Thelonious Monk Library Guide

Here's a guide I made for resources on Thelonious Monk at Youngstown State University's Maag Library:

THELONIOUS MONK REFERENCE GUIDE

This guide lists books, recordings, videos, and websites by and about Thelonious Monk. The recordings listed here are mainly those with Thelonious Monk as the main performer; this is not a complete discography. Other recordings featuring his compositions or performances can be found through an author or keyword search. Those books for which a call number is not given may be obtained through OhioLINK.

BOOKS

The Thelonious Monk Reader / Rob Van der Bliek, editor
ML417.M846 T54 2001

Monk / Laurent De Wilde

Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music / Thomas Fitterling

Visions of Jazz: The First Century / Gary Giddins
ML385 .G53 1998

Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk / Leslie Gourses

Bebop: The Music and Its Players / Thomas Owens
ML3506 .O95 1995

Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955-1965 / David H. Rosenthal
ML3508 .R68 1992

Brilliant Corners: A Bio-Discography of Thelonious Monk / Chris Sheridan, compiler

Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making / Gabriel Solis

RECORDINGS

5 by Monk by 5 / Thelonious Monk (Riverside)
CD 1558

Bebop / Various Artists (New World Records)
BMC jazz-311

Brilliant Corners / Thelonious Monk (Riverside)
CD 2445

The Complete Blue Note Recordings / Thelonious Monk (Blue Note)
CD 1432 (in four volumes)

The Complete Riverside Recordings / Thelonious Monk (Riverside)
CD 1055(o) (in four volumes plus guide)

Epistrophy / Thelonious Monk (Affinity)
BMC Jazz 530

It's Monk's Time / Thelonious Monk (Columbia)
BMC Jazz 527

The Man I Love / Thelonious Monk (Black Lion)
BMC Jazz 532

Miles and Monk at Newport / Miles Davis Sextet, Thelonious Monk Quartet (Columbia)
BMC jazz-583

Monk / Thelonious Monk Quintet (Prestige)
BMC jazz-262

Monk Misterioso / Thelonious Monk (Columbia)
BMC jazz-353

Monk's Blues / Thelonious Sphere Monk (Columbia)
BMC Jazz 529

Monk's Dream / Thelonious Monk Quartet (Columbia)
CD 2440

Something in Blue / Thelonious Monk (Black Lion)
BMC Jazz 531

Thelonious Himself / Thelonious Monk (Riverside)
CD 2421

Thelonious in Action / Thelonious Monk Quartet (Riverside)
CD 1582

Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins / Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins (Prestige)
BMC jazz-356

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane / Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane (Riverside/Fantasy)
BMC jazz-354

Underground / Thelonious Monk (Columbia)
BMC Jazz 528

VIDEOS

Jazz Icons, Vol. 5 [DVD]
DVD 0007

Jazz Shots from the East Coast, Vol. 1 [DVD]
DVD 0120

Thelonious Monk: Playful Keys [streaming video]
Linked through Maag Library

Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser [VHS or DVD]
Available through OhioLINK

WEBSITES

The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
http://www.monkinstitute.org/

Biographies: Thelonious Monk
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_monk_thelonious.htm

Thelonious Monk
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=9507

Thelonious Monk Discography Project
http://www.jazzdisco.org/thelonious-monk/catalog/

Thelonious Monk: 'Thelonious Himself'
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15130418

The Loneliest Monk
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873856-1,00.html