Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington

Label & catalog

• Riverside RecordsRLP 12-201

Tracklist

1. A1It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
2. A2Sophisticated Lady
3. A3I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
4. A4Black And Tan Fantasy
5. B1Mood Indigo
6. B2I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
7. B3Solitude
8. B4Caravan

• It Don't Mean A Thing by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'4:43
• Sophisticated Lady by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'4:29
• I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'5:58
• Black And Tan Fantasy by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'3:24
• Mood Indigo by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'3:17
• I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'5:42
• Caravan by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'5:57
• It Don't Mean A Thing by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'4:43
• Sophisticated Lady by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'4:29
• I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'5:58
• Black And Tan Fantasy by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'3:24
• Mood Indigo by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'3:17
• I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'5:42
• Caravan by Thelonious Monk from 'Plays The Music Of Duke Elllington'5:57
• Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington -1955 -FULL ALBUM
• Thelonious Monk - Sophisticated Lady4:39
• Black And Tan Fantasy3:29

Notes

1st pressing with earliest version of original cover design (red, white & blue with black background on front, four 10” and two 12” LPs advertised on the bottom right panel and “Bill Grauer Productions” appearing in the bottom left panel instead of centered at the bottom of the middle panel), and deep groove white labels with grey tint box surrounding “Riverside” (later issue is pastel blue tint) and black font. Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey; July 21 and 27, 1955