Thelonious Monk/Discography


 * Midnight at Minton's (c.1941, issued 1973 under Don Byas' name. Monk does not play on all tracks of this or the other two CDs of 1941 material)
 * After Hours (c.1941, issued 1973 under Charlie Christian's name)
 * After Hours in Harlem (c.1941, issued 1973 under Hot Lips Page's name
 * Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (1947–1948 recordings)
 * Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (1947–1952 recordings)
 * Thelonious Monk Trio (1952)
 * Monk (1953, reissue of 1956)
 * Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (1953 recordings, 1957 reissue)
 * Thelonious Monk plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)
 * The Unique Thelonious Monk (1955)
 * Brilliant Corners (1956 recording with Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry)
 * Thelonious Himself (1957)
 * Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1957 recordings, 1961 issue) - Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.
 * Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1957)
 * Monk's Music (1957)
 * Mulligan Meets Monk (1957, with Gerry Mulligan)
 * Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (1957, released, 2005)
 * Thelonious in Action and Misterioso (1958, live at the Five Spot with Johnny Griffin)
 * The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959, Charlie Rouse joined the band then)
 * 5 by Monk by 5 (1959)
 * Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959)
 * Thelonious Monk And The Jazz Giants (1959)
 * Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (1960, with Charlie Rouse)
 * Monk in France (1961)
 * Monk's Dream (1962)
 * Criss Cross (1962)
 * Monk in Tokyo (1963)
 * Miles & Monk at Newport (1963, with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance)
 * Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963)
 * It's Monk's Time (1964)
 * Monk (album) (1964)
 * Solo Monk (1964)
 * Live at the It Club (1964)
 * Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
 * Straight, No Chaser (1966)
 * Underground (1967)
 * Monk's Blues (1968)
 * Something in Blue, Nice Work in London, Blue Sphere and The Man I Love (all 1971 recordings, collected in The London Collection 1988, three CDs)
 * April in Paris (1981 2-LP set of the 18 April 1961 Paris recordings)
 * Monk's Classic Recordings (1983)
 * Blues Five Spot (1984, unissued recordings from 1958-61, with various saxophonists and Thad Jones, cornet)
 * The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2006 collection of the 1957 studio recordings with Coltrane) - Won a Grammy Award in 1987 for Best Historical Album