Prestige session · in the studio
September 22, 1954
Thelonious Monk Trio
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ
- This day's music is on 2 records: Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk
In the room
Thelonious Monk – piano
Percy Heath – bass
Art Blakey – drums
The takes
What the numbers mean
918 is a matrix number: Prestige gave every tune it recorded the next number in one running series. Most dates kept only the take that was issued, so there's seldom a take number beside it.
| Matrix · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| 619 | Work | PRLP 7075 |
| 620 | Nutty | PRLP 7075 |
| 621 | Blue Monk | PRLP 7027 |
| 622 | Just A Gigolo | PRLP 7027 |
4 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it
Where it ended up
PRLP 7075 · 1957Thelonious Monk, Sonny RollinsThelonious Monk Quintet Featuring Sonny Rollins
PRLP 7027 · 1956Thelonious MonkThelonious Monk TrioTogether elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
The whole band 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRLP 7053 | Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Monk Quintet Featuring Sonny Rollins | 1956 | Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath, Art Blakey |
2 of them 27 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 5002 | Genius Of Modern Music · not on the site yet | Thelonious Monk | 1952 | Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5009 | Genius Of Modern Music Vol. 2 · not on the site yet | Thelonious Monk | 1952 | Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5011 | Wizard Of The Vibes · not on the site yet | Milt Jackson | 1952 | Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5021 | New Faces-New Sounds · not on the site yet | Lou Donaldson | 1953 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5022 | Miles Davis Vol. 2 · not on the site yet | The Miles Davis Sextet | 1953 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5032 | New Star On The Horizon · not on the site yet | Clifford Brown | 1953 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5034 | Spotlight On Drums · not on the site yet | Horace Silver Trio Vol. 2/Art Blakey-Sabu | 1954 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5040 | Miles Davis Vol. 3 · not on the site yet | Miles Davis Quartet | 1954 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5044 | New Faces-New Sounds · not on the site yet | Elmo Hope Quintet Vol. 2 | 1954 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5055 | Lou Donaldson Sextet Vol. 2 · not on the site yet | Lou Donaldson Sextet | 1954 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1501 | Miles Davis Volume 1 | Miles Davis | 1955 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1502 | Miles Davis Volume 2 | Miles Davis | 1956 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1509 | Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet | Milt Jackson | 1956 | Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1510 | Genius of Modern Music Volume 1 | Thelonious Monk | 1956 | Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1511 | Genius of Modern Music Volume 2 | Thelonious Monk | 1956 | Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1520 | Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey-Sabu | Horace Silver | 1956 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1526 | Memorial Album | Clifford Brown | 1956 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| PRLP 7022 | The Brothers | Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Allen Eager, Brew Moore | 1956 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| PRLP 7029 | Sonny Rollins With The Modern Jazz Quartet, Art Blakey And Kenny Drew | Sonny Rollins Quartet | 1956 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| PRLP 7054 | Blue Haze | Miles Davis | 1956 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| PRLP 7058 | Moving Out | Sonny Rollins | 1956 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1535 | Afro-Cuban | Kenny Dorham | 1957 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1537 | Quartet/Quintet/Sextet | Lou Donaldson | 1957 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1558 | Sonny Rollins Volume 2 | Sonny Rollins | 1957 | Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey | |
| PRLP 7109 | Bags Groove | Miles Davis | 1957 | Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath | |
| PRLP 7128 | King Pleasure Sings, Annie Ross Sings | Annie Ross With Teacho Wiltshire And His Band | 1958 | Percy Heath, Art Blakey | |
| PRLP 7150 | Miles Davis And The Modern Jazz Giants | Miles Davis All Stars | 1959 | Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath |