Boxset / Compilation · 1956
Tracklist
A1 We See
A2 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
A3 Locomotive
A4 Hackensack
B1 Let's Call This
B2 Think Of One (Take 2)
B3 Think Of One (Take 1)
Total Time 38:04
Line-up/Musicians
Bass – Curly Russell (tracks: A1 to A4), Percy Heath (tracks: B1 to B3)
Drums – Art Blakey (tracks: A1 to A4), Willie Jones (tracks: B1 to B3)
French Horn – Julius Watkins (tracks: B1 to B3)
Piano – Thelonious Monk
Tenor Saxophone – Frank Foster (tracks: A1 to A4), Sonny Rollins (tracks: B1 to B3)
Trumpet – Ray Copeland (tracks: A1 to A4)
About this release
Prestige – LP 7053(US)
Contains two 1954 Monk LPs: "Blows For LP "(PrLP 166) and "Thelonious Monk Quintet"(PRLP 180)
A1 to A4: recorded May 11, 1954 at the house of Rudy Van Gelder's parents in Hackensack, New Jersey.
B1 to B3: recorded November 13, 1953 at WOR Studios, New York City.
Reissued in 1962 as "We See"(Prestige – PR 7245,US),in 1965 as "The Golden Monk"(Prestige – PRST 7363,US),in France as "Thelonious Monk Quintet"(Barclay – 84 082).Reissued on CD as "Monk"(Original Jazz Classics – OJCCD-016-2)
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