Monk has such a sarcastic and aggressiv way of playing, but in a good way. He doesn't try to avoid the conflict he is searching for it. Thats why I like his music so much. It's pure Art!
Yes it’s art .. that’s exactly what it is .. never mean just human and humorous .. sarcasm yes but that’s essential and characterful in any sane person .. pure genius artist .. 💯
My wife has a master's degree in piano from the Soviet Union, and she called Monk the greatest pianist in America, and that his compositions were on the highest level.
Haha at 3:50 Monk is just genius. He absolutely does not care about the critics that call him elephant, he just does his own thing. His whole way of hitting the keys is just saying so much.
Monk was a genius but he suffered very much his wife would dress him for his gigs his son said it was hard growing up when sometimes your dad does not know who you are. Very sad but what a musician
I cottoned on to Monk in the late 1960's and early '70's, when all my contemporaries were already listening to rock. I took two of my friends to a concert of Monk's at Carnegie Hall (or Philharmonic Hall, I don't remember). They thought I was crazy but I was mesmerized. He has never been surpassed in my book.
Bwaaaaah! he crax me up! I studied his technique and voicing . When I listen today , I mean REALLY listen I DO hear the "outside" intervals he uses in his comping. In his second solo he is only changing the top note of the interval , then he does the same interval but moving up or down by whole or half steps. I love the point where he feels the need to leave his own rhythm section. Then listen to the bass, the only shred of harmony available , step in cause he has no other choice until Monk comes back from outer space. God bless our Monk.
I feel like only someone as mad and as ingenious as Monk could possibly understand this music on a deep level. He'll just do these strange little repetitive things with exotic chords, and it makes me wonder what's going through his head. I think he heard music in a profoundly different way than everybody else.
Hexatonic I mean where he just keeps playing the same right hand chord as an upper structure over seven or eight chords in his left hand. He just keeps harping on it, and somehow it reaches this weird catharsis.
You know, at certain times in both Monk's comping and his solos, I can hear a kind of pre hip hop. And I also thought that part of what made Charlie Rouse an ideal "foil" for Monk's compositions was that Rouse struck me as more of a R&B player who nevertheless knew jazz "language" and could therefore solo effectively. Especially as regards Thelonious' musical universe.
In a world of musicians to be absolutely unique speaks volumes for Monk's talent. Here he is both asymetrical and abstract in soloing and yet he quotes C Jam Blues. A very fine player and composer indeed. Thank for the clip.
I feel so sad for the folks who gave this a thumbs down...obviously no sense of invention, intellectual history, culture, and an understanding of the international bond that jazz creates.
You can never go wrong in this country betting on the lowest common denominator in taste. This, overall, is a Philistine country and proud of it's overarching ignorance. Obviously, there are many millions not like this. But, unfortunately, there are many, many millions more who are. And I"m not just talking about whether or not you dig Jazz or not.
Daniel Martine truth be told, i love monk, i love jazz. but id also argue jazz is dead, and its inability to reach the lowest common denominator is part of the problem. its not the country's problem.
The way he plays the piano it's like the moment before the mind and ears realize something not right and ar the edge of that moment he sneaks the sound end. Brilliant!
You and just about every musician out there has been desperately trying to understand what the hell he's doing on that piano for a LONG TIME... Off the charts genius - totally unique.
Gary Wittner has a great book about Thelonious Monk music in which he explains how he composed and wtf is happening.... It is a book for guitar but useful information at the end. Hope it helps
גאון!!! זכיתי לשמוע אותו בהופעה בהיכל התרבות, 1971 בהרכב שכלל את דיזי גילספי, אל מקיבון, ארט בלייקי וסוני סטיט. בשנה ההיא הייתי עדיין בשירות סדיר וביום ההופעה יצאתי מהבסיס בו שירתתי בסיני (אום חשיבה למי שעוד זוכר...) ואחרי נסיעה של 6 שעות הגעתי, בשעות אחר הצהרים, לתל אביב.
