At the Blackhawk

At the Blackhawk
Live album by
Thelonious Monk Quartet plus Two
Released1960
RecordedApril 29, 1960
VenueBlack Hawk, San Francisco
GenreJazz
Length46:31 (LP)
59:00 (CD reissue)
LabelRiverside
RLP 12-323
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Thelonious Monk Quartet plus Two chronology
Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
(1959)
At the Blackhawk
(1960)
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
DownBeat[1]
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]

At the Blackhawk is a live album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk recorded on April 29, 1960 at the Black Hawk and released on Riverside later that year.[6]

  1. ^ DownBeat: September 15, 1960 Vol. 27, No. 19
  2. ^ AllMusic review
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1025. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ^ Allmusic entry for Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk