Blimey, I just had the same thought a few moments before reading your comment. This SOUND produced by kooky Monk-piano contrasting to clear chord-tone lines on sax by Charlie and such a laid back and consistent rhythm section was just a timeless one I'm so thankful for!!!
Hei 82-vuotias ! Minä olen vasta 67½-vuotias ja tämä musiikki toimii täällä Joulupukinmaassakin ! Suomi. Monk, Mingus, Parker, Zappa... parhainta vointia ja jatkoa täältä JouluPukinmaasta ( SantaClaus Land - Finland ) ... Genelec SubBass waves the...
Genius PURE GENIUS! Monk's music is Van Gogh for the ears. While even the best of hard boppers are doing Algebra, Monk is doing Calculus with Fractals. He is (was) so far advanced in his harmonic sense that I'm not sure we've caught up yet or if we ever will. And don't get me started about his swing !
Boys, if there was ever an underrated tenor sax man, it was Charlie Rouse. He really sublimated his own career to help Monk. We need a documentary on him.🎉
Once again, Europe provides visual as well as audio documentation of great American artists who were not sufficiently appreciated by the art institutions that controlled the airwaves in the land where they were born.
I'm 85 years old, live in New Delhi, India and have been a jazz fan through the music's Avatars from Joplin to the present day since I was 11. I'm not a musician and loathed Mr. Monk's music when I first heard it. I was aware of the disrespect with which he was treated by fellow musicians (who believed he was "out of tune"). Yet, today, a non-musician like myself, has grown to love his music. That's the measure of the man who was so far ahead of his time that lesser mortals like us couldn't give him the respect and honour he deserved. A genius pays the price of living and walking among mere mortals. R.I.P. Bro and forgive us our trespasses😢
some things grow BETTER with time! like US humans-with-a-still-intact-SOUL. (i'm 78 - conga/Latin drummer - piano was WAY too hard for me - i quit it at 13 - the endless classical recitals became a fright) no need to ask for forgiveness! it just TOOK you a while to find the MAGIC that he knew and shared from the start! better late than never. keep EnJOYing the magic - it's everywhere on TH-cam -- the BEST purchase/acquision that Google ever made! i'd say. WHAT a benefit to us all -- creators and consumers and info-seakers! World-Wide
From day one this has always been my favourite, of Monk or anyone else, and I hear it in my head constantly. Yes its amazing how out on his own he was at one time
This is from the same European tour that Clint Eastwood made the centerpiece of his Monk documentary, "Straight, No Chaser", and that's my seventh and eighth grade music teacher, Ben Riley, on drums.
@@englishguy9680 Those of us who were into jazz were in awe of Ben (never "Mr. Riley", unless some big shots came around). He was the coolest teacher, ever.
Me pasa y más con el solo del piano , veo que el man exploro ese piano y quiso tocarlo así para sacar algo raro , divertido y genial , saludos desde colombia 👍🏿
I dont know the way it begins sounds a bit like "you better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why" - Santa Claus is coming to town What do you think?
It’s called the right notes at the right pace. The slight discord is planned and wonderful. Genius is not doing the expected; it’s reimagining what can be. Love me some Monk. Coolest cats in town
The close ups of Monk’s hands as he plays his iconic riffs are very interesting. They show his unique stiff fingering technique and his overhand playing. It’s very different from the technique of most pianists.
Monk inspires every jazz player to explore what is possible and what kind of sounds you could give a chance even though they aren't what people expect to hear necessarily. His influence and impact can't be understated
Not every jazz player. Academic musicians are often conservative players who ridicule any attempt at something new. As a performing jazz musician I’ve come across that attitude frequently. Monk was the opposite of that.
@@LeafGreen906 that’s not piano fingering. It’s not piano playing. He had no concept of piano sensitivity and melodic/ harmony voicings. He was rediculous. People calling this guy a genius is nonsense. Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Chic Corea, Herbie Hancock and others are the geniuses.
@@gregghatten1611 jazz legends including the ones you mentioned certainly recognized monk as a genius, do you know better than them? i get monk isnt everyones cup of tea but making statements like that is quite arrogant. Monk learned classical piano when he was younger but intentionally developed his own style of playing, that much is documented. Behind the discordant notes and angular melodies theres an incredibly sophisticated sense of motivic development, not to mention swing, groove and the amount of jazz standards he composed. Besides, if you listen to early bebop, stride or boogie Monk isn't that far away.