Man...that band can swing like nobody's business. Charlie Rouse flying over the top is just the greatest thing, my favorite sax player for Monks music.
@@empty_cognizance2234 Yes I forgot to mention Johnny Griffin as another great sideman/sax player. But I put Charlie up there because he also was a trusted by Monk. Driver and sideman.
@@allen6924 nah, it's cool… it's just that JG swings so hard it was worth the explicit mention 😄 I mean, pretty much anyone Monk played with is top-tier, so it's just splitting stylistic hairs really, haha… I mean, Monk and Coltrane… Monk and Coleman Hawkins was beautiful, etc etc the list goes on…
I play drums played jazz for many years ,one thing from playing with many piano players is they got great technique but they Never leave space and don't listen to bass and drums ,MONK. LEAVES. _--------- SPACE. Dances to the feel of the bass and drums
This is such a masterpiece because of what Monk does with melody,where he sounds like he's off key and that things he does doesn't fit, but not only does it fit , it's ahead our time,and TIMELESS, WORD
Monk's comp phrasing is really out, often crossing bar lines. It threw off a lot of great musicians. He was a cut above the rest. High praise for Charlie Rouse for hanging in there for so many years and melding w/ it.
CMATCT, as John McEnroe used to shout... "You cannot be serious!" Fine if you don't like jazz, tho' I'd say that's your loss, but ... "No structure, no continuity, discord and disharmony"? Dunno what to say, except perhaps please listen again. Anybody help me with band? I think the tenor player is Charlie Rouse, but don't recognise the bass player and drummer... and what a brilliant drum solo using only cymbal and snare... love it!
Amazingly, I heard Monk play live in the back room of a London pub circa 1960. No band, just Monk. The first thing he played was Blue Monk. The place was packed and went wild for his quirky music.
Honestly, I heard this music, from the day I was brought home. My father would put me to bed, and I’d think ,” what does that instrument look like,? For a white family, no one stopped us, yet, I was a percussionist from 7yrs, and guitarist fr 10 , singa, @22, my sis and I played acoustic blues,cotton picking, and artist music. My brother, took to bass, and black🇲🇱music tradition, fr NOLA originators, to Chicago blues, to country and mid-western..lol. I studied voices of the Phrasiologists💥 Well spoken music, aptly stated. No matter, where from, to notice it’s quality. 🇯🇲
Sharing this video is a public service. How Monk plays within the beat? Dude is a time lord. They're all amazing and we're lucky to be able to see and hear them. This music: timeless.
The personal should be listed. They use to do that on the old records. They'd tell who the nusicians were, what year it was recorded and where it was done. The streaming services don't fo it either.
I mean really..., how many I-VII voicings did he splash on this take? And he carried them through scale wise. It's a perfect example , and instructional video, of jazz chordal harmony. He is purposely and repeatedly playing the same changes completely different every time. It's brilliant but obvious at the same time to the trained ear and schooled musician. Gotta love it...
No doubt his music is beyond full comprehension but his contributions are real to composition, the expansion of jazz language via his less-stable chords, his off-kilter rhythmic displacements/repetitions of fragments
Just to put it all together:
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor
Ben Riley - drums
Larry Gales - bass
Live in Norway, 1966
Thank you.
Ada Bird Wolfe thanks for the list. I needed the sax player's name.
Thank you!
sax?
thank you Ada
Yes Mr. Monk was truly a genius. Yet kudos to Charlie Rouse, Larry Giles and Ben Riley. All amazing players. This is a treasure.
Without quesstion
❤ 🎉 ❤
You have to dig Ben Riley using that minimalist trap kit.
Monk has such a sarcastic and aggressiv way of playing, but in a good way. He doesn't try to avoid the conflict he is searching for it. Thats why I like his music so much. It's pure Art!
Yes it’s art .. that’s exactly what it is .. never mean just human and humorous .. sarcasm yes but that’s essential and characterful in any sane person .. pure genius artist .. 💯
Its punk
@@MrKongatthegates It's monk. ;)
so well said!!
