Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk album)

Straight, No Chaser
Studio album by
Thelonious Monk
Released1967
Recorded1966–1967
GenreJazz
Length51:24 (original LP)
75:56 (CD reissue)
LabelColumbia
ProducerTeo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology
Misterioso (Recorded on Tour)
(1965)		 Straight, No Chaser
(1967)		 Underground
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar[1]
DownBeatStarStarStarHalf star[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStar[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStar[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStarStar[5]

Straight, No Chaser is the sixth studio album Thelonious Monk recorded for Columbia Records, released in 1967. The album was reissued on CD in 1996, including restored versions of previously abridged performances and three additional tracks.

Track listing

All songs are written by Thelonious Monk except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Locomotive" – 6:38
  2. "I Didn't Know About You" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 6:50
  3. "Straight, No Chaser" – 10:31

Side two

  1. "Japanese Folk Song" (Rentarō Taki)[note 1] – 11:03
  2. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 7:34
  3. "We See" – 8:48

CD reissue

  1. "Locomotive" – 6:40
  2. "I Didn't Know About You" (Ellington) – 6:52
  3. "Straight, No Chaser" – 11:28
  4. "Japanese Folk Song (Kōjō no Tsuki)" (Taki) – 16:42
  5. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Arlen, Koehler) – 7:36
  6. "We See" – 11:37
  7. "This Is My Story, This Is My Song" (Phoebe Knapp) – 1:42 (better known by the title "Blessed Assurance")
  8. "I Didn't Know About You" (Ellington) – 6:49
  9. "Green Chimneys" – 6:34

Personnel

Notes

  1. ↑ On the original LP, the song "Kōjō no Tsuki" by Rentarō Taki was incorrectly identified as a "Japanese folk song" of unknown provenance. This was corrected on reissues of the album.

References

  1. ↑ Planer, Lindsay. Straight, No Chaser at AllMusic
  2. ↑ DownBeat: June 29, 1967 vol. 34, no. 13
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1024. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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