I want to personally thank you for preserving this great record and testament to Thelonious Monk’s profound musicianship. I hope you know this very clip means a great deal to many students of this music. Aaron Parks brought me here. Wishing you well ❤
Incredible! And hearing the difference between his playing on stage and what a couple of his many practice sessions at the piano could have sounded like! How he thoughtfully refined his technique to get to a place where his improvisation could flow on stage with spontaneity. Are there more home recordings of monk cooking up music in his kitchen?
Sounds to me more like he's making his arrangement than trying to improvise; he would have been able to blow on this tune long before these recordings were made.
That's right. Saying he's 'learning improvisation' is completely wrong and misleading. It's amazing how little people grasp about music! Here, he works up a presentation of the tune. He encounters a 'fill' spot on a V7 chord and goes on an excursion of conception and fingering, which is why it's good to prepare a piece in detail - it gets you working on things you might not come upon otherwise, and therefore assists musical growth in general.
A wonderful reminder that that the practicing process is often closer to brainstorming than performing.
I want to personally thank you for preserving this great record and testament to Thelonious Monk’s profound musicianship. I hope you know this very clip means a great deal to many students of this music. Aaron Parks brought me here. Wishing you well ❤
Incredible! And hearing the difference between his playing on stage and what a couple of his many practice sessions at the piano could have sounded like! How he thoughtfully refined his technique to get to a place where his improvisation could flow on stage with spontaneity. Are there more home recordings of monk cooking up music in his kitchen?
Sounds to me more like he's making his arrangement than trying to improvise; he would have been able to blow on this tune long before these recordings were made.
That's right. Saying he's 'learning improvisation' is completely wrong and misleading. It's amazing how little people grasp about music! Here, he works up a presentation of the tune. He encounters a 'fill' spot on a V7 chord and goes on an excursion of conception and fingering, which is why it's good to prepare a piece in detail - it gets you working on things you might not come upon otherwise, and therefore assists musical growth in general.
very precious material
Wow!
I love this!!! Thank you so much !!!!
oh my!
Beautiful....