Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk album)

Straight, No Chaser
Studio album by Thelonious Monk
Released 1967
Recorded 1966-1967
Genre Jazz
Length 75:56
Label Columbia
Producer Teo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology
Misterioso (Recorded on Tour)
(1965)
Straight, No Chaser
(1967)
Underground
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

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.

Track Listing (1996 CD Reissue)

  1. "Locomotive" (Thelonious Monk) - 6:40
  2. "I Didn't Know About You" (Duke Ellington) - 6:52
  3. "Straight, No Chaser" (Th. Monk) - 11:28
  4. "Japanese Folk Song (Kōjō no Tsuki)" (Rentarō Taki) - 16:42
  5. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen) - 7:36
  6. "We See" (Th. Monk) - 11:37

Bonus Tracks on CD reissue

  1. "This Is My Story, This Is My Song" (Phoebe Knapp) - 1:42 (better known by the title "Blessed Assurance")
  2. "I Didn't Know About You" (D. Ellington) - 6:49
  3. "Green Chimneys" (Th. Monk) - 6:34

Personnel

References

  1. Planer, Lindsay. Straight, No Chaser at AllMusic
  2. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.


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