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• Despite various reissue formats over several decades, the seven original LPs contained in Thelonious Monk The Riverside Tenor Sessions stood perfectly well on their own at the time of initial release and remain among the highest achievements of a truly golden age. Recorded and released between 1956 and 1961, these seven Monk combo albums were critical in Monk’s emergence from a decade of ridicule and neglect to his status at the pinnacle of the jazz pantheon.

  5 by Monk by 5 was deliberately conceived and executed as a quintet album. The “five” are made up of what was, at the time of the 1959 sessions, Monk’s regular working quartet plus Thad Jones. That is to say, a well-integrated unit with a striking added voice absorbed into it. Th