Live at the Jazz Workshop

Live at the Jazz Workshop is a live album by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, that was recorded at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. The album was recorded on November 3 and 4, 1964,^[5] and released by Columbia Records in 1982.

Live at the Jazz Workshop
Live album by Thelonious Monk
Released	1982
Recorded	November 3 & 4, 1964
Venue	Jazz Workshop, San Francisco
Genre	Jazz
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology
Live at the It Club (1964) Live at the Jazz Workshop (1982) Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) (1965)
Alternative cover
Cover of the 2001 CD reissue

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

Release history

The tapes of these two shows stayed locked away in the Columbia Records vault for almost 20 years, until the label released a double-LP from them shortly after Monk's death in 1982.^[6] A CD release followed in 2001, under the name of Live at the Jazz Workshop - Complete, featuring a number of bonus tracks, and nearly doubling the length of the record.

Track listing

1982 release

Side 1

1. "Don't Blame Me/Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are"
2. "Well, You Needn't"
3. "Evidence (Justice)/Rhythm-A-Ning"
4. "'Round About Midnight"
5. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"

Side 2

1. "Bemsha Swing"
2. "Memories of You/Just You, Just Me"
3. "Blue Monk"
4. "Misterioso"
5. "Hackensack"
6. "Bright Mississippi"
7. "Epistrophy"

Live at the Jazz Workshop: Complete (2001)

CD 1 [November 3, 1964]

1. "Don't Blame Me" – 1:43
2. "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are" – 7:32
3. "Well, You Needn't" – 10:30
4. "Evidence/Rhythm-A-Ning" – 6:24
5. "Epistrophy" (theme) – 1:05
6. "Hackensack" – 8:03
7. "Bright Mississippi" – 2:50
8. "Evidence" – 4:36
9. "Epistrophy" – 3:53
10. "Round Midnight" 6:06
11. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" – 6:41
12. "Memories of You" – 2:28
13. "Just You, Just Me" – 6:44
14. "Epistrophy" – 5:28

CD 2 [November 4, 1964]

1. "Blue Monk" – 7:06
2. "Well, You Needn't" – 8:08
3. "Bright Mississippi" – 8:11
4. "Bemsha Swing" – 4:09
5. "Round Midnight" – 6:27
6. "Nutty" – 8:08
7. "Straight, No Chaser" – 6:29
8. "Thelonious" – 3:57
9. "Hackensack" – 5:35
10. "Misterioso" – 6:52
11. "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are" – 7:47
12. "Epistrophy" (theme) – 1:02

Personnel

• Thelonious Monk – piano
• Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone
• Larry Gales – bass
• Ben Riley – drums

References

1. Live at the Jazz Workshop at AllMusic
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1023. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
5. "Monk – Live At The Jazz Workshop - Complete (2001, Bonus Tracks, CD)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
6. "Thelonious Monk – Live at the Jazz Workshop (1982, Vinyl)". Discogs.