Thelonious Alone in San Francisco

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AllMusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]
DownBeat	^[5]

Thelonious Alone in San Francisco is jazz pianist Thelonious Monk's third solo album, recorded in 1959.^[6]^[7] (Piano Solo, aka Solo 1954, recorded in Paris,^[8] and Thelonious Himself (1957), were Monk's previous forays into this form.)

It was recorded in Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, California, on October 21 and 22, 1959, but without an audience present.

"Bluehawk" and "Round Lights" were improvised blues which appeared only in these recorded versions. The other Monk compositions had appeared in prior recordings.

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Track listing

All songs by Thelonious Monk, unless otherwise indicated.

Side One

"Blue Monk" - 3:44
"Ruby, My Dear" - 3:56
"Round Lights" - 3:34
"Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 5:37
"You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 4:01

Side Two

"Bluehawk" - 3:37
"Pannonica" - 3:51
"Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:41
"There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie" (Jack Meskill, Harry Richman, Pete Wendling) - 4:18
"Reflections"- 5:06

Personnel

Thelonious Monk – piano

Technical

Reice Hamel - recording engineer

References

^ Planer, Lindsay. Thelonious Alone in San Francisco at AllMusic
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1025. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Gleason, Ralph J. (31 March 1960). "Review of Thelonius Alone in San Francisco" (PDF). DownBeat. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
^ "Thelonious Monk: Making The Piano Hum". NPR.org.
^ Yanow, Scott (May 11, 2000). Bebop. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306083 – via Google Books.
^ Thelonious Alone in San Francisco at AllMusic

v t e Thelonious Monk
Discography Compositions
As leader	Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 Wizard of the Vibes Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 Thelonious Monk Trio Monk Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins Piano Solo Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington The Unique Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Thelonious Himself Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk Monk's Music Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Mulligan Meets Monk Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Thelonious in Action Misterioso The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall 5 by Monk by 5 Thelonious Alone in San Francisco Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk Monk in France Thelonious Monk in Italy Monk's Dream Criss-Cross Monk in Tokyo Miles & Monk at Newport Big Band and Quartet in Concert It's Monk's Time Monk Solo Monk Live at the It Club Live at the Jazz Workshop Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 Underground Monk's Blues
With others	Midnight at Minton's Bird and Diz Bags' Groove Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Moving Out Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Nica's Tempo In Orbit
Compositions	"In Walked Bud" "'Round Midnight"
Related articles	Blue Note Sessions Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser Rewind & Play

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