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Straight, No Chaser is an album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk, released in 1967. The album was reissued on CD in 1996, including restored versions of previously abridged performances and three additional tracks. ‘This is a new album by Thelonious Monk, and therefore it is an important event—because everything musical that Monk does is of real importance. This is not a matter of choice, but of inevitability. It would no more be possible for Thelonious to be trivial or casual or superficial than it would be for the sun to decide some morning to rise in the west. It is
| 1 | Locomotive | ♡ | 6:40 | Thelonious Monk |
| 2 | I Didn’t Know About You (take 4) | ♡ | 6:52 | Duke Ellington / Bob Russell |
| 3 | Straight, No Chaser | ♡ | 11:28 | Thelonious Monk |
| 4 | Japanese Folk Song (Kojo No Tsuki) | ♡ | 16:40 | Bansui Doi / Rentarō Taki |
| 5 | Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | ♡ | 7:35 | Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler |
| 6 | We See | ♡ | 11:35 | Thelonious Monk |
| 7 | This Is My Story, This Is My Song | ♡ | 1:41 | Fanny Crosby / Phoebe P. Knapp |
| 8 | I Didn’t Know About You (take 1) | ♡ | 6:48 | Duke Ellington / Bob Russell |
| 9 | Green Chimneys | ♡ | 6:33 | Thelonious Monk |
Links
- Folder:
R:\__Jazz\_T\Thelonious Monk\1966. Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser (Columbia 1999) [SACD][DSD64] - Explorer: Open folder
- AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/album/MW0000205937
Credits
Bass — Larry Gales Drums — Ben Riley Mastered By — Kevin Gray, Robert Pincus Piano — Thelonious Monk Tenor Saxophone — Charlie Rouse
Materials
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