Mulligan Meets Monk by Thelonious Monk

Mulligan Meets Monk puts two very different jazz minds in the same room: Thelonious Monk at the piano and Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone. Orrin Keepnews produced it for Riverside, which released it in 1957, right after Monk's Music.

Monk's playing is all angles here, jabbing dissonances, sudden silences and that hard, percussive attack, and Mulligan's big, warm baritone has to find its way around the corners. The meeting includes a run at "'Round Midnight", one of the Monk tunes that had already become part of the standard jazz repertoire. The record has been reissued many times, and a 1987 CD remaster on Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics line added three alternate takes from the original session.

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