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On one level, Monk was a far-out pianist, with his brittle discords, homemade keyboard technique and unnerving hesitations and silences. Monk did like to dig out old tunes: That same album includes Irving Berlin's "Remember" from 1925, as well as a couple of all-but-forgotten songs, "You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart" and "There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie." The third of his four solo albums, and maybe the most obscure, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco is now back out. The next day, he went into a North Beach auditorium to begin work on a solo album, appropriately titled Thelonious Alone in San Francisco. Monk then traveled alone to San Francisco to play at the Blackhawk nightclub the first night his musicians arrived late, and he had to play two sets with last-minute replacements. In Los Angeles, he played at the Hollywood Bowl, and his wife Nellie was hospitalized with gastrointestinal problems. New York pianist Thelonious Monk spent a month in California in 1959. William Gottlieb/Library of Congress via Flickr

Thelonious Monk, photographed at Minton's Playhouse in 1947.