DESCRIPTION:
"Straight, No Chaser" is an album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk, released in 1967.

Monks final quartet and sixth studio album, produced by Columbia’s Teo Macero, the man behind a lot of Miles Davis. This has to be Monk’s finest album, apart from all the others. The title track is best known among the DJ-tendancy, due to its “hard-drinking, cool bartending” attitude, but my preference is for the marvelous Locomotive, best known among recovering train spotters. I can’t get the tune out of my head (apologies to Kylie). Charlie Rouse is totally in sync with Monk’s thinking, and offers up some of his best playing, sometimes angular echoing Monk, but with nifty figures in a warm rounded tone. The whole album is very rhythmic and hard-swinging...(LondonJazzCollector)
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Tracklist:
01.Locomotive (T.Monk)...(00:00)
02.I Didn't Know About You (D.Ellington)...(06:40)
03.Straight, No Chaser (T.Monk)...(13:35)
04.Japanese Folk Song (Kojo No Tsuki)...(25:05)
05.Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea (H.Arlen/T.Koehler)...(41:50)
06.We See (T.Monk)...(49:30).
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Personnel:
1.Thelonious Monk - piano
2.Charlie Rouse - tenor sax
3.Larry Gales - bass
4.Ben Riley - drums.
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Genre:Jazz
Recorded:at Columbia Records 30th Street Studio,New York;1966-1967.
Label:CBS – 63009
Country:UK(1967)
Design [Cover Assemblage] – Laszlo Kubinyi
Liner Notes – Orrin Keepnews
Producer – Teo Macero.