Nice Work If You Can Get It (1947 Blue Note studio recording, matrix # BN312-1, master take)

~ Recording by Thelonious Monk

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.3Nice Work If You Can Get It3:00Thelonious MonkGenius of Modern Music, Volume 2Thelonious MonkAlbum
Blue NoteBLP 5009
1.14Nice Work If You Can Get It3:00Thelonious MonkThe Complete GeniusThelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
Blue NoteBN-LA579-H2, BN-LA579-H2 -0798
1.8Nice Work If You Can Get It3:03Thelonious MonkThe Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious MonkThelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
Mosaic Records (US jazz reissues)MR4-101
1.8Nice Work If You Can Get It3:04Thelonious MonkGenius of Modern Music, Volume 1Thelonious MonkAlbum
Blue NoteCDP 7 81510 2
1.8Nice Work If You Can Get It3:04Thelonious MonkThe Complete Blue Note RecordingsThelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
  • US1994-10-18
Blue NoteCDP 7243 8 30363 2 5
1.3Nice Work If You Can Get It3:04Thelonious MonkMore Genius of Thelonious MonkThelonious MonkAlbum
Blue NoteTOCJ-1604
1.8Nice Work If You Can Get It3:04Thelonious MonkGenius of Modern Music, Volume 1 (Reissue)Thelonious MonkAlbum
Blue Note0724 3 49459 5 2
1.7Nice Work If You Can Get It2:59Thelonious Monk1944/1948Thelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
EPM Musique, Jazz Archives159502, N° 146
1.5Nice Work If You Can Get It3:03Thelonious MonkComplete 1947 - 1952 Blue Note RecordingsThelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
Disconforme S.L. (Andorra Label)JFCD22838
1.5Nice Work If You Can Get It3:04Thelonious MonkThe Chronological Classics: Thelonious Monk 1947-1948Thelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
Classics Records (compilations of the Chronological Series)1118
1.7Nice Work If You Can Get It3:01Thelonious MonkGenius of Modern Music, Volume 1Thelonious MonkAlbum
  • US2001-07-31
Blue Note5321382
1.7Nice Work If You Can Get It3:01Thelonious MonkGenius of Modern Music, Volume 1Thelonious MonkAlbum
  • XW2001-07-31
Blue Note
1.7Nice Work If You Can Get It3:01Thelonious MonkGenius of Modern Music Volume One (RVG edition)Thelonious MonkAlbum
Blue Note5321382, 7243 5 32138 2 4
1.8Nice Work If You Can Get It3:04Thelonious MonkGenius of Modern Music, Volume 1 (1989 Bonus Tracks)Thelonious MonkAlbum
  • US2004-04-27
Blue NoteCDP-581510
95.8Nice Work If You Can Get It3:02Thelonious MonkThe Ultimate Jazz ArchiveVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2005-08-29
Membran Music Ltd.222800-387
3.8Nice Work If You Can Get It3:02Thelonious MonkThe Ultimate Jazz Archive, Set 24: Swing to Bebop, Modern JazzEddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Lennie Tristano, Thelonious Monk, Fats NavarroAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2005-08-29
Membran Music Ltd.222780-382
1.10Nice Work If You Can Get It3:03Thelonious MonkMidnight MonkThelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
Pr1moPRMCD6011
48.5Nice Work If You Can Get It3:01Thelonious Monk TrioThe Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 4/5: Bebop Story – A Musical Revolution That Radically Changed the Road of JazzVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2008-10-24
Documents (German, Membran Entertainment Group), Membran International GmbH232096
17.8Nice Work If You Can Get It3:04Thelonious MonkBlue Note: Collectors EditionVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • KR2010-03-01
EMI (EMI Records, since 1972)EKJ25D0290
(unknown)
1.1Nice Work If You Can Get It3:02Thelonious MonkMonk's MoodThelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
Rajon Music GroupRMGS 1012
1.9Nice Work If You Can Get It3:04Thelonious MonkThelonious Monk Masters of Jazz cd2Thelonious MonkAlbum + Compilation
Next Music (France)R2CD 8039

Relationships

double bass:Gene Ramey (on 1947-10-24)
drums (drum set):Art Blakey (on 1947-10-24)
piano:Thelonious Monk (on 1947-10-24)
recorded at:WOR Studios in New York, New York, United States (on 1947-10-24)
recording of:Nice Work If You Can Get It (on 1947-10-24: instrumental)

Related works

Nice Work If You Can Get It

lyricist:Ira Gershwin (in 1937)
composer:George Gershwin (composer) (in 1937)
publisher:Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA)
Gershwin Publishing Corp (in 1937)
referred to in medleys:A Foggy Day / Nice Work If You Can Get It
part of:A Damsel in Distress (1937 film score)
Crazy for You (1992 musical)
My One and Only (1983 Broadway Musical) (number)