Thelonious Monk - American Composer.
'Round Midnight; Blue Monk; Trinkle Tinkle; Epistrophy; Criss-Cross; Rhythm-a-ning; Pannonica; Evidence; Well, You Needn't; Nutty; Bolivar Blues; Just A Gigolo; I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart; Lulu's Back In Town;
Plus interviews with Randy Weston, Ben Riley, Barry Harris, Billy Taylor, Orrin Keepnews and Thelonious Monk Jr.
60 minutes (Colour and B & W) - BMG 80065-3

The notes from the video.

"Straight : No Chaser" - Thelonious Monk.
Evidence; Rhythm-a-ning; On the Bean; 'Round Midnight; Well, You Needn't; Bright Mississippi; Blue Monk; Trinkle Tinkle; Ugly Beauty; Ask Me Now; Just A Gigolo; Crepuscule With Nellie; I Should Care; We See; Oska T; Epistrophy; Don't Blame Me; Ruby, My Dear; I Mean You; Lulu's Back In Town; Off Minor; Pannonica; Boo Boo's Birthday; Misterioso; Monk's Mood; Sweetheart Of All My Dreams;
Concert and studio performances and interviews.
The soundtrack is available on Columbia CK 45358
90 minutes (B & W and Colour) - Warner Home Video 11896

The notes from the video.
The Warner Brothers Presskit.

"The Sound of Jazz."
Blue Monk; (New York, December 8, 1957)
Thelonious Monk - piano, Ahmed Abdul Malik - bass, Osie Johnson - drums.
A 1957 CBS television broadcast featuring Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster and many other jazz musicians.
58 minutes - Columbia (B & W)
An audio CD of this show is available - but the excerpts do not include the Monk track.

"A Great Day In Harlem."
A film by Jean Bach, this 1994 ABC documentary is about the Art Kane photograph of "everyone" in the jazz world taken in 1958. Conversations with many jazz greats together with some performance footage from "The Sound of Jazz."
Includes interviews with Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Hinton, Marian McPartland and Sonny Rollins.
60 minutes - ABC Video 41110

'Jazz On A Summer's Day.'
Blue Monk; (Newport, 1958)
Thelonious Monk - piano. Henry Grimes - bass. Roy Haynes - drums.
Movie made at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival - other performers include Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chico Hamilton and more.
85 minutes (Colour)

'Les Liaisons Dangereuses.'
A Roger Vadim movie, released in 1960, which has a jazz soundtrack featuring the Thelonious Monk quartet as well as Art Blakey, Barney Wilen and Duke Jordan, who also appear.
Crepuscule with Nellie; Blue Bolivar Blues; Rhythm-a-ning; Well, You Needn't; Pannonica; Light Blue; (1959 - New York)
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Sam Jones - bass. Art Taylor - drums.
111 minutes (B & W - in French, available with English subtitles)

Thelonious Monk - Portrait.
Thelonious; Epistrophy; Blue Monk; Bye Ya; 'Round Midnight; 12 more;
Thelonious Monk - piano.
60 minutes (Colour)

Thelonious Monk - "Japan - Europe 1961 / 1963"
Blue Monk; (New York, December 8, 1957) (this track not listed on the video box)
Thelonious Monk - piano, Ahmed Abdul Malik - bass, Osie Johnson - drums.
'Round Midnight; (1964)
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
Crepuscule with Nellie; Comin' on the Hudson; (Paris 1970)
Thelonious Monk - piano.
Evidence; Blue Monk; Just a Gigolo; Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues are; Epistrophy; (May 23, 1963 - Tokyo)
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Butch Warren - bass. Frankie Dunlop - drums.
52 minutes (B & W) - VIDJAZZ 2

Thelonious Monk in Japan - 1963.
Epistrophy; Blue Monk; Evidence; Just a Gigolo; (May 23, 1963 - Tokyo)
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Butch Warren - bass. Frankie Dunlop - drums.
An audio recording is available on 702-CD from Eastwind, and FS-40044 from Fourstar.
42 minutes (Colour) - Toshiba / EMI TOLW-3123

