Music like Ruby My Dear

This is a list of compositions by jazz musician Thelonious Monk.

A contrafact based loosely on rhythm changes in C, and was copyrighted by Monk under the title "Nameless" in April 1944. The tune was also called "Bip Bop" by Monk, and he claims that the tune's latter title was the origin of the genre-defining name bebop. It quickly became popular as an opening and closing tune on the clubs on 52nd Street on Manhattan where Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker played. It was first recorded by Dizzy Gillespie's sextet on February 22, 1946, under the title "52nd Street Theme". Leonard Feather claims he gave the latter title.

A tonally ambiguous ballad in D♭ first recorded on July 23, 1951, for the Genius of Modern Music sessions. It also appears on 5 by Monk by 5, and Solo Monk. Jon Hendricks wrote lyrics to the tune and called it ”How I Wish”; it was first recorded by Carmen McRae on Carmen Sings Monk. Mark Murphy sings a version (the lyric is credited to Ben Sidran) on his album Kerouac, Then and Now.