song	-
	Boo Boo's birthday	-
	Rhythm-a-ning	-
	North of the sunset	-
	Epistrophy	-
	Bright Mississippi	-
	Coming on the Hudson	-
	Trinkle tinkle	-
	Reflections	-
	Brake's sake	-
	Straight no chaser	-
	Friday the 13th	-
	'Round midnight	-
	Work	-
	Blue Monk	-

[K2098.150]Add   Frank Kimbrough

Scott Robinson (ts-1,bassax-2,b-cl-3,tp-4) Frank Kimbrough (p) Rufus Reid (b) Billy Drummond (d)

Maggie's Farm, Pipersville, PA, May 28, 2018

	North of the sunset (1)	Sunnyside SSC4032 [CD]
	Nutty (1)	-
	Trinkle tinkle (1)	-
	Blues Five Spot (1)	-
	'Round midnight (1)	-
	Jackie-ing (1)	-
	Well you needn't (2)	-
	Sixteen (1)	-
	Locomotive (3)	-
	Gallop's gallop (1)	-
	Children's song (1,4)	-
	Friday the 13th (1)	-
	Let's call this (1)	-

[D4189.226]Add   Jed Distler

Fearless Monk : 29 Songs by Thelonious Monk : Jed Distler (p)

c. 2019

	Thelonious	TNC Jazz CD-1741 [CD]
	Bemsha swing	-
	Off minor	-
	Misterioso	-
	Let's cool one	-
	Bye-ya	-
	Light blue	-
	Ruby, my dear	-
	Jackie-ing	-
	Brilliant corners	-
	San Francisco holiday	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Stuffy turkey	-
	Teo	-
	Coming on the Hudson	-
	Locomotive	-
	Played twice	-
	Reflections	-
	I mean you	-
	Nutty	-
	Evidence	-
	Introspection	-
	Brake's sake	-
	Monk's dream	-
	'Round midnight	-
	Epistrophy	-
	Criss-cross	-
	Monk's mood	-
	Straight no chaser	-
	Think of one	-
	Blue Monk	-
	Ugly beauty	-

[O198.50]Add   Dave O'Higgins

O'Higgins & Luft Play Monk & Trane : Dave O'Higgins & Rob Luft : Dave O'Higgins (ts) Scott Flanigan (org) Rob Luft (g) Rod Youngs (d)

London, England, January 14 & 15, 2019

	Little Melonae	Ubuntu Music (E)UBU0029 [CD]
	Locomotive	-
	Minor mishap	-
	I'll wait and pray	-
	Trinkle tinkle	-
	Like Sonny	-
	'Round midnight	-
	Dreamland	-
	Locomotive	-

[B4593.37]Add   John Beasley

Monk'estra Plays John Beasley : coll. pers. : Bijon Watson, Kye Palmer, James Ford, Rashawn Ross, Brian Swartz (tp) Wendell Kelly (tb) Ryan Dragon (tb,b-cl) Steve Hughes, Ido Meshulam, Francisco Torres (tb) Steve Hughes (b-tb) Hubert Laws (fl) Ralph Moore (ts) Danny Janklow, Chris Lewis, Tom Luer, Tom Peterson, Adam Schroeder, Alex Budman (saxes) Bob Sheppard (sax,fl,alto-fl,b-cl) Gregoire Maret (hca) Joey DeFrancesco (org) John Beasley (p,el-p,synt,arr,cond) Steve Tavaglione (synt) John Patitucci, Benjamin Shepherd (b) Vinnie Colaiuta, Terreon Gully, Ulysses Owens, Jr. (d) Joey De Leon, Jr. (cga) Jubilant Sykes (vcl)

California, June & July 2019

	Steve-O	Mack Avenue MAC1172 [CD]
	Sam Rivers	-
	Monk's mood	-
	Donna Lee	-
	Song for Dub	-
	Five Spot	-
	Implication	-
	Intermission	-
	Masekela	-
	(Medley:)	-
	Rhythm-a-ning	-
	Evidence	-
	Off minor	-
	Be.you.tiful	-
	Locomotive	-
	Come Sunday	-

[C5068.15]Add   Francesco Ciniglio

The Locomotive Suite : Raynald Colom (tp,flhrn) Matteo Pastorino (b-cl) Matt Chalk (as,arr) Alexis Valet (vib) Felix Moseholm (b) Francesco Ciniglio (d,comp)

Paris, France, July 5 & 6, 2020

	Laura Martina	Whirlwind (E)WR4773 [CD]
	Loco-motive	-
	Arlene's march	-
	Capitano	-
	Self-made man	-
	The turtle	-
	Concern in the background	-
	945 St. Nicholas Ave.	-
	Mon ange	-

[O34.90]Add   Bill O'Connell

A Change Is Gonna Come : Craig Handy (ts-1,sop-2) Bill O'Connell (p,el-p-3) Lincoln Goines (b-4,el-b-5) Steve Jordan (d) Pedrito Martinez (perc-6)

Paramus, NJ, May 13 & 14, 2021

	Moment's notice (4)	Savant SCD2197 [CD]
	Loco-motive (4,6)	-
	Covid blues (2,4)	-
	A change is gonna come (1,4)	-
	Sun for Sonny (2,5,6)	-
	Enough is enough (1,4)	-
	Sweet peanut (3,5,6)	-
	A prayer for us (4)	-
	Chaos (2,5,6)	-
	My foolish heart (3,5)

[Gheorghe]

Monk always has been a big inspiration for me as a musician. Somehow I adopted some of his musical language if I treat a song that maybe not even is a "jazz standard" and it would turn into some of the chord voicings that I got as inspiration for Monk.
Once my wife asked me to play some "classic piece" and the only one I "know" is a little Chopin Waltz. It has some nice chords and I leave some notes out and anyway my phrasing is as far removed from classical piano as it could be, at least that´s what I assume. 
Well so maybe it looks and sounds somehow "funny" for people with classical trained ears....