@@gregghatten1611i know nothing about piano but i can tell you that he clearly had a fantastic sense of melody and rhythm. he very clearly applied that in this video,
My dad saw him play in the e late ‘50s. Monk actually came out into the audience to dance and my dad said that was worried that Monk wouldn’t make it back to the piano in time. He did of course. 😂
I was speaking to a pro sax player a few years a back and was pleased to hear him say he thought Charlie is underrated. He and Monk certainly had an amazing connection. I like the Mulligan recordings with Monk but they still don’t have this same feeling and Charlie and Monk
@@englishguy9680 That’s interesting. He played on the very first Monk record I ever bought and I have admired his playing ever since. He and Monk just seemed to have a special rapport.
Monk always intrigued me, like when you see videos of him playing, his form is so strange and stiff, and when you see it without audio, it looks like it would sound bad, but then you actually hear it and it’s like the greatest thing you’ve ever heard. I also love how his face looks during his solo, you can like see the gears turning, constantly coming up with the next 10 phrases he’s going to play, it’s amazing.
Like there are jazz artists I like more than Monk, not very many, but a few, but Monk feels like the epitome of what jazz is, breaking the rules in all the right ways.
Shinx you got it. There are on the spot calculations going on in his noggin. He was cross checking his aural math in real time then letting us benefit from the gears. You know how the math teacher always says "Show your work" Well his work was this superior harmony.
I am 35. First Time earing the music of Thelonius. Just by the way he start, the posture, the hands movements, the playing with the piano, the waiting to the saxo, just that Is genius. Fantastic ❤
I distantly recall my introduction to this song, within the last few months or so, being people making fun of the piano solo here; not sure if it's for the technique or for the sound of it. Either way, rather ridiculous to mock it; the look of playing piano shouldn't matter as long as the piano's being played, and considering how many of the notes being played so cleverly miss being discordant by inches, I'd say the piano's being played _damn_ well.
@ mochalait199 You can see he is calculating the harmonies. He is trying to see how far he can go from the original chart. This solo is pure genius. Monk is Van Gogh for the ears man.
EXACTLY - an 88 key drum! he plays the piano keys like an African drummer plays their skin drums. i know this because i drummed for 10 ten years with many West African touring companies that passed through Cleveland OH. i know his HAARMONIES are amazing. but it's his RHYTHM that always nails me! what a wonderful artist! and AGAIN -- thank the universe for AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING and for SHARING-SERVICES like TH-cam! why not PLAY-ALONG with this great (and other) music! get a VERSATILE Latin Percussion Aspire 11 inch conga drum to play -- and you will be happy forever! during my ten years with the West Africans - i NEVER heard a negative or a cross word from ANY of these world-class drummers! drumming is HEALING. and FUN. and ENJOYABLE. just like this magically-percussive music from Thelonious!
Hell - o ,yeah ! Monk we must know is most modernistic musicians giants next to the Most Improvisational God Almighty governing consciousness soulselves with subtleties of energies melodies , rhythms n harmories patterns ; we all are unique individuals perceptional n creatively godly spirits ,some cultural learned behaviorism personalities of chakras centers vibratory equilibrium along the spinal cord, blocked chakras n opened senting n receiving messages wwide .
I totally dig this, and I always have. I still play it and sometimes roll off into it from something else that fits, finally returning to whatever it was I was playing before. This riff is like the seasoning on the steak, the olive in the Martini, the smile on the dancing girl, the daisy in the park... You get it man?
If Mr. Monk and Mr. Young were still around, they could play any of my trumpets or guitars they wanted to. However, am impressed the way you care about with your LOVE for your exquisite piano. Am sure your piano and you sound astounding. MUSIC
I learned about this song when I googled top 10 jazz songs that are easy to learn for guitar. I'm making my way through it, but I got to give a shout out to that outstanding bass solo.
Ben Riley, with the most simple drumkit you can imagine, makes more music with this equipment than many drummers with big drumkits (floortoms, lots of cymals etc. etc.): genius.
so early video recording...people had taste then...recognized how good, musically important the moments were...not everybody...and yet we get to see bits of important times in some peoples' of then...how important they were...and are and can be for us...now...that's a wow. Thanx to engineers everywhere at all times...!
