Grade List: Thelonious Monk

  1. Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (1947 [1989], Blue Note) B+
  2. Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (1951-1952 [1989], Blue Note) A-
  3. Thelonious Monk: The Best of Thelonious Monk: The Blue Note Years (1947, Blue Note) A-
  4. Thelonious Monk: The Very Best (1947-1952 [2005], Blue Note) A
  5. Thelonious Monk: Celebrating 75 Years of His First Recordings Revisited (1947-1952 [2022], Ezz-Thetics) B+(***)
  6. Thelonious Monk: Solo 1954 (1954, Vogue)
  7. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Trio / Blue Monk: Volume 2 (1952, Prestige)
  8. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk (1952, Prestige OJC)
  9. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Trio (1952-1954 [2007], Prestige) A
  10. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins (1953-1954 [1987], Prestige OJC) A
  11. Thelonious Monk: Monk (1953, Prestige OJC)
  12. Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige Recordings (1944, Prestige)
  13. Thelonious Monk: Plays Duke Ellington (1955, Riverside OJC) B
  14. Thelonious Monk: The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956 [1987], Riverside OJC) B+
  15. Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (1956 [2008], Riverside) A
  16. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Himself (1957 [2008], Riverside/Keepnews Collection) B
  17. Thelonious Monk: Monk's Music (1957 [1993], Riverside OJC) A
  18. Thelonious Monk [John Coltrane]: At Carnegie Hall (1957 [2005], Blue Note) A
  19. Thelonious Monk: With John Coltrane: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (1957 [2006], Riverside) A-
  20. Thelonious Monk: Live at the Five Spot: Discovery! (1958, Blue Note)
  21. Thelonious Monk: Misterioso (1958 [1989], Riverside OJC) A-
  22. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious in Action (1958 [1988], Riverside OJC) A-
  23. Thelonious Monk [John Coltrane]: Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1957-1958 [1987], Jazzland OJC) A-
  24. Thelonious Monk: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (1947, Blue Note) A-
  25. Thelonious Monk: The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959 [1989], Riverside OJC) A+
  26. Thelonious Monk: 5 by Monk by 5 (1959, Riverside OJC) B
  27. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959 [2011], Riverside/OJC) B+(**)
  28. Thelonious Monk: Riverside Profiles (1955-1959 [2006], Riverside) A-
  29. Thelonious Monk: San Francisco Holiday (1960 [1992], Milestone)
  30. Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (1960 [2017], Sam) B+(***)
  31. Thelonious Monk: The Best of Thelonious Monk (1955-1960 [2004], Riverside) A-
  32. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk and the Jazz Giants (1955-1961 [1992], Riverside)
  33. Thelonious Monk: The Complete Riverside Recordings (1955, Riverside)
  34. Thelonious Monk: Monk in Bern (1961, Magnetic)
  35. Thelonious Monk: Live in Stockholm (1961, Dragon)
  36. Thelonious Monk: Live in Stockholm (1961, DIW)
  37. Thelonious Monk: The Thelonious Monk Memorial Album (1955-1962 [1992], Milestone)
  38. Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream (1962 [1963], Columbia) A-
  39. Thelonious Monk: Criss-Cross (1962-1963 [2003], Columbia/Legacy) A-
  40. Thelonious Monk: Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963, Columbia) A-
  41. Thelonious Monk: Monk in Tokyo (1963, Columbia)
  42. Thelonious Monk: Monterey Jazz Festival '63 (1963, Storyville)
  43. Thelonious Monk: Mønk (1963 [2018], Gearbox) A-
  44. Thelonious Monk: It's Monk's Time (1964 [2003], Columbia/Legacy) A
  45. Thelonious Monk: Live at the It Club: Complete (1964 [1998], Columbia/Legacy) A-
  46. Thelonious Monk: Live at the Jazz Workshop: Complete (1964, Columbia/Legacy)
  47. Thelonious Monk: Solo Monk (1964 [2003], Columbia/Legacy) B+
  48. Thelonious Monk: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival (1964 [2007], Monterey Jazz Festival) A-
  49. Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (1964, Bandstand)
  50. Thelonious Monk: At Newport 1963 and 1965 (1963-1965 [2002], Columbia/Legacy) B+
  51. Thelonious Monk: Monk (1964-1965 [2002], Columbia/Legacy) A-
  52. Thelonious Monk: Olympia, 23 May 1965 (1965, Disc Trema)
  53. Thelonious Monk: Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia (1965 [2003], Thelonious/Hyena) A-
  54. Thelonious Monk: Olympia, 7 Mars 1965 (1965, Trema)
  55. Thelonious Monk: Monk 'Round the World (1961-1965 [2004], Thelonious/Hyena) B+
  56. Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1966 [1971], Columbia)
  57. Thelonious Monk: Live in Switzerland, 1966 (1966, Jazz Helvet)
  58. Thelonious Monk: Standards (1964-1967 [1989], Columbia) B
  59. Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto (1968 [2020], Impulse!) A-
  60. Thelonious Monk: Underground (1967-1968 [2003], Columbia/Legacy) B
  61. Thelonious Monk: The Composer (1962-1968 [1988], Columbia) B+
  62. Thelonious Monk: The Essential Thelonious Monk (1962-1968 [2003], Columbia/Legacy) A-
  63. Thelonious Monk: Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings 1962-1968 (1962, Columbia/Legacy)
  64. Thelonious Monk: The Columbia Years '62-'68 (1962, Columbia/Legacy) A-
  65. Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969 (1969 [2013], Blue Note) B+(**)
  66. Thelonious Monk: The London Collection: Volume 1 (1971, Black Lion)
  67. Thelonious Monk: The London Collection: Volume 2 (1971, Black Lion)
  68. Thelonious Monk: The London Collection: Volume 3 (1971, Black Lion)
  69. Thelonious Monk: The Complete London Collection (1971 [1988], Black Lion) B+
  70. Thelonious Monk: Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Thelonious Monk (1947-1971 [2000], Columbia/Legacy) A-

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