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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
GIANTS OF JAZZ: THELONIOUS MONK AND JOHN COLTRANE
For this special American Routes program, we follow the lives of two giants of jazz: Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. From their humble North Carolina beginnings to their triumphs on the world stage, we’ll trace their individual and inspired paths to creativity. And we’ll visit with the musicians who played with the greats, including McCoy Tyner and Pharoah Sanders, and the next generation, TS Monk and Ravi Coltrane.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Monk's Dream Thelonious Monk Quartet
Monk's Dream, Columbia - Open Bed: We See Thelonious Monk Quintet
The Complete Prestige Recordings, Prestige - A. Early Sound/ New York City
- Excerpt: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, Riverside - Excerpt: I'm Just Wild About Harry Eubie Blake
Memories of You, Biograph - Excerpt: Ida Ida Let Me Know Codallo's Top Hatters
Calypso Ladies 1926-1941, Heritage - Bemsha Swing Thelonious Monk
The Complete Prestige Recordings, Prestige - Excerpt: This is My Story, This is My Song (aka Blessed Assurance) Thelonious Monk
Straight, No Chaser, Columbia/ Legacy - Excerpt: Nutty Thelonious Monk
The Complete Prestige Recordings, Prestige - B. Stride/ Minton's
- Excerpt: Mule Walk James P. Johnson
Father of Stride Piano, Columbia - Excerpt: Nice Work if You Can Get It Thelonious Monk
It's Monk's Time, Columbia - Excerpt: Star Dust Helen Humes & Don Byas w/ Thelonious Monk
Don Byas: Midnight at Minon's, High Note Recording - Excerpt: On the Bean Coleman Hawkins w/ Thelonious Monk
The Complete Prestige Recordings, Prestige - Instrumental: Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk
Straight, No Chaser, Columbia/ Legacy - C. Bebop/ Mentor
- Excerpt: Moose the Mooche Charlie Parker
The Legendary Dial Masters, Vol. 1, Stash - Excerpt: Introspection Thelonious Monk
The Complete Blue Note Recordings, Blue Note - Excerpt: 'Round Midnight Thelonious Monk
The Complete Blue Note Recordings, Blue Note - Excerpt: Misterioso Thelonious Monk
The Complete Blue Note Recordings, Blue Note - Excerpt: Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners, Riverside - Excerpt: Four in One Thelonious Monk
The Complete Blue Note Recordings, Blue Note - Excerpt: Blue Monk Thelonious Monk
The Complete Prestige Recordings, Prestige - D. On Stage/ With Family
- Excerpt: Well, You Needn't Thelonious Monk
Monk's Music, Riverside - Excerpt: Stuff Turkey Thelonious Monk
It's Monk's Time, Columbia - Excerpt: Brake's Sake Thelonious Monk
It's Monk's Time, Columbia - Excerpt: Blues Five Spot Thelonious Monk
Live at the It Club - Complete, Columbia/ Legacy - Excerpt: Nutty Thelonious Monk
The Complete Prestige Recordings, Prestige - Excerpt: Crepuscule With Nellie Thelonious Monk
Monk's Music, Riverside - Excerpt: Skippy Thelonious Monk
The Complete Blue Note Recordings, Blue Note - Excerpt: San Francisco Holiday (Worry Later) Thelonious Monk Quartet Plus Two
At the Blackhawk, Riverside - Instrumental: Bye-Ya Thelonious Monk
The Complete Prestige Recordings, Prestige - E. Last Years/ Legacy
- Excerpt: Reflections Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Alone in San Fransisco, Riverside - Excerpt: Bon Bon Vie TS Monk
House of Music, Mirage - Excerpt: Little Rootie Tootie Thelonious Monk
The Complete Prestige Recordings, Prestige - Excerpt: Little Rootie Tootie TS Monk
Monk on Monk, N2K Encoded - Excerpt: Jackie-ing Jason Marsalis
American Routes original recording, - Excerpt: Crepescule with Nellie Thelonious Monk
Criss-Cross, Columbia/ Legacy - Excerpt: Crepuscule with Nellie Jason Moran
Ten, Blue Note - Excerpt: Thelonious Thelonious Monk
Underground, Columbia - End Bed: Blue Monk The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
My Feet Can't Fail Me Now, Retroworld
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Blue Train John Coltrane
Blue Train, Blue Note - A. Monk & Coltrane
- Excerpt: Monk's Mood Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, Blue Note - Excerpt: Trinkle, Trinkle Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, Jazzland - Excerpt: Epistrophy Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, Blue Note - B. Trane in Training
- Excerpt: Blues Minor The John Coltrane Quartet
Complete Africa/ Brass Sessions, Impulse - We Love to Boogie Dizzy Gillespie Septet
John Coltrane: Complete Recordings with Dizzy Gillespie, Definitive Records - C. Full Throttle
- Excerpt: CTA John Coltrane
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings, Prestige - Excerpt: Bakai John Coltrane
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings, Prestige - Excerpt: Chasing the Trane John Coltrane
Live at the Village Vanguard, Impulse - Instrumental: Bags and Trane Milt Jackson and John Coltrane
Bags and Trane, Atlantic - D. Composing
- Excerpt: So What Miles Davis
Kind of Blue, Columbia - Excerpt: Giant Steps John Coltrane
Giant Steps, Atlantic - Excerpt: Afro Blue John Coltrane
Live at Birdland, Impulse - Excerpt: One Up, One Down John Coltrane
One Up, One Down: Live at the Half Note, Impulse - F. A Love Supreme
- Excerpt: A Love Supreme: Part 1 - Acknowledgement John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Impulse - Excerpt: A Love Supreme: Part 2 - Resolution John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Impulse - A Love Supreme: Part 4 - Psalm John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Impulse - G. Spirituality
- Excerpt: Spiritual John Coltrane
Live at the Village Vanguard, Impulse - Excerpt: Song of Praise John Coltrane
The Coltrane Quartet Plays, Impulse - Instrumental: Out of This World John Coltrane
Coltrane, Impulse - Say It (Over and Over Again) John Coltrane Quartet
Ballads, Impulse - In a Sentimental Mood John Coltrane
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Impulse - H. Alice
- Excerpt: Journey In Satchidananda Alice Coltrane
Journey In Satchidananda, Impulse - Excerpt: Ogunde John Coltrane
Expression, Impulse - I. Legacy
- Excerpt: Wise One John Coltrane
Crescent, Impulse - The Last Blues John Coltrane
Living Space, Impulse
