Mulligan Meets Monk

Studio album by Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan

Released

1957

Recorded

August 12–13, 1957
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Genre

Jazz, bebop

Length

59:31 (reissue)

Label

Riverside
RLP 12-247

Producer

Orrin Keepnews

Thelonious Monk chronology

Monk's Music
(1957)

Mulligan Meets Monk
(1957)

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
(1957/rel. 2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]

Mulligan Meets Monk is a jazz album by pianist Thelonious Monk and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, originally released on Riverside Records in 1957.^[4]^[5] It has been reissued numerous times. It was remastered for CD in 1987 (on Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics) with three additional alternative takes from the original session.^[6]

Track listing

Original LP (1957)

A-side

"'Round Midnight" (Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 8:29
"Rhythm-a-Ning" (Monk) – 5:19
"Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 7:17

B-side

"Decidedly" (Gerry Mulligan) – 5:54
"Straight, No Chaser" (Monk) – 7:00
"I Mean You" (Monk, Coleman Hawkins) – 6:53

Digital re-release (1987)

"'Round Midnight" – 8:29
"Rhythm-a-Ning" – 5:19
"Sweet and Lovely" – 7:17
"Decidedly" (original stereo take 4) – 5:54
"Decidedly" (original mono take 5) – 6:37
"Straight, No Chaser" (original take 3) – 7:00
"Straight, No Chaser" (alternate take 1) – 5:29
"I Mean You" (original take 4) – 6:53
"I Mean You" (alternate take 2) – 6:30

Personnel

Technical personnel

Orrin Keepnews - producer, liner notes
Jack Higgins - recording engineer
Robert Parent - cover photo
Paul Bacon - cover design

For the CD-release (1987)

Phil De Lancie - digital remastering
Peter Grant - design

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th edn). Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213
↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
↑ Cf. Jazzdisco.org
↑ Mulligan Meets Monk at Discogs
↑ All tracks were also part of the box set Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings at Discogs (list of releases) issued a year before in 1986.

Thelonious Monk

Discography

Selected solo albums	Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 Wizard of the Vibes Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 Thelonious Monk Trio Monk Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington The Unique Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Thelonious Himself Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Monk's Music Mulligan Meets Monk Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk Thelonious in Action Misterioso The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall 5 by Monk by 5 Thelonious Alone in San Francisco Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk Monk in France Thelonious Monk in Italy Monk's Dream Criss-Cross Monk in Tokyo Miles & Monk at Newport Big Band and Quartet in Concert It's Monk's Time Monk Solo Monk Live at the It Club Live at the Jazz Workshop Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 Underground Monk's Blues

As sideman	Midnight at Minton's Bird and Diz Bags' Groove Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Moving Out Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Nica's Tempo In Orbit

Compositions	"Ask Me Now" "Bemsha Swing" "Blue Monk" "Epistrophy" "In Walked Bud" "Rhythm-a-Ning" "'Round Midnight" "Ruby, My Dear" "Straight, No Chaser" "Well, You Needn't"

Related articles	Blue Note Sessions Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

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