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Something In Blue

Recorded	Nov 1971
Label	Jazz Man
Released	1971
Personnel	3 credited players
Discogs	master 282378

The record

Blakey and McKibbon, both longtime associates, join Monk for a sparse, unhurried trio session from his final recorded decade. The playing is searching rather than showy, standards bent quietly to his own logic.

Session personnel

Thelonious Monk — piano
Al McKibbon — bass
Art Blakey — drums

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 31 pressings on file.

1972	Polydor · 2460 152 — Vinyl, LP, Album earliest on file
1972	Black Lion Records · PA-7041 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1972	Black Lion Records · BL 278.083 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1972	Freedom · BLP 30.119 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1972	Polydor · 2460 152 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1972	Black Lion Records · BLP 30119 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1973	Black Lion Records · BL-152 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo
1973	Black Lion Records · BKC 9019 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1974	Black Lion Records · BL-152 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1974	Black Lion Records · BL-152 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1974	Black Lion Records · BL-152 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1975	Black Lion Records · BLP 30119 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1977	Black Lion Records · PA-6101 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1980	Jazz Man