Thelonious Monk plays with Duke Ellington Orchestra
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- Everything may happen in Jazz music! What's strange is having
Thelonious Monk playing with Duke Ellington's Orchestra which makes an
unique situation. In 1962 The Duke left both his piano and his
Orchestra in Monk's hands. Monk's genius produced two brilliant pieces
of music called Monk's Dream and Ba Lue Bolivar Ba Lues Are
It happened at Newport Festival, Freebody Park, July 8, 1962 and broadcasted by V.O.A.
![Duke Ellington piano solo [Rarest of the rare recordings!]](/img/n.gif)
Monk loved Duke. SunRa and Monk and "Fatha" Hines made me re evaluate Duke's solo piano playing and small group work. Life is not long enough to listen to enough Duke enough times .
Wow...Just WOW...When Giants Walked The Earth
It is like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls, or an unopened Egyptian tomb.
Similar to other comments, I was never aware this recording. Well done.
Peace to all.
It is just like yesterday. Our art and future generation to listen to our great American musicians. Thanks.
A friend who in the 60s was about 13 years old, personally met Thelonious in Brazil. Thelonoius stayed at the house of some Brazilian friends, my friend remembers that he was impressed with his concentration and his facial expressions and when he finished playing he just kept quiet.
There is an interview with his son who says” I sometimes wish my dad sounded like all the other jazz guys!”- not at this gig. So great. The two giants of compositional American classical music. Ty!
Like Ellington, Monk was a stride pianist who left out the superfluous notes (and had a gift for composition).
Two departed greats .RIP
It's like find a treasure with gold & diamonds!!!
Great Great Musical Moment. Historical
Thanks so much for posting this recording of a rare and special event. It is of interest to me that, as in many of my favourite Ellington numbers, the arrangements of Monks tunes are credited by Duke to Billy Strayhorn.
Two great giants
Magnificent !! Those two had really a lot in common, especially in terms of sound and dynamics. It is incredible such an event has not been quoted more often, for my part I was truly unaware of this !
never heard this before Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this. An unknown gem. Bravo.
Incredible document !!
A treasure
Wow! Thanks for this. Had no idea. It would be so awesome if someone would master the set and release it.
Oh yeah !
How cool! I didn't know that this existed!
the ultimate jazz wet dream
wow!
This is fitting. For his generation, Duke was the 'sparse' piano player.
Aaron Bell on bass.
he sounds so good here
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In a very important way, kinda like a musical father and son
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Could this be Duke making a Monk impression?
Was this recording falling down from heaven just recently? Or did this really happend on planet earth?
It happened at Newport Festival, Freebody Park, July 8, 1962 !!
Ok, thanks... was just hoping more stuff will fall down one day! Great post.
Sure, a good deal of Monk's piano style can be traced to Duke, especially the solo on 1940's "Sepia Panorama".
What song is Frere Monk? An original for this date and never played again? Don't recognize it, although he slips in some of his original Blue Note Misterioso solo at 8:47
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Amazing. Never knew they collaborated like this before. In some ways, Monk and Duke had a similar minimalist approach to harmonies and playing. I bet Duke was controlling the band tightly during these tunes.
Imagine the intellect Duke must have had that he could collaborate with talents as diverse Monk & Coltrane whose music was so different than his own.
I'm surprised at how similar Ellington and Monk sound at times.
@@fourmilemusicllcoflouisbur1020 I know that Monk cites Ellington as one of his inspirations but I couldn`t hear it. Could you suggest some pieces ? I`m only familiar with Monk in the trio & quartet settings . Thanks in advance.
@@williamjackson6705 check out Monk plays Ellington, and Ellington’s Piano Reflections, then some solo Monk. Imagine a tune like Pannonica being written without Prelude to a Kiss or Sophisticated Lady
@@paulsikivie Thanks, I`ll look those up.
@@williamjackson6705 my pleasure, hope you enjoy! I hear the link in the percussive touch and the sonorities.
6:39--6:52....lol
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Any officially recorded/published version?
Never ever published. This piece of music was broadcasted
I never knew that they played together. Excellent combination of musicians of different styles.
@@charlesbarry6730 There's a studio recording of this without Monk done on 9/13/62.
"THELONIOUS MONK - UNISSUED LIVE AT NEWPORT" Gambitt Records. Unfortunately, sound is awful, just as in this video
5/19/2018
"Frere Monk" is very close to "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues Are."
