Thelonious Monk United States

Variations: The Thelonious Monk Orchestra, The Thelonious Monk Quartet, Thelonious Monk Quintet, Thelonious Monk Septet, Thelonious Monk Trio.

The best album credited to Thelonious Monk is Brilliant Corners which is ranked number 611 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 2,928.

Thelonious Monk is ranked number 259 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 7,849 (this takes into account any aliases or variations).

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Thelonious Monk best albums

The following albums by Thelonious Monk are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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1957
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2,928
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1963
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1,158
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1957
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617
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1951
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559
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1958
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510
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1952
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332
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1967
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297
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1954
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161
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1968
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127
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1965
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Total albums: 53. Page 1 of 6

This may not be a complete discography for Thelonious Monk.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

Thelonious Monk bestography composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 16 0%
1960s 13 0%
1970s 0 0%
1980s 9 0%
1990s 4 0%
2000s 5 0%
2010s 4 0%
2020s 2 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 38 72%
Yes 15 28%
Live? Albums %
No 39 74%
Yes 14 26%

Thelonious Monk best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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Rating: 85 (73 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Brilliant Corners)
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Rating: 85 (71 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Brilliant Corners)
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Rating: 85 (73 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Brilliant Corners)
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Rating: 84 (69 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Brilliant Corners)
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Rating: 83 (73 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Brilliant Corners)
6.
Rating: 82 (10 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Thelonious Monk Trio)
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Rating: 82 (14 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Straight, No Chaser)
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Rating: 81 (8 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Underground)
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Rating: 81 (23 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Monk's Music)
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Rating: 81 (37 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Monk's Dream)
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Rating: 80 (7 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Underground)
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Rating: 80 (23 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Monk's Music)
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Rating: 80 (7 votes)Comments: 0
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Rating: 80 (11 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Straight, No Chaser)
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Rating: 80 (8 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Underground)
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Rating: 80 (8 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Thelonious Monk Trio)
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Rating: 80 (6 votes)Comments: 0
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Rating: 80 (8 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Underground)
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Rating: 80 (8 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Thelonious Monk Trio)
N.B. Tracks must have received at least 3 ratings to appear in the above list.

Thelonious Monk ratings

Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 43 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 83.3/100, a mean average of 84.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.2/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 12.7.

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From 01/01/2022 06:56
When the frost starts, I start listening to Monk a lot again.

It is important to not resist the cycle of the seasons-- they will not note or care about your resistance, and you will experience their inevitability. Monk is for contemplation, inner growth, the things one needs to do for a while every winter. You will open your door and smell mud instead of ice again soon enough, and then it will be time once more for dixieland or Poco...
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