[mikeweil]

Since The Tom Lord discography does not include composers in the database, some of the tracks may be or certainly are not Monk's piece.

[Mark Stryker]

3 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

Since The Tom Lord discography does not include composers in the database, some of the tracks may be or certainly are not Monk's piece.

Yes, as I noted in my post ...

[mikeweil]

5 minutes ago, Mark Stryker said:

Yes, as I noted in my post ...

Of course. This is a great disadvantage of Lord's database.

[AllenLowe]

that whole piece in the Baffler is riddled with errors; I sent them a message offering to make corrections but they did not respond.

15 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Monk was amazing. And strange. His earliest recordings show him as a sort of Teddy Wilson/Art Tatum player, or at least far more so than later. Then it seems to me that he had a sort of Ellingtonian phase and that he edited his playing down to essentials and beyond . . . until finally he was edited down to silence!

He was able to create captivating ear worms that become major melody components. You can listen to him all your life without fatigue.

I've always felt that the whole "he could play like Teddy Wilson" etc thing was a myth. I have really heard nothing that shows this. From the beginning he plays like Monk.

[Peter Friedman]

What I found somewhat surprising on the list Mark shared is that a large percentage of the recordings of the Monk tune"Locomotive" were by groups from countries other than the USA.

Many American musicians who do and have been playing Monk's music for a long time seem to have not recorded "Locomotive".

[Milestones]

"Locomotive" (Monk's) certainly seems more favored by European musicians.  I wonder why that's the case.

 

Edited January 5, 2023 by Milestones

[jazzbo]

30 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:

 

I've always felt that the whole "he could play like Teddy Wilson" etc thing was a myth. I have really heard nothing that shows this. From the beginning he plays like Monk.

If you say so. I hear differently in his earliest recordings from Minton's.

Edited January 5, 2023 by jazzbo

[Mark Stryker]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

If you say so. I hear differently in his earliest recordings from Minton's.

I'm with Allen. While nobody comes from nothing, whatever Teddy Wilson is in Monk -- and there is some -- is well-sublimated to Monk's own voice by the 1941 Minton's recordings. I mean, here they are playing the same tune about four years apart. 

 

Edited January 5, 2023 by Mark Stryker

[jazzbo]

Okay. I remember slightly differently. I don't listen to music on youtube. I'll dig out the discs and compare again one of these days. 

Edited January 5, 2023 by jazzbo

[Teasing the Korean]

Monk's music to me suggests a bright, shiny, mechanized future. 

[Larry Kart]

Among, per Allen's post, the many errors in that Monk piece in the Baffler,  the person in the anecdote therein about Monk and Alfred Lion meeting for the first time is not editor Robert Gottlieb but photographer-writer William Gottlieb. At the time that meeting is supposed to have taken place, Robert Gottlieb would have been in kneepants.

[JSngry]

re: Teddy Wilson...the first that I know seeing that brought into the discussion was a Metronome(?) "pro vs con" in the 1950s right after the big Riverside breakthrough. article that was part of a series where two critics would "take sides" about a given artist. In Monk's case, it was Stanley Dance taking the "con" on Monk. He jibed at the notion that Monk could be playing "regularly" if he wanted to by commenting that the evidence put forth was the Minton's recordings, on which Dance said that Monk was playing "sub-par Teddy Wilson style piano".

I'm going from 40+ year memories of college music library immersion in old jazz periodicals, so I'm not sure if it was Metronome, but am absolutely certain that it was Dance, and that my quote is about 90% accurate, even with the passage of a lot of years. I also recall that Dance disingenuously used some semi-quote from Coleman Hawkins about the Monk's Music session to discredit Monk, which I think was almost certainly placed out of context.

If anybody was explicitly linking Monk to Teddy Wilson before that, I'm not aware of it. It certainly could have happened, though. But I'm interested in seeing just how far back that goes as far as the general public discourse. I mean, I hear it, but it's at best secondary, imo.

[jlhoots]

23 hours ago, Milestones said:

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by D. G. Kelley. It was published in 2009.

 

Agree.

[Guy Berger]

On 1/4/2023 at 4:25 PM, John L said:

There is no question about Monk's greatness as a composer.  But I consider the unique way that Monk played music to be at least as great a legacy. 

100%

[mikeweil]

On 1/5/2023 at 1:25 AM, John L said:

There is no question about Monk's greatness as a composer.  But I consider the unique way that Monk played music to be at least as great a legacy. 

👍