He sounds amazing, but looks like a 5 year old smashing keys on the piano. I love him
My wife has a master's degree in piano from the Soviet Union, and she called Monk the greatest pianist in America, and that his compositions were on the highest level.
Pianist-Composers? He's definitely among them, anyway.
@S. Williams there can 100 percent be someone who is the greatest in her opinion
@S. Williams if she says that he is the greatest it's automatically personal opinion because in music it's a matter of taste.
Monk is Piano himself 😂
does your wife play with Johnathon Cohler (clarinet)?
Haha at 3:50 Monk is just genius. He absolutely does not care about the critics that call him elephant, he just does his own thing. His whole way of hitting the keys is just saying so much.
so true great observation,, hes out there ,,
Honestly it's melodic, catchy, swings...nothing lacking, just unconventionally played. I love his solo. It's fun
This is HIS thing, WORD
Think he's just showing off 😀
Waiting w bated breath for the time stamp
His way to improvise is like he was opening a matryoshka doll, like he was opening boxes to see what is it inside. So amazing and innovative!
That’s why Coltrane called him an architect of the highest order
God I love Monk. This man was a genius of epic proportions.
+markwest1987 I'm agree with you!
Absolutly true
yes
Yes
A round of applause for Larry Gales on bass!
+Lavitaoperosa i grew up with larry he would come to my house to listen to records and talk music
Very nice memory you have!
+Ronald Carrington lucky you, brother! It's so great to be mentored in the music from a young age.
Monk is Beethoven, but Gales is I don't know what, understanding exactly the incomprehensible things Monk intends.
instablaster.
The drummer is killing it
Getting a lot of sound out of only two drums.
Art Blakey
@@bethscholtz8213definitely not Blakey
Ben Riley
Monk's solo here alone is evidence enough of his raving genius. A unique crazy quirky logic, high art and it swings like there's no tomorrow.
love TM's solo, it's like he's trying to kill ants on the keyboard!
Dude stop it, I‘m dying.
Never looked at it that way before!
I love too when he stops playing to put his ring back in the right place....
Pretty accurate
funniest comment
No body understand the silence better than Thelonious Monk!
You know what … after seeing this piece, I do believe your right. He just rolls around in the silence.
Charlie Rouse. Perhaps the most under-rated sax player of all time.
Amen to thay brothha- he had stifc competition, yard bird coltrane and the guy from dizzies quintet-
The most overrated, I would say! His phrasing is stiff and below par!
Monk was a genius but he suffered very much his wife would dress him for his gigs his son said it was hard growing up when sometimes your dad does not know who you are. Very sad but what a musician
Dude plays piano like he's learning while playing. F**king Genius
I cottoned on to Monk in the late 1960's and early '70's, when all my contemporaries were already listening to rock. I took two of my friends to a concert of Monk's at Carnegie Hall (or Philharmonic Hall, I don't remember). They thought I was crazy but I was mesmerized. He has never been surpassed in my book.
Benoit Pellet did your friends get it, or they went right back to their corporate rock records?
凄いといか言いようがない尋常ならざらぬモンクの気配に圧倒されました。
本当にクール。
永久保存版の演奏だと思います。
It's what a piano playing friend of mine said in high school (1978) " Monk doesn't play a lot of notes, but he makes every one count".
If from UF all of the above
appreciate it big dawg
Bwaaaaah! he crax me up! I studied his technique and voicing . When I listen today , I mean REALLY listen I DO hear the "outside" intervals he uses in his comping. In his second solo he is only changing the top note of the interval , then he does the same interval but moving up or down by whole or half steps. I love the point where he feels the need to leave his own rhythm section. Then listen to the bass, the only shred of harmony available , step in cause he has no other choice until Monk comes back from outer space. God bless our Monk.
they already knew about that 10 minutes ad revenue money
lololol o el
really amazing how they return to the head after the drum solo. perfect timing.
Duh😩as expected if following the rhythm of the song's pattern
I feel like only someone as mad and as ingenious as Monk could possibly understand this music on a deep level. He'll just do these strange little repetitive things with exotic chords, and it makes me wonder what's going through his head. I think he heard music in a profoundly different way than everybody else.
well said, sir...