"Music in Monk Time"
Performances by Thelonious Monk together with tribute performances and recollections by T.S.Monk III, Dizzy Gillespie, Carmen McRae, Milt Jackson, Jon Hendricks and others.
Blue Monk; 'Round Midnight; (Aula - Norway, 1964)
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
Crepuscule with Nellie; Coming on the Hudson; (Paris, 1970)
Thelonious Monk - piano.
Tribute performances include 52nd St. Theme; In Walked Bud; 'Round Midnight; Rhythm-a-ning; Light Blue; Blue Monk; and Little Rootie Tootie;
Songfilms - Jazz/Tribute/VA104

Jazz 625 - Giants of Jazz Golden Era - Thelonious Monk. Volume One.
Recorded at the Marquee Club in London - March 14, 1965.
Epistrophy; Criss Cross; Well, You Needn't; Epistrophy;
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
34 minutes - PNV 1035.

Jazz 625 - Giants of Jazz Golden Era - Thelonious Monk. Volume Two.
Recorded at the Marquee Club in London - March 14, 1965.
Straight, No Chaser; Hackensack; Rhythm-a-ning; Epistrophy;
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
35 minutes - PNV 1036.

Monk in London.
Recorded at the Marquee Club in London - March 14, 1965.
Rhythm-A-Ning; Nutty; Epistrophy;
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
DVD included with "Monk Around the World" CD/DVD set from Thelonious Records - TMF 9323

A review of the CD/DVD from Alastair Johnston.

Liner notes from the CD/DVD.

Solo Monk 6 - "Round Midnight"
Recorded in Paris, 1965
'Round Midnight; Crepuscule with Nellie; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Thelonious; Epistrophy;
Includes interviews.
35 minutes - LJ-601B - (colour)

Thelonious Monk - "Monk in Europe"
Straight No Chaser; Hackensack; Rhythm-a-ning; Epistrophy; (London 1965)
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
Sophisticated Lady; Caravan; Solitude; (Berlin 1969)
Thelonious Monk - piano.
46 minutes (b & w and colour) - vidjazz 18

Monk in Oslo.
(Recorded by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation on April 15, 1966)
Lulu's back in Town; Blue Monk; 'Round Midnight;
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
DVD included with "Monk In Paris" CD/DVD set from Thelonious Records - TMF 9316

Monk in Oslo.
(Recorded by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation on April 15, 1966)
Lulu's back in Town; Blue Monk; 'Round Midnight;
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
VHS 33 minutes (B & W) Rhapsody films - 9024

The notes from the Rhapsody films video.

Thelonious Monk - in Paris - 1969.
Recorded at the Salle Pleyel, December 15, 1969.
I Mean You; Ruby My Dear; Straight, No Chaser; Nutty; Blue Monk; Bright Mississippi; Light Blue; Epistrophy; Don't Blame Me; (Just one way to say) I Love You; Crepuscule with Nellie.
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Nate Hygelund - bass. Paris Wright - drums. Philly Joe Jones - drums.
70 minutes (Colour) - Pioneer LDC-PILS-1103

Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk '69.
(Monk plays solo on Paris Television)
Crepuscule with Nellie; 'Round Midnight; Coming On The Hudson; Nice Work If You Can Get It; and more
Thelonious Monk - piano.
35 minutes (Colour)

Miscellaneous Items
Monk's music has also been heard in several other movies.
Well, You Needn't was played by Monk on the soundtrack of "Lenny", a Bob Fosse picture from 1974.
A Monk recording of Off Minor was on the soundtrack of "Die Hard : With a Vengeance."
"The Homecoming", a Peter Hall movie from 1973 included the Monk & Mulligan recording of 'Round Midnight.
Monk playing 'Round Midnight is heard in the 1995 movie "Devil in a Blue Dress" starring Denzil Washington & Jennifer Beals