Take One (T. S. Monk album)

Take One is an album by the American musician T. S. Monk.^[1][2] It was released on the Blue Note label in 1992.^[3] Monk supported the album with a European tour.^[4]

Take One
Studio album by T. S. Monk
Released	1992
Recorded	October 16, 1991
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	66:39
Label	Blue Note CDP 7 99614 2
Producer	Don Sickler, Thelonious Monk Jr.
T. S. Monk chronology
Human (1982) Take One (1992) Changing of the Guard (1993)

Production

The album was produced by Don Sickler and Thelonious Monk Jr.^[5]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
The Indianapolis Star	[7]

The Ottawa Citizen deemed the album "a straightforward hard bop collection with compositions that come mostly from the mid-50s."^[8] The Indianapolis Star wrote that, "though the arrangements are based on originals recorded by his father's generation, this doesn't seem like a ghost-band venture."^[7]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Drummer T.S. Monk's debut as a leader in jazz found him discarding his earlier R&B-ish music in favor of heading an impressive hard bop revival group ... The T.S. Monk Sextet was just beginning its long life with this recording; all of its CDs are highly recommended to hard bop fans".^[6]

Track listing

1. "Monaco" (Kenny Dorham) – 6:34
2. "Skippy" (Thelonious Monk) – 3:40
3. "Infra-Rae" (Hank Mobley) – 6:07
4. "Waiting" (Idrees Sulieman) – 5:43
5. "Boa" (Elmo Hope) – 4:49
6. "Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) – 7:28
7. "Jodi" (Walter Davis Jr.) – 4:34
8. "Bear Cat" (Clifford Jordan) – 3:54
9. "Capetown Ambush" (Donald Brown) – 5:35
10. "Shoutin'" (Tommy Turrentine) – 6:14
11. "Minor's Holiday" (Dorham) – 5:22
12. "Think of One" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:39

Personnel

• T. S. Monk – drums
• Don Sickler – trumpet
• Bobby Porcelli – alto saxophone
• Willie Williams – tenor saxophone
• Ronnie Mathews – piano
• James Genus – bass