| Thelonious Alone in San Francisco | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 1959 | |||
| Recorded | October 21 and 22, 1959 | |||
| Venue | Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:25 | |||
| Label | Riverside | |||
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
| Thelonious Monk chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
| DownBeat | [5] |
Thelonious Alone in San Francisco is jazz pianist Thelonious Monk's third solo album, recorded in 1959.[6][7] (Piano Solo, aka Solo 1954, recorded in Paris,[8] and Thelonious Himself (1957), were Monk's previous forays into this form.)
It was recorded in Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, California, on October 21 and 22, 1959, but without an audience present.
"Bluehawk" and "Round Lights" were improvised blues which appeared only in these recorded versions. The other Monk compositions had appeared in prior recordings.
- ^ Planer, Lindsay. Thelonious Alone in San Francisco at AllMusic
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1025. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Gleason, Ralph J. (31 March 1960). "Review of Thelonius Alone in San Francisco" (PDF). DownBeat. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Thelonious Monk: Making The Piano Hum". NPR.org.
- ^ Yanow, Scott (May 11, 2000). Bebop. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306083 – via Google Books.
- ^ Thelonious Alone in San Francisco at AllMusic