That's very true, he's in a world in his own. Apparently he was even too much for miles.
Hexatonic I mean where he just keeps playing the same right hand chord as an upper structure over seven or eight chords in his left hand. He just keeps harping on it, and somehow it reaches this weird catharsis.
He would keep going around like a complete idiot but his brilliant mind was just working constantly
George Parkins
I'm not a big jazz fan but for some reason I like watching and hearing Monk. Don't know why.
We don't care whether you are or aren't a jazz fan.
+ALLCAPSARCHER09 ur an ass
At this moment 5 people care that you don't care, 29 people did care that he isn't a jazz fan.
Simple answer...He's genious...
Nobody does.
Melhor versão de Blue Monk,que já alguma vez ouvi !!! Monk,fantástico!!!
Gets better every time I hear it!
Best comment below: "He plays the piano like it's a percussion instrument". Love it!
I feel he seldom actually plays the tune itself, he makes you play it in your own mind.
You know, at certain times in both Monk's comping and his solos, I can hear a kind of pre hip hop. And I also thought that part of what made Charlie Rouse an ideal "foil" for Monk's compositions was that Rouse struck me as more of a R&B player who nevertheless knew jazz "language" and could therefore solo effectively. Especially as regards Thelonious' musical universe.
Creativity has no bounds. Genius !
Immortal music from immortal musicians ......
This is utterly beautiful. Sweet medicine for the soul. :)
No clue what cosmic wormhole brought me here, but that video is just a hell of a ride.
In a world of musicians to be absolutely unique speaks volumes for Monk's talent. Here he is both asymetrical and abstract in soloing and yet he quotes C Jam Blues. A very fine player and composer indeed. Thank for the clip.
I feel so sad for the folks who gave this a thumbs down...obviously no sense of invention, intellectual history, culture, and an understanding of the international bond that jazz creates.
some people just dont like jazz, not their fault :)
AliIKarimi ha ha, I don't like hip hop but I wouldn't give it a thumbs down. Respect.....
You can never go wrong in this country betting on the lowest common denominator in taste. This, overall, is a Philistine country and proud of it's overarching ignorance. Obviously, there are many millions not like this. But, unfortunately, there are many, many millions more who are. And I"m not just talking about whether or not you dig Jazz or not.
Daniel Martine truth be told, i love monk, i love jazz. but id also argue jazz is dead, and its inability to reach the lowest common denominator is part of the problem. its not the country's problem.
AliIKarimi I do not disagree. Most jazz has become pop music. Technically perfect but lacking the guts of creativity.
that bass solo was very refreshing!
The way he plays the piano it's like the moment before the mind and ears realize something not right and ar the edge of that moment he sneaks the sound end. Brilliant!
He plays like killing bugs wandering over the keybed, damn he swings!
Got a jazz band audition playing this song in a couple days, and I'm desperately trying to understand what the hell he's doing on that piano
Hope your audition went swimmingly!
You and just about every musician out there has been desperately trying to understand what the hell he's doing on that piano for a LONG TIME... Off the charts genius - totally unique.
Gary Wittner has a great book about Thelonious Monk music in which he explains how he composed and wtf is happening.... It is a book for guitar but useful information at the end.
Hope it helps
hes a great pianist. Dont be put off by his old man typing.
My nigga im in the same boat
Larry Gales!!! Oh my God. RIP bro!
Drummer solos on a 3-piece set better than modern day drummers with double pedals and 17 piece sets!!
Sultan A so true - 2-piece set actually but your point is right-on
Very very impressive.
This is a fundamentals masterclass, and also a solid answer to 'I need more gear that won't fit in the van'.
and he's not ripping the whole song apart. i can hear the melody while his solo.
I love how Thelonius Monk immediately stands up after his solo.
גאון!!!
