Mulligan Meets Monk

Mulligan Meets Monk
Studio album by
Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk
Released 1957
Recorded August 12–13, 1957
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz, bebop
Length 40:52 (Original LP) 59:31 (reissue)
Label Riverside
RLP 12-247
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Gerry Mulligan chronology
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(1957) 		Mulligan Meets Monk
(1957) 		Blues in Time
(1957)
Thelonious Monk chronology
Monk's Music
(1957) 		Mulligan Meets Monk
(1957) 		Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
(1958)
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Mulligan Meets Monk is a studio album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, originally released on Riverside Records in 1957. It has been reissued numerous times. It was remastered for CD in 1987 (on Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics) with three additional alternative takes from the original session.

Track listing

Original LP (1957)

Side One

  1. "'Round Midnight" (Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 8:29
  2. "Rhythm-a-Ning" (Monk) – 5:19
  3. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 7:17

Side Two

  1. "Decidedly" (Gerry Mulligan) – 5:54
  2. "Straight, No Chaser" (Monk) – 7:00
  3. "I Mean You" (Monk, Coleman Hawkins) – 6:53

Digital re-release (1987)

  1. "'Round Midnight" – 8:29
  2. "Rhythm-a-Ning" – 5:19
  3. "Sweet and Lovely" – 7:17
  4. "Decidedly" (original stereo take 4) – 5:54
  5. "Decidedly" (original mono take 5) – 6:37
  6. "Straight, No Chaser" (original take 3) – 7:00
  7. "Straight, No Chaser" (alternate take 1) – 5:29
  8. "I Mean You" (original take 4) – 6:53
  9. "I Mean You" (alternate take 2) – 6:30

Personnel

Musicians

Production

For the CD-release (1987)

  • Phil De Lancie - digital remastering
  • Peter Grant - design