No Monk just played ‘Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues Are’ against Strayhorn’s tune ‘Frére Monk’ played by Ellington’s band. There is a recording of ‘Frere Monk’ by Ellingtnon’s band sans Monk with no reference to Bolivar. Check it out!
Duke warned Monk that the worst thing his generation could've done was to allow a name (be-bop) to be assigned to what they were doing. This was simply because he knew from experience that the people who controlled the music would put it into a box and run it into the ground, which is precisely what they did. There are only a handful of Black jazz musicians left and that is by design.
Ironically, the early adherents to this style stated that they wanted to create a genre so complicated that it would be difficult to imitate, to avoid the co-optation of "swing" music in the 30's
@@lawrenceswhite As Jessie Jackson used to say, "We are only useful as long as we are necessary." It isn't irony. It was by design and part of the cultural product of every generation of Black artists since emancipation. That is, until hip hop. Like I used to tell my students, if your little brother or sister can do it, that ain't fire. That's dragon breath!
This is running a bit sharp, but no matter
Ma e' tutto vero??????
Stento a crederci.
Jazz is the only truly indigenous American art form. Jazz origins have absolutely no connection to Europe or any place other than its birth place in New Orleans LA and then grew up to maturity in cities like Chicago and NYC as it followed its African American creators like Louis Armstrong and his mentor Joe Oliver to cities like Chicago as they escaped the brutality and lynchings of the JIM Crow south. ( read “ Newyork times best seller “ The warmth of other suns ) by author Isabell Wilkerson. Of coarse Duke Ellington and Thelonius Monk have a connection. Both men are the most prolific American Jazz composers in history. Both men along with Louis Armstrong with in there respective time frames are largely but certainly not solely responsible for its creation. In the 10 part award winning Documentary “JAzz “ by Ken Burns I finally figured out how Ken Burn wove a 10-15 hour documentary on the history of Jazz together with dozens upon dozen of contributors to the idiom over a 70 year period. Essentially starting in episode #2 he introduced the life story of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and then intermittently for the remaining 14 hours of content interspersed and wove every other artist and contributor around one consistent them; that being the life and music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington; every thing els in the creation of Jazz was relative to Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. In close proximity to Duke and Mr Armstrong as far as shaping and defining the art of Jazz was Monk, Miles, Charlie Parker. The Documentary does not try to say that these are the only ones that mattered, but my observation after watching the Jazz Documentary many times, Was out of the 15 hours of content, Louis Armstrong and Duke take up 85% of content in the documentary, everthing els revolves around Loius Armstrong and Duke Ellington’s contribution to America’s truly only indigenous art form. Miles, Parker, Monk about 4-5 hours intermittently and all els revolves around that orbit.
Thank you very much for your comment which I have enjoyed with great pleasure, Mr. Michael Fox.
So the idea is that blues, gospel, and ragtime are not art forms? Sorry, but that is not only untrue but, in the view of many African American musicians, offensive. And modern dance is not an "art form"? I have heard this "only American art form" argument for over 50 years and it was tired the first time I heard it. Also, the Burns documentary is mostly fluff - the fact that he represented Armstrong and Ellington SO heavily was a weakness, not a strength. The guy knows nothing about jazz and it shows.
@@skiddoo-fr9ex When speaking about the American art form called Jazz Blues is its fraternal twin. Both born of the same mother and father ( the African American community ) look no feather than the music of Americans Jazz giants like Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, and Miles Davis all seamlessly wove together the fraternal twins of Jazz and Blues together one music on set of parents. ( See Mies Davis ) Biggest selling Jazz album of all time “ALL BLUES”
"...defining the art of Jazz was Monk, Miles, Charlie Parker..." Not the overrated Miles, but Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh!
Monk is an acquired taste.
If Duke acquired it, it might be worth your attempting to do so. :-)
I did around 1965
I was there when captain beefheart made his first band
I, for one, have long since acquired such taste.
I understand what you mean Darrell Jones. Monk was an acquired taste for most of America and even most of the jazz world. Ofcourse everyone is going to say NOW that the only hip course of action is to dig Monk. But most did not get Monk at first including the jazz world. Because he obviously was not classically trained (ie European classical) and he almost never plays what you expect. No worries pal you really aren't alone in that opinion.
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