My high school jazz band teacher Sid Lasaine 1985 had us play this to warm up but never gave us the name. Weird coming across it years later on TH-cam.
First heard him back in the day in the 70s when I worked across the street from WJZZ in Detroit on the Boulevard. My boss would say "What are you listening to?" I would take him to his front window and point across the street and say "cool jazz from there!"
Thank you for picking-up on the comments of a plain vanilla fan. Actually, I came upon Thelonius Monk a few years after the path-breaking, exploratory "bop" sessions at Minton's Playhouse but my ear was still attuned to the music that moved up the Mississippi on riverboats. My ear, at that point was not good enough to comprehend the revolution that Bird, Dizzy, Max Roach, Bud Powel et al, leave-alone Monk, were wreaking, melodically, harmonically and rhythmically. That an ordinary, common-or-garden lover of jazz eventually "saw the light" is a tribute to Monk's genius both as an innovator and composer. It wasn't until the late 70s that the bulb lit! Ciao, Amico/Amigo.
It is a very difficult room acoustically! It is at the Oslo university aula, the big painting in the background is by Edvard Munch painted for that room. It is a great recording, looks like mostly Neumann KM54 and 56s all around. The producer and initiator of the recording, later made a career as a beloved comedian of all things. My favourite gag of his, is were he plays a soviet submarine captain complaining he can see the borders under water. But I digress.
La plus belle, la plus « swing », la plus originale musique du XXe siècle ! Jamais jouée deux fois de la même façon. Une thérapie contre tous les maux, À prescrire sans modération. Viva Monk, Charlie Rouse & Cie…
I have something common with this wonderful record! A day I discovered in luck that the recording was made in New York just the time, day and year that I was born! ❤😊
My mom loved this I felt like nobody new this existed till the 400,000 other comments exactly like thank god for mamas teaching music to there children 😊❤
I love the way they filmed performances like this back then. Like two minutes on the sax player's accompaniment. You really get an insight into the musicianship and emotion of the players. I'm a camera operator and work on multi camera OBs for bands and in 2024 they won't stay on a single shot for more than about 2 seconds. And it has to be moving
its crazy we live in a time where you can just watch a video at home whenever you want
Blimey, I just had the same thought a few moments before reading your comment.
This SOUND produced by kooky Monk-piano contrasting to clear chord-tone lines on sax by Charlie and such a laid back and consistent rhythm section was just a timeless one I'm so thankful for!!!
And we can just click or flick and feast on such masterpieces. What a time.
or even crazier, while on the bus
Fortunate, Happiness & Bless that I can!
So good, right!❤
Monk reminding us all that the piano is a percussion instrument.
The Monk's big, magical hands! 5:05
Monk stops and stands up to politely pay attention to the other musicians! 6:19
Monk paying attention to the drum solo! 8:23
Charlie signals the Monk's return to the piano with a subtle look! 9:30
EVERY instrument is a drum?
Nothing but genius! I'm 82 now, and have loved his music for ages.
Amen brother! Hope to hear this at the pearly gates!! Eternal music
Me too. 82
Monk since ever
Hei 82-vuotias ! Minä olen vasta 67½-vuotias ja tämä musiikki toimii täällä Joulupukinmaassakin ! Suomi. Monk, Mingus, Parker, Zappa... parhainta vointia ja jatkoa täältä JouluPukinmaasta ( SantaClaus Land - Finland ) ... Genelec SubBass waves the...
@@MitchellDormont me too. Enjoy your life
I am 84 so 🙂
Toujours un grand plaisir d'écouter Blue Monk !
Chaque semaine depuis les rives de mon village natal: blue monk m'annonce " le temps d'un weekend"
Genius PURE GENIUS! Monk's music is Van Gogh for the ears. While even the best of hard boppers are doing Algebra, Monk is doing Calculus with Fractals. He is (was) so far advanced in his harmonic sense that I'm not sure we've caught up yet or if we ever will. And don't get me started about his swing !
Boys, if there was ever an underrated tenor sax man, it was Charlie Rouse. He really sublimated his own career to help Monk. We need a documentary on him.🎉
His albums are worth seeking out.
Totally agree with you. His style is as unique as Monk's and they complemented each other so well.