זכיתי לשמוע אותו בהופעה בהיכל התרבות, 1971 בהרכב שכלל את דיזי גילספי, אל מקיבון, ארט בלייקי וסוני סטיט. בשנה ההיא הייתי עדיין בשירות סדיר וביום ההופעה יצאתי מהבסיס בו שירתתי בסיני (אום חשיבה למי שעוד זוכר...) ואחרי נסיעה של 6 שעות הגעתי, בשעות אחר הצהרים, לתל אביב.
Man;... the Monk was somethin else. GREAT musician and improvisor..in his own world while playing..you just had to enter it..what a gas !!!
Genius. I keep coming back to this . Not just the composition or the execution. The synergy of the foursome. Mozart and his bluenotes.
To me it's more of the "Swing era" than "Be Bop" that's is the fascination, a mixture of the familiar and the outrageous.....
"They call a man a genius just for being himself." - T. Monk
The great thing is that,no matter what Monk does with it,it is still the blues!That knowledge is really the heartbeat of his greatness.
Man...that band can swing like nobody's business. Charlie Rouse flying over the top is just the greatest thing, my favorite sax player for Monks music.
Monk and Johnny Griffin too though 🤌
@@empty_cognizance2234 Yes I forgot to mention Johnny Griffin as another great sideman/sax player. But I put Charlie up there because he also was a trusted by Monk. Driver and sideman.
@@allen6924 nah, it's cool… it's just that JG swings so hard it was worth the explicit mention 😄 I mean, pretty much anyone Monk played with is top-tier, so it's just splitting stylistic hairs really, haha… I mean, Monk and Coltrane… Monk and Coleman Hawkins was beautiful, etc etc the list goes on…
One of the BEST Groups of Alltime!!
+FRED HUBBARD Never been a Rouse fan, though.
+Bernabé Fernández Touceda I heard Charlie Rouse is a huge fan of YOURS, nevertheless.
+Bernabé Fernández Touceda They are currently hiring at ISIL. Do you want me to send you an application form?
Ed Boersema yeah that would be cool
Charlie Rouse what a wonderful sax player.
I cry with delight.
I play drums played jazz for many years ,one thing from playing with many piano players is they got great technique but they Never leave space and don't listen to bass and drums ,MONK. LEAVES. _--------- SPACE. Dances to the feel of the bass and drums
This is such a masterpiece because of what Monk does with melody,where he sounds like he's off key and that things he does doesn't fit, but not only does it fit , it's ahead our time,and TIMELESS, WORD
Monk's comp phrasing is really out, often crossing bar lines. It threw off a lot of great musicians. He was a cut above the rest. High praise for Charlie Rouse for hanging in there for so many years and melding w/ it.
That’s why there’s bass and drums. They keep the time. Except when they solo and then nobody know where one is.
I've always loved this tune. Now I have finally learned the name of it, and who wrote it.
The monk, the sax, the base guitar and the drums? Blue Monk bliss 🎉
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor
Ben Riley - drums
Larry Gales - bass
Live in Norway, 1966
You better watch out,
Better not cry,
Santa Claus is comin' to town . . .
TCTSNBN hahahahaha that’s all I can here now
Yes, of course, clever! Like Miles turning 'Sweet Georgia Brown' into 'Dig'!
Genius
Indeed@@marcoloiodice4300
This is what I heard.
Cruella De Vil
Cruella De Vil
If she doesn't scare you
No evil thing will
Love how Monk stands up half way through
CMATCT, as John McEnroe used to shout... "You cannot be serious!" Fine if you don't like jazz, tho' I'd say that's your loss, but ... "No structure, no continuity, discord and disharmony"? Dunno what to say, except perhaps please listen again. Anybody help me with band? I think the tenor player is Charlie Rouse, but don't recognise the bass player and drummer... and what a brilliant drum solo using only cymbal and snare... love it!
yes
@ Pete, Charlie Rouse (ts), Larry Gales (b), Ben Riley (d) and of course Thelonious Monk (p). Recorded on April 15, 1966 in Oslo.
