The most original jazz pianist I have ever heard and listened to, Monk. I was taught that piano is a medic instrument but after l had listened to Monk my thoughts and I agreed with one my teachers that it is a percussion instrument. Yes it is and, monk was write to play jumps or skips, like African drums, on it. Thanks.
Monk's playing and compositions had a great influence on shaping my musical life. Thank you Thelonious Monk. Side note. There is a train car on NY metro north that is named Thelonious Monk, and it's painted right on the side. It brings a smile to my face and brightens up my day every time I see it go by.😊 Thanks for the video.
The best documentary I’ve seen on Thelonious Monk. I fell in love with his music when I was 17. Someone made me a fake id so I could get into the Village Vanguard where he played so many times in the late 1960’s. Transcendent, funny, sublime. I was studying art and he seemed / felt like a musical ‘kin’ to the artist, Paul Klee. ( Ben Riley on drums, Larry Gales on bass and Charlie Rouse on sax.)
Only Monk can be "cool" wearing dark shades in a totally dark night club! I saw him once at The Blue Note club in the early 70's, and was mesmerized watching him dance (literally around the piano). He was truly a GENIUS! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Can you imagine The session of Thelonious Monk playing with Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Roy Haynes on one stage? He also had sessions with Coltrane and Miles Davis. The man who ushered in Bebob!
My dad had a few albums, including Monk and Coltrane. I was never aware of him listening to thkse records. But I did. I am so glad that I got into him at at a young age. This was one of those wordless, completely unspoken gifts.
His message to the world was played in the language of his music. When I listen to him, he's telling his story that cannot be conveyed in words but nevertheless can be understood at a deeper level.
Rather than the usual tripe that is abundant everywhere in all media, this is a great use of You-tube. Nothing less than a lucid documentation of miracles and miraculous people working together, rich with eye-witness observations, and film footage that leaves one longing for more. What an extraordinary time and dynamic. What music.
One time, at The Jazz Workshop, Monk didn’t appear for the second set. After about a half hour, someone asked “The Baroness” to walk around North Beach to try to find him. She returned with Monk in tow. Turns out he forgot he had a second set. He was nearby enjoying an ice cream sundae.
Thelonious...you either git him or you just don't. I do, my mother just doesn't. Two caveats to that statement: she is NOT into instrumental music IN GENERAL (she no more cares for The Ventures or Herb Alpert, for example, than she would for Monk, Miles, Trane, Bird, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Vince Guaraldi, etc. -- she MUCH prefers good singers, good singing and good songs); and we tend to agree more than we don't on what good singers, good singing and good songs are. It's just that I appreciate music minus vocals/words on its own merit...and I, unlike some people who even like jazz, got Monk almost right away and have liked him ever since.
10:48 -- And now you know what Monk's mother had in common with (at least) Michael Jackson's, Van Morrison's, Roy Harper's, [rock critic] Lester Bangs' and Venus & Serena Williams's mothers. Some responded positively to that background/childhood; others did not.
The most original jazz pianist I have ever heard and listened to, Monk. I was taught that piano is a medic instrument but after l had listened to Monk my thoughts and I agreed with one my teachers that it is a percussion instrument. Yes it is and, monk was write to play jumps or skips, like African drums, on it. Thanks.
This was a heartfelt tribute to one of the great composers of music and greatest musicians in application.
Monk's playing and compositions had a great influence on shaping my musical life. Thank you Thelonious Monk. Side note. There is a train car on NY metro north that is named Thelonious Monk, and it's painted right on the side. It brings a smile to my face and brightens up my day every time I see it go by.😊 Thanks for the video.
The best documentary I’ve seen on Thelonious Monk. I fell in love with his music when I was 17. Someone made me a fake id so I could get into the Village Vanguard where he played so many times in the late 1960’s. Transcendent, funny, sublime. I was studying art and he seemed / felt like a musical ‘kin’ to the artist, Paul Klee. ( Ben Riley on drums, Larry Gales on bass and Charlie Rouse on sax.)
Only Monk can be "cool" wearing dark shades in a totally dark night club! I saw him once at The Blue Note club in the early 70's, and was mesmerized watching him dance (literally around the piano). He was truly a GENIUS! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
how could you see at the blue note in the early 70s when the blue note didn't open until 1981..? that's what i thought.
I am from 118th street in Harlem , New York - And I feel the vibes from MINTON'S every day , Joe Nania
my favorite jazz musician and one of my 3 all time favorite musicians. I've broken down Monk songs on TH-cam. I love him!!
Yes you have ❤️
@@metaviewx2091 Just recently I had published on an audiophile site an article reviewing Monk's albums. Will provide link if you are interested.
Can you imagine The session of Thelonious Monk playing with Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Roy Haynes on one stage? He also had sessions with Coltrane and Miles Davis. The man who ushered in Bebob!
My dad had a few albums, including Monk and Coltrane. I was never aware of him listening to thkse records. But I did. I am so glad that I got into him at at a young age. This was one of those wordless, completely unspoken gifts.
A real genius created a language of his own.
Superior on Monk. I want to understand!
His message to the world was played in the language of his music. When I listen to him, he's telling his story that cannot be conveyed in words but nevertheless can be understood at a deeper level.
Rather than the usual tripe that is abundant everywhere in all media, this is a great use of You-tube. Nothing less than a lucid documentation of miracles and miraculous people working together, rich with eye-witness observations, and film footage that leaves one longing for more. What an extraordinary time and dynamic. What music.
An incredibly beautiful and instructive documentary on this Giant of Modern Music.
I have the double cd, Theolonius Monk Live at "The It Club"... Recorded in Los Angeles. 😂 🎉 Recorded, November 1, 1964...
Golden era, yes, postwar, 40s-50s, mostly, before my time, but we have those great records, films, and testimonials of contemporaries. Thanks, poster!
Genius after hours I was fortunate to see him work out - and I became close friends with Charlie Rouse.
Way ahead of his time.
One time, at The Jazz Workshop, Monk didn’t appear for the second set. After about a half hour, someone asked “The Baroness” to walk around North Beach to try to find him.
She returned with Monk in tow. Turns out he forgot he had a second set. He was nearby enjoying an ice cream sundae.
Nica fabulous !
Thelonious Monk is on time and is a great manipulator of time and dynamics
For some reason, monk always makes me laugh, i think he's funny, i don't understand why
Attention! Ge'nie! No other words can be used with Thelonius since 1930! Master of Inusual Harmony for the Happy few listening carefully!
Enorme Thelonious!
Su Maestro Art Tatum(nunca lo fue pero Monk le debe mucho) debió de estar orgulloso de él.
The Great!!!
Grande musician!
Thelonious...you either git him or you just don't. I do, my mother just doesn't. Two caveats to that statement: she is NOT into instrumental music IN GENERAL (she no more cares for The Ventures or Herb Alpert, for example, than she would for Monk, Miles, Trane, Bird, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Vince Guaraldi, etc. -- she MUCH prefers good singers, good singing and good songs); and we tend to agree more than we don't on what good singers, good singing and good songs are. It's just that I appreciate music minus vocals/words on its own merit...and I, unlike some people who even like jazz, got Monk almost right away and have liked him ever since.
10:48 -- And now you know what Monk's mother had in common with (at least) Michael Jackson's, Van Morrison's, Roy Harper's, [rock critic] Lester Bangs' and Venus & Serena Williams's mothers. Some responded positively to that background/childhood; others did not.
Who is the drummer at about 38:18?
Ben Riley, my dad!
Monk,s creativity makes the Beatles etc efforts like growing fungi in a plastic bag.
🤣 😂😂😂