Couldn’t agree more! Rouse is a master of the art from
"Soul Mates" with Sahib Shihab and "Brazil" are some of my favorite Jazz albums ❤🔥
Nailed it - best comment in this video comment thread.
the way he just gets up and walks away after his solo is so cool lmao
The way monk sits down after rouse solos is just as awesome
he got a hard on from his own playing and had to stand up to not break the piano in half with it.
Once again, Europe provides visual as well as audio documentation of great American artists who were not sufficiently appreciated by the art institutions that controlled the airwaves in the land where they were born.
Born and raised in the metro-NYC area, I got to see Monk in person tons when I was growing up. Loved his stuff then, still do...
I'm 85 years old, live in New Delhi, India and have been a jazz fan through the music's Avatars from Joplin to the present day since I was 11. I'm not a musician and loathed Mr. Monk's music when I first heard it. I was aware of the disrespect with which he was treated by fellow musicians (who believed he was "out of tune"). Yet, today, a non-musician like myself, has grown to love his music.
That's the measure of the man who was so far ahead of his time that lesser mortals like us couldn't give him the respect and honour he deserved.
A genius pays the price of living and walking among mere mortals.
R.I.P. Bro and forgive us our trespasses😢
some things grow BETTER with time! like US humans-with-a-still-intact-SOUL. (i'm 78 - conga/Latin drummer - piano was WAY too hard for me - i quit it at 13 - the endless classical recitals became a fright) no need to ask for forgiveness! it just TOOK you a while to find the MAGIC that he knew and shared from the start! better late than never. keep EnJOYing the magic - it's everywhere on TH-cam -- the BEST purchase/acquision that Google ever made! i'd say. WHAT a benefit to us all -- creators and consumers and info-seakers! World-Wide
From day one this has always been my favourite, of Monk or anyone else, and I hear it in my head constantly. Yes its amazing how out on his own he was at one time
Definitely an acquired taste ! : )
What gets me is that his music is playful and happy.
@@johnure3283😅
I love the camera cuts away from Charlie Rouse’s solo to Thelonious just standing chilling and enjoying the music 😎 Best band of all time
That's not chilling l. That's Respect
The only thing better than listening to Monk play is watching him play
Sorry, nothing beats listening.
Im 53 and thought I never could understand jazz ,I just was not listening till now WOW
This is from the same European tour that Clint Eastwood made the centerpiece of his Monk documentary, "Straight, No Chaser", and that's my seventh and eighth grade music teacher, Ben Riley, on drums.
an ABSOLUTELY incredible movie that no one knows about much less that Clint Eastwood wrote and directed it
@@hanskloss1331 UMM UK theres a Jazz magazine called the same 'Straight No Chaser' 90's til now edited by Paul Bradshaw.
So cool to have Ben Riley as your music teacher we just had some old hippy 😂 She was lovely but still couldve been better
@@englishguy9680 Those of us who were into jazz were in awe of Ben (never "Mr. Riley", unless some big shots came around). He was the coolest teacher, ever.
@@hanskloss1331 Eastwood didn't write nor direct it, he was executive producer.
Thelonious Monk's hands (and feet-toe tapping) are mesmerizing - all four musicians are totally brilliant. Thank you TH-cam for this !
For some reason this song makes me grin like I heard a great joke. I love this song. It's like he's kidding with you about something.
Me pasa y más con el solo del piano , veo que el man exploro ese piano y quiso tocarlo así para sacar algo raro , divertido y genial , saludos desde colombia 👍🏿
Yes!!!!!!!!!
Couldn’t agree more. Found myself with that same smirky sentiment. Kudos
That was Monk for you, I imagine he was gregarious person
I dont know the way it begins sounds a bit like
"you better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why" - Santa Claus is coming to town
What do you think?
It’s called the right notes at the right pace. The slight discord is planned and wonderful. Genius is not doing the expected; it’s reimagining what can be. Love me some Monk. Coolest cats in town
Charlie Rouse, hat tip, sir. - thank you; This was recorded the year I was born. I am humbled by all of this greatinesss,
As Charlie Rouse once told me,"....Monk's music is very simple and correct...."
The close ups of Monk’s hands as he plays his iconic riffs are very interesting. They show his unique stiff fingering technique and his overhand playing. It’s very different from the technique of most pianists.
