Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself (Remastered 2025) (1957/2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

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."

TRACKLIST

1. Thelonious Monk - April In Paris (Remastered 2025)
2. Thelonious Monk - (I Don’t Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance (Remastered 2025)
3. Thelonious Monk - Functional (Remastered 2025)
4. Thelonious Monk - I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (Remastered 2025)
5. Thelonious Monk - I Should Care (Remastered 2025)
6. Thelonious Monk - Round Midnight (Remastered 2025)
7. Thelonious Monk - All Alone (Remastered 2025)
8. Thelonious Monk - Monk’s Mood (Remastered 2025)



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