Pete Grainger dont worry brother just a troll stay righteous jazz brother and be one with the jazz xo
i have to play this in all district jazz, im exited :)
Monk has a lot of "C Jam Blues" in his solo. Love it. Cooler than cool.
SO GOOD I LITERALLY DRIFTED Off an afternoon siesta coz of how soothing it is. Had me swaying and everything damn love it
Heard a story where a reporter asked him, "How's it feel to be famous?" and he responded with, "im famous? Well I'll be a som' bitch." LOL!
Monk n'est pas un pianiste mais un batteur avec 10 baguettes,un style unique.
The drummer is great.
Yeah, he makes forgot that he uses a minimalist drum set, only a ride cymbal, no toms, and his solo is interesting
Amazingly, I heard Monk play live in the back room of a London pub circa 1960. No band, just Monk. The first thing he played was Blue Monk. The place was packed and went wild for his quirky music.
One of the greatest jazz standard of all time
Charlie Rouse was great on Monk tunes. Just sounds right.
Honestly, I heard this music, from the day I was brought home. My father would put me to bed, and I’d think ,” what does that instrument look like,? For a white family, no one stopped us, yet, I was a percussionist from 7yrs, and guitarist fr 10 , singa, @22, my sis and I played acoustic blues,cotton picking, and artist music.
My brother, took to bass, and black🇲🇱music tradition, fr NOLA originators, to Chicago blues, to country and mid-western..lol.
I studied voices of the Phrasiologists💥 Well spoken music, aptly stated. No matter, where from, to notice it’s quality. 🇯🇲
There will ever be only one Thelonius Monk , as a mathematician his divisions are out of this world !
Sharing this video is a public service. How Monk plays within the beat? Dude is a time lord. They're all amazing and we're lucky to be able to see and hear them. This music: timeless.
Monk makes me smile...genius.
It's time for Street Theater! This is the song they always play before the show starts.
Wow ,wow wow. Gran ingenio musical.... Por eso creció tanto Jhon Coltrane con Monk!!??
The personal should be listed. They use to do that on the old records. They'd tell who the nusicians were, what year it was recorded and where it was done. The streaming services don't fo it either.
I mean really..., how many I-VII voicings did he splash on this take? And he carried them through scale wise. It's a perfect example , and instructional video, of jazz chordal harmony. He is purposely and repeatedly playing the same changes completely different every time. It's brilliant but obvious at the same time to the trained ear and schooled musician. Gotta love it...
There’s a style of hammering the notes like a 3 year old...still fits. Classic I-don’t-give-a-crap.
This brings me back! OH MY GAWD, THEM MEMORIES!!! T__T
You weren't alive back when this was made.
I used to listen to this when I was a kid. This made up my childhood growing up as a musician
Great Jazz ♥️🎸🎹🎺🎷
EXCELLENCE!
Music will never be the same again...He expected everyone to be great.. Everything in their right place and position..
No other jazz number gets to me like this one
Alguien de habla hispana en 2022?
I am relatively new to Jazz. But this Man is a raving Genius. I love Monk. And that Bass ! And the Tenor Sax.. Wow.
Be grateful that you came to Monk early in your listening.....it took a long time for me
I have fallen in love with Thelonius!!!!
One of the first songs I played on my trumpet in a bigband all the way back in 1996.
So much content in the playing of all these musicians. Not flash, but content.
Love Monk. He proves that if you believe goofing around can produce art, your goofing around can produce art.
merci pour cette vidéo anthologique !
No doubt his music is beyond full comprehension but his contributions are real to composition, the expansion of jazz language via his less-stable chords, his off-kilter rhythmic displacements/repetitions of fragments
Highly recommended: Sun Ra's 'Nebulae'.
Monk, Red Garland, Bud Powell, my favourites
All good and in particular a great sax solo.
Sublime! Beauty! Genius
monk is a drummer that's the secret
Still Fresh, Fresh forever
C trop bien oe !!!!
learning this in school. super easy and fun to improvise with
Today marks the anniversary of this great man's departure from this world. Rest in peace Mr. Monk.
such a cool tune
Of course one of the best of the maestro...;