Stride
No sh** 😅
Monk inspires every jazz player to explore what is possible and what kind of sounds you could give a chance even though they aren't what people expect to hear necessarily. His influence and impact can't be understated
Yes, it’s depressing that ‘influencer’ has come to mean something else . . .
Many great Monk compositions too!
Not every jazz player. Academic musicians are often conservative players who ridicule any attempt at something new. As a performing jazz musician I’ve come across that attitude frequently. Monk was the opposite of that.
I never met someone who understands Jazz.
Well done. I hope your parents are proud
ill never get tired of watching monks unique fingering, my face hurts from smiling
I'm joining the Hurty Face Jam Band! Who's with me!
@@brucegoodwin634
Monk still inspiring new bands all the way from from the universal ether……😮
it figures
& the PERFECT
name too❗️
@@LeafGreen906 that’s not piano fingering. It’s not piano playing. He had no concept of piano sensitivity and melodic/ harmony voicings. He was rediculous. People calling this guy a genius is nonsense. Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Chic Corea, Herbie Hancock and others are the geniuses.
@@gregghatten1611 jazz legends including the ones you mentioned certainly recognized monk as a genius, do you know better than them? i get monk isnt everyones cup of tea but making statements like that is quite arrogant. Monk learned classical piano when he was younger but intentionally developed his own style of playing, that much is documented. Behind the discordant notes and angular melodies theres an incredibly sophisticated sense of motivic development, not to mention swing, groove and the amount of jazz standards he composed. Besides, if you listen to early bebop, stride or boogie Monk isn't that far away.
@@gregghatten1611i know nothing about piano but i can tell you that he clearly had a fantastic sense of melody and rhythm. he very clearly applied that in this video,
Only Monk can stand and watch during the song and it’s just seems right. Of course his playing style is one of a kind 🎵🎵
My dad saw him play in the e late ‘50s. Monk actually came out into the audience to dance and my dad said that was worried that Monk wouldn’t make it back to the piano in time. He did of course. 😂
@@zman890that's gold! Cool story man, made me smile.
Sometimes-like in this video-Monk sounds like Count Basie on LSD.
2:02 this phrase is so fucking cool
Monk is a genius. He's probably somewhere in Heaven playing cards with Shakespeare, Michelangelo and Chopin
Maybe chatting/jamming with Sun Ra on Saturn's moon Titan?
and takin' their cash
And my dog Blue 💙
That would make him an old soul, not innovative!
Better not play with Nixon. He was a card shark
charlie rouse - great horn player. great fit for monk.
Very true !
I was speaking to a pro sax player a few years a back and was pleased to hear him say he thought Charlie is underrated. He and Monk certainly had an amazing connection. I like the Mulligan recordings with Monk but they still don’t have this same feeling and Charlie and Monk
@@englishguy9680 That’s interesting. He played on the very first Monk record I ever bought and I have admired his playing ever since. He and Monk just seemed to have a special rapport.
Charlie Rouse is so underrated.
Monk always intrigued me, like when you see videos of him playing, his form is so strange and stiff, and when you see it without audio, it looks like it would sound bad, but then you actually hear it and it’s like the greatest thing you’ve ever heard. I also love how his face looks during his solo, you can like see the gears turning, constantly coming up with the next 10 phrases he’s going to play, it’s amazing.
Like there are jazz artists I like more than Monk, not very many, but a few, but Monk feels like the epitome of what jazz is, breaking the rules in all the right ways.
Shinx you got it. There are on the spot calculations going on in his noggin. He was cross checking his aural math in real time then letting us benefit from the gears. You know how the math teacher always says "Show your work" Well his work was this superior harmony.
This is absolutely killer!! Naturally the best gift our lord brought for us all.❤.
Those Norwegians sure know a good thing when they see it. This is a valuable historical document.
The Scandinavian Jazz audiences were very knowledgeable and appreciative of American artists
I believe norways number one improvisational comedian Harald Heide Steen was in charge of the film crew. For some reason.
I am 35. First Time earing the music of Thelonius. Just by the way he start, the posture, the hands movements, the playing with the piano, the waiting to the saxo, just that Is genius. Fantastic ❤
Monk broke all the rules beautifully...
