Mulligan Meets Monk
Studio album by
Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk
Released1957
RecordedAugust 12–13, 1957
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
GenreJazz, bebop
Length40:52 (Original LP) 59:31 (reissue)
LabelRiverside
RLP 12-247
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Gerry Mulligan chronology
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(1957) 		Mulligan Meets Monk
(1957) 		Blues in Time
(1957)
Thelonious Monk chronology
Monk's Music
(1957) 		Mulligan Meets Monk
(1957) 		Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
(1958)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]

Mulligan Meets Monk is a studio album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, originally released on Riverside Records in 1957.[5][6] 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.[7]

Track listing

Original LP (1957)

Side One

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

Side Two

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

Digital re-release (1987)

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

Personnel

Musicians

Production

For the CD-release (1987)

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th edn). Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  5. ^ Cf. Jazzdisco.org
  6. ^ Mulligan Meets Monk at Discogs
  7. ^ 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.
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