By Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane. Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane are universally recognized as musical geniuses. The idea of Monk and Coltrane--the genius mentor and the budding genius--on the same bandstand or in the same recording studio is like Julius Erving and Michael Jordan soaring as teammates, or Jean Renoir and Francois Truffaut collaborating on a film. For an all-too-brief, magical time in 1957, Monk and Coltrane actually did work together every night as part of a quartet led by the uniquely brilliant pianist-composer Monk at New York's now-fabled Five Spot Cafe. And between April and July of that year they made the stunning music contained herein, their complete output in the recording studio. Audio CD. Riverside (2006). Number of Discs: 2.

Disc 1 

   1. Monk's Mood [false start] 0:55 

   2. Monk's Mood 7:52 Album Only 

   3. Crepuscule With Nellie [take 1] 4:34  

   4. Crepuscule With Nellie [take 2] 4:42  

   5. Crepuscule With Nellie [breakdown] 0:55 

   6. Blues For Tomorrow [first stereo release] 13:33  

   7. Crepuscule With Nellie (Album Version - (takes 4 and 5 bonus track)) 4:46   

   8. Crepuscule With Nellie (Album Version - (take 6)) 4:39  

   9. Off Minor (Album Version - (take 4)) 5:15  

 10. Off Minor (Album Version - (take 5)) 5:07  

Disc 2:  

   1. Abide With Me [take 1] 0:54  

   2. Abide With Me 0:55  

   3. Epistrophy (Album Version - (alternate take)) 3:09  

   4. Epistrophy (Album Version) 10:46 

   5. Well You Needn't (Album Version - (Opening)) 1:26  

   6. Well You Needn't (Album Version) 11:23

   7. Ruby, My Dear (Album Version) 5:26  

   8. Ruby, My Dear (Album Version) 6:21 

   9. Nutty 6:38 

 10. Trinkle, Tinkle