That Bass solo was smooth as butter my god
@joshc7656 Although I play keys, that bass really spsaks to me. 🎶🎸🎶🎹🎶😁Play on
I distantly recall my introduction to this song, within the last few months or so, being people making fun of the piano solo here; not sure if it's for the technique or for the sound of it. Either way, rather ridiculous to mock it; the look of playing piano shouldn't matter as long as the piano's being played, and considering how many of the notes being played so cleverly miss being discordant by inches, I'd say the piano's being played _damn_ well.
@ mochalait199 You can see he is calculating the harmonies. He is trying to see how far he can go from the original chart. This solo is pure genius. Monk is Van Gogh for the ears man.
I'am sure paradise is his home now. Rest in peace dear Monk.
His side men elevate to superstar levels with the Monk tickling the ivorys.
i like how monk just stood there and waited
Monk inspires me to remember piano is a percussive, struck instrument!
EXACTLY - an 88 key drum! he plays the piano keys like an African drummer plays their skin drums. i know this because i drummed for 10 ten years with many West African touring companies that passed through Cleveland OH. i know his HAARMONIES are amazing. but it's his RHYTHM that always nails me! what a wonderful artist! and AGAIN -- thank the universe for AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING and for SHARING-SERVICES like TH-cam! why not PLAY-ALONG with this great (and other) music! get a VERSATILE Latin Percussion Aspire 11 inch conga drum to play -- and you will be happy forever! during my ten years with the West Africans - i NEVER heard a negative or a cross word from ANY of these world-class drummers! drumming is HEALING. and FUN. and ENJOYABLE. just like this magically-percussive music from Thelonious!
thelonious Sphere Monk: the complete genius
Hell - o ,yeah ! Monk we must know is most modernistic musicians giants next to the Most Improvisational God Almighty governing consciousness soulselves with subtleties of energies melodies , rhythms n harmories patterns ; we all are unique individuals perceptional n creatively godly spirits ,some cultural learned behaviorism personalities of chakras centers vibratory equilibrium along the spinal cord, blocked chakras n opened senting n receiving messages wwide .
Cheers man
Faultless, effortless, and legendary already.
Monk knew how to get to the heart of music, it's all about the rhythm of your lines.
Lost forever today..... These were some badass days.....
In my 70's now. Somehow I picked up a copy of one of Monk's albums in the 1960's. He his music has always fascinated and intrigued me.
Great AV quality. Thanks for posting. There will never be enough live footage of Monk on TH-cam.
😉We Norwegians love real music. We always have.
That’s why you gave us Death Metal?
@@Chiller11 Selvfølgelig.Trodde du noe annet?
I always thought you Norwegians Wood.
Great to see this on the internet!
Charlie is crazy underrated. His solo on straight, no chaser is just perfect.
All the pretenders should have folded and gone home after hearing that. He and Miles were gods.
I totally dig this, and I always have.
I still play it and sometimes roll off into it from something else that fits, finally returning to whatever it was I was playing before.
This riff is like the seasoning on the steak, the olive in the Martini, the smile on the dancing girl, the daisy in the park...
You get it man?
Of course we dig. Why else be here?
Not yet, but I'm optimistic.
Waking up with Monk... Jazz is my religion!
Love it 😎🎶
Wow wow these masters of music are totally on a higher level🎉🎉🎉
I was living normal reality and then clicked on this, and then transformed to Monkland.
And this video is a breath of fresh air!
This is beautiful. Monk is the man.
That restored/colorized footage is amazing, not to mention the musicians and music itself. Thank you!
Never seen this before. Masterpiece. Man, what a session.
If Mr. Monk and Mr. Young were still around, they could play any of my trumpets or guitars they wanted to. However, am impressed the way you care about with your LOVE for your exquisite piano. Am sure your piano and you sound astounding. MUSIC
2 pc drumkit with 2 cymbals is all u need here!
Let thy drummer travel light! 😂😂❤
I learned about this song when I googled top 10 jazz songs that are easy to learn for guitar. I'm making my way through it, but I got to give a shout out to that outstanding bass solo.
If it was a song it would have lyrics.
@@MrSimonmcc What is the definition of song to you? lol
It's a song
When I was young, I would never have been able to appreciate this style of JAZZ. Monk was truely a Master of music (a Master just like Mozart).
Thank you Casper...you GET it.
