What is the best Thelonis Monk record?

Why not bridge the gap and go for two great artists at once?

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall.

I recently picked it up and the performance is simply astounding

After Hours at Minton's (1943)

Genius Of Modern Music: Volume 1 (1947-1948)

Genius Of Modern Music: Volume 2 (1947-1952)

Thelonious Monk Trio (1952)

Monk (1953)

Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (1953)

Thelonious Monk plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)

The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)

Brilliant Corners (1957)

Thelonious Himself (1957)

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1957)

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1957)

Monk's Music (1957)

Mulligan Meets Monk (1957, with Gerry Mulligan)

Blues Five Spot (1958)

Thelonious in Action (1958)

Misterioso (1958)

The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959)

5 by Monk by 5 (1958)

Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1958)

Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (1960)

Monk in France (1961)

Monk's Dream (1962)

Criss Cross (1962)

Monk in Tokyo (1963)

Miles and Monk at Newport (1963, with unrelated Miles Davis performance)

Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963)

It's Monk's Time (1964)

Monk. (1964)

Solo Monk (1964)

Live at the It Club (1964)

Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)

Straight, No Chaser (1966)

Underground (1967)

Monk's Blues (1968)

The London Collection (1971, three volumes)

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (2005)