| Take One | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | T. S. Monk |
| Cover: | Take One (T S Monk album).jpg |
| 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. |
| Chronology: | T. S. Monk |
| Prev Title: | Human |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | Changing of the Guard |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
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]
The album was produced by Don Sickler and Thelonious Monk Jr.[5]
The Ottawa Citizen deemed the album "a straightforward hard bop collection with compositions that come mostly from the mid-50s."[6] 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."
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".