Ben Riley, with the most simple drumkit you can imagine, makes more music with this equipment than many drummers with big drumkits (floortoms, lots of cymals etc. etc.): genius.
Beautifully filmed. Great version of this über Monkian tune
so early video recording...people had taste then...recognized how good, musically important the moments were...not everybody...and yet we get to see bits of important times in some peoples' of then...how important they were...and are and can be for us...now...that's a wow. Thanx to engineers everywhere at all times...!
The happiest blues and beautifully muted Kodachrome colours.
My high school jazz band teacher Sid Lasaine 1985 had us play this to warm up but never gave us the name. Weird coming across it years later on TH-cam.
The greatest American export of all time
My favorite!
Thelenious Monk the great. Merci pour ton génie ❤
First heard him back in the day in the 70s when I worked across the street from WJZZ in Detroit on the Boulevard.
My boss would say "What are you listening to?"
I would take him to his front window and point across the street and say "cool jazz from there!"
Thank you for picking-up on the comments of a plain vanilla fan. Actually, I came upon Thelonius Monk a few years after the path-breaking, exploratory "bop" sessions at Minton's Playhouse but my ear was still attuned to the music that moved up the Mississippi on riverboats. My ear, at that point was not good enough to comprehend the revolution that Bird, Dizzy, Max Roach, Bud Powel et al, leave-alone Monk, were wreaking, melodically, harmonically and rhythmically. That an ordinary, common-or-garden lover of jazz eventually "saw the light" is a tribute to Monk's genius both as an innovator and composer.
It wasn't until the late 70s that the bulb lit!
Ciao, Amico/Amigo.
A true timeless gem 💎
How can anything this perfect possibly exist
alltid lite "craysy" .. I love the jazzmusik ... Bjoernen from Roslagen in Sweden ..
Love it at 55 years young still!!!!✌🏿👊🏾💪🏿👍🏿🙏🏿🐼🍴✝️🎸
Great museum gallery! Cusps to the recording engineer and crew. Live rooms like that are nearly impossible to tame.
It is a very difficult room acoustically! It is at the Oslo university aula, the big painting in the background is by Edvard Munch painted for that room. It is a great recording, looks like mostly Neumann KM54 and 56s all around. The producer and initiator of the recording, later made a career as a beloved comedian of all things. My favourite gag of his, is were he plays a soviet submarine captain complaining he can see the borders under water. But I digress.
This was my 9th birthday. I was living in a small town about 25 miles
outside of Boston. This must have beenwhy people were busy.
Looks like he's patting at bongo drums. Love it
Wow……that a great performance by all the players!
This should be a Poster and placed in the Museof Modern Art
I play piano as a hobby and my dad heard so he sent me this
Get practicing 😂
Dad's got taste for sure.
La plus belle, la plus « swing », la plus originale musique du XXe siècle ! Jamais jouée deux fois de la même façon. Une thérapie contre tous les maux, À prescrire sans modération. Viva Monk, Charlie Rouse & Cie…
All musicians are great
I have something common with this wonderful record! A day I discovered in luck that the recording was made in New York just the time, day and year that I was born! ❤😊
It's very easy to listen to. Instantly recognizable and straight ahead. Watching at the same time is another story.
Hear Monk you don’t hear anybody what an original!!!!
My mom loved this I felt like nobody new this existed till the 400,000 other comments exactly like thank god for mamas teaching music to there children 😊❤
I ask for your prayers and healing vibes as I continue to face health challenges. Thank you for your support.
I love the way they filmed performances like this back then. Like two minutes on the sax player's accompaniment. You really get an insight into the musicianship and emotion of the players. I'm a camera operator and work on multi camera OBs for bands and in 2024 they won't stay on a single shot for more than about 2 seconds. And it has to be moving
Wow. I was blown away by this music. Superb.
It's amazing how good Ben Riley sounds despite having such a minimal drum kit.
Quel plaisir et quelle fraîcheur d’écouter ce Blue Monk: génial et intemporel : absolutely delicious !
Fantástico!
Charlie Rouse!
Goodnight…
..and thank you.
Ben Riley reminding us of what a percussion master can do with just a snare.
Verlos tocar es en sí mismo un espectáculo!
just heard and watched this cat for the first time ever. mind blown
This is so good!
I love Larry Gales.
So unique. What a style!