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Misterioso (Recorded On Tour)

Thelonious Monk

Recorded	1963
Label	Columbia
Released	1963
Personnel	6 credited players
Discogs	master 222566

The record

Roadwork shows in these touring tapes -- Rouse worries a blues theme loose and easy while two rhythm sections, months apart, keep the crooked pulse honest.

Session personnel

Butch Warren — bass
Larry Gales — bass
Ben Riley — drums
Frankie Dunlop — drums
Thelonious Monk — piano
Charlie Rouse — tenor saxophone

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

1965 Columbia is the front of this list, and the earliest rows we hold are Canadian -- stereo CS 9216 and mono CL 2416. US copies of CS 9216 follow the same year, one listed as a Terre Haute pressing. Europe picked it up in 1966 on CBS: BPG 62620 mono and SBPG 62620 stereo in the UK. There is no audiophile line in our data here; the later options are Sony's 487742 1 from 1999 and 88985434541 from 2017, both ordinary repressings.

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 27 pressings on file.

1965	Columbia · CS 9216 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1965	Columbia — STEREO
1965	Columbia · CS 9216 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo
1965	Columbia · CL 2416 — Vinyl, LP, Mono
1965	Columbia · CS 9216 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
1966	CBS · SBPG 62620 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo
1966	CBS · 62620 — Vinyl, LP, Mono
1966	CBS · BPG 62620 — Vinyl, LP, Mono
1966	CBS · S 62.620 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo
1966	CBS · YS-626-C — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1970	Columbia · CS 9216 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1970	CBS/Sony · SONP 50311 — Vinyl, LP, Promo, Stereo
1970	CBS/Sony · SONP 50311 — Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Stereo
1974	CBS/Sony · SOPU 87 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue