#THELONIOUS MONK DISCOGRAPHY SERIES#
There are also two issues from 1962 on the 9000 series of vocal releases, 9001 "My Hour of Need" by Dodo Greene and 9002 "Portrait of Sheila" by Sheila Jordan. Some of these, however, are in fact just the monos check the inner margin, and see if there is the mono catalogue number engraved (i.e. (In referring to records in this series, I will use the 4000 number, although all of these I own, save one, are stereo.) There are "electronically rechanneled stereo" releases, dating from the 60's and 70's of mono-only recordings. the stereo release of the aforementioned "Newk's Time" is 84001). (For example, the stereo release of Johnny Griffin's "The Congregation" first appeared in 1994 as part of the Connoisseur series.) 1500 series stereo releases have the same catalogue numbers as their mono counterparts in the 4000 series, stereo releases have an 8 prefixed (e.g. There are stereo releases of all subsequent records, except for Sonny Rollins' "A Night at the Village Vanguard" (1582), although some of these only became available in the context of later reissue series. * The first number with a stereo release was 1562 - "The Stylings of Silver" by Horace Silver, although it was not released until two years after the initial 1957 mono release. * The "4000" series starts with 4001 ("Newk's Time" by Sonny Rollins, released in mono in 1958, stereo, 1959, the year of the first Blue Note stereo releases), and peters out about 400 releases later, (although as noted things get very spotty after around 4250). The early releases in this series are reissues of earliier 10" releases primarily from the early 50's, including records by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Bud Powell and others. * The "1500" series commenced in 1955, with catalogue numbers starting at 1501, and running through 1600, released in 1958. * The "1200" series consists of 8 records by either Sidney Bechet or George Lewis, reissuing earlier 78 and 10 inch releases. Some tidbits about BN (stolen from microgroove - ): * link to originals and cross check titles A stab at the horrible Blue Note mess: The What The Fuck Serie:īN 1558: maybe this is a typo for BLP 1558, Sonny Rollins, Volume 2īlue Note 28263: "Straight, No Chaser" ?wtf?Ħ6119/66120 Blue Note Japan 2006 ? Complete Genius? * punch in and mark discIDs for the boxes I have. * Big Band and Quartet (original release) Going through the Columbia vaults: preliminary documentation work up to (included) It's Monk's Time. Tyding notes:Īll albums "quickly" verified as "album" and marked with the label name.Īdditionally, all "complete X" compilation are all good. The Master Planīe the #1 resource on Thelonious Monk recordings, and actually outperform best-of-breed disco informations provided by the labels in their complete boxset releases. Also needed: ground work on the late live period (bootleg knowledge could help), and the early recordings (inc. If anybody wants to help tidying this, pick your poison (either the Riverside, Prestige or Blue Note catalogs) and jump in.