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Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins is a compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Sonny Rollins released in 1956 by Prestige Records.[5] The tracks on it were recorded in three sessions between 1953 and 1954. While this is its original title, and its most consistent title in its digital re-releases, it was also released on Prestige as Work! (1959, PRLP 7169)[6] and The Genius Of Thelonious Monk (1967, PR 7656),[7] with alternative covers.[8]

Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins
Studio album by Thelonious Monk
Released	1956
Recorded	November 13, 1953 September 22, 1954 October 25, 1954 WOR Studios, NYC and Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Label	Prestige
Producer	Bob Weinstock Ira Gitler
Thelonious Monk chronology
Monk (1956) Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (1956) Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington (1956)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
MSN Music (Expert Witness)	A[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

Background

The album is culled from the results of three recording sessions over a span of close to twelve months featuring different personnel. Although Rollins is credited as a co-leader on the album cover, he appears on only three of the album's five tracks. It was the final Monk release on Prestige before he moved to a contract with Riverside Records.

The track "Friday the 13th" was recorded in November 1953 with a quintet of Monk, Rollins, Julius Watkins, Percy Heath, and Willie Jones; the September 1954 recordings are of a trio with Monk, Heath, and Art Blakey; and the October 1954 session Monk and Rollins again with bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Art Taylor.[9] Of the three Monk originals, "Friday the 13th" was written in the studio during the recording session, released as a ten-minute jam to fill out the album's running time.[10] Monk would return to "Nutty" again and again through his career, but this was his only recording of the composition "Work."[11]

The recordings on this 12" LP originally appeared in 1954 on three 10" LPs: Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP (Prestige PRLP 166), Thelonious Monk Plays (Prestige PRLP 189)[12] and Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk (Prestige PRLP 190).[13][14]

Chris Sheridan, in his book Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, dates the first 12-inch vinyl release of Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige PRLP 7075) to 1956. Its release was immediately preceded in the Prestige 12-inch catalog of Monk's work by Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige PRLP 7027), and Thelonious Monk, aka Monk (PRLP 7053).[15]

Track listing

All compositions by Thelonious Monk, except where indicated.

Side one

1. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 5:13
2. "I Want to Be Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 7:43
3. "Work" – 5:18

Side two

1. "Nutty" – 5:16
2. "Friday the 13th" – 10:32

Personnel

• Thelonious Monk – piano
• Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone on "The Way You Look Tonight", "I Want to Be Happy" and "Friday the 13th"
• Julius Watkins – french horn on "Friday the 13th"
• Percy Heath – bass on "Work," "Nutty" and "Friday the 13th"
• Tommy Potter – bass on "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I Want to Be Happy"
• Art Taylor – drums on "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I Want to Be Happy"
• Art Blakey – drums on "Work" and "Nutty"
• Willie Jones – drums on "Friday the 13th"

References

На других языках

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[de] Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins

Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins ist ein Kompilationsalbum von Thelonious Monk und Sonny Rollins mit Aufnahmen, die bei drei Sessions zwischen dem 13. November 1953 und dem 25. Oktober 1954 entstanden waren und zunächst auf anderen Langspielplatten veröffentlicht wurden. Das Album, das auch zwei Titel enthält, auf denen Rollins nicht zu hören ist, erschien 1956 als 12-Zoll-Album bei Prestige Records und 1987 als Compact Disc bei Original Jazz Classics.

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