Thelonious Monk performing "Blue Monk" with Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums live at the University Aula in Oslo, Norway, 1966.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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
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?
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 ❤
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!
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
@@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,
Thelonius Monk and Lester Young. Not much else to say. Lester Young, Buck Clayton, with Walter Page-bass, Jo Jones, drums, Buck Clayton, trumpet.Count Basie in a small group in 1930s- Gershwins’s “ Oh, Lady Be Good”- PURE POETRY
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.
Check out Joey Alexander's Tiny Desk concert. Kendrick Scott is playing a very minimalist setup and just wrings about every possible sound from it. It's quite a lesson. Nothing wrong with having a big palette, but being able to pull every bit possible from the palette you have is a very useful skill. th-cam.com/video/_NIFz8wRvMs/w-d-xo.html
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! ❤😊
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!"
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…
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.
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.
Who colored these a fifth grader? Why not leave the original stock footage but clean it up. It really takes away from the moment in time other than that this man is a legend.
It's quite silly how good of a jazz it is, for the reaction it was getting. Every single musician has that Monk playfulness and flippancy and underlying technical mastery.
Wait until its too late to play then see what your subconscious plays. Is it wrong? Repeat like this and like that until you can prove it right. Monk at the edge of jazz is more at its heart than any...
I have listened to so many great pianists from all over the world playing all different kinds of music from classical to jazz and all it's greats like Fats Waller and Errol Garner and Dave Brubeck. I also play myself yet I am missing something regarding the music of Thelonius Monk. I wonder what it is?
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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?
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
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
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.
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.
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. 😂
As Charlie Rouse once told me,"....Monk's music is very simple and correct...."
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.
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 👍🏿
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.
Great AV quality. Thanks for posting. There will never be enough live footage of Monk on TH-cam.
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😅
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
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.
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 ❤
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.
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
The happiest blues and beautifully muted Kodachrome colours.
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!
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
Monk knew how to get to the heart of music, it's all about the rhythm of your lines.
I'am sure paradise is his home now. Rest in peace dear Monk.
Beautifully filmed. Great version of this über Monkian tune
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,
I play piano as a hobby and my dad heard so he sent me this
Get practicing 😂
Dad's got taste for sure.
Charlie Rouse is so underrated.
This should be a Poster and placed in the Museof Modern Art
And this video is a breath of fresh air!
Toujours un grand plaisir d'écouter Blue Monk !
Monk plays all the wrong notes right 😅
“Piano ain't got no wrong notes”
Thelonius Monk and Lester Young. Not much else to say. Lester Young, Buck Clayton, with Walter Page-bass, Jo Jones, drums, Buck Clayton, trumpet.Count Basie in a small group in 1930s- Gershwins’s “ Oh, Lady Be Good”- PURE POETRY
Never seen this before. Masterpiece. Man, what a session.
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
Monk broke all the rules beautifully...
I ask for your prayers and healing vibes as I continue to face health challenges. Thank you for your support.
Tasty chops
Thelonius Monk i Herbie Hancocka najlepsi pianiści jazzowi na świecie
Sometimes I think of this song as my personal theme, but I don't like this version as much as some others. Still gave it a 👍, though. It rocks.
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.
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).
Great to see this on the internet!
hate that it's "colorized". but gotta love the drummer. kinda shows you don't have to be like Dave Weckl's set-up to show talent & skill
Check out Joey Alexander's Tiny Desk concert. Kendrick Scott is playing a very minimalist setup and just wrings about every possible sound from it. It's quite a lesson. Nothing wrong with having a big palette, but being able to pull every bit possible from the palette you have is a very useful skill.
th-cam.com/video/_NIFz8wRvMs/w-d-xo.html
This is beautiful. Monk is the man.
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! ❤😊
Hear Monk you don’t hear anybody what an original!!!!
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!"
What hapenned to the face of saxophonist Charlie Rouse??? Is artificial cololuring trying to make some jazz musicians more whitie?
Love this video and the performance, but I gotta say these new AI-based colorizations look like ass
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…
Love it 😎🎶
Thelonious, is a registered Phrasiologist.
2:02 this phrase is so fucking cool
意外にも好きだったりする。知◯遅れなどと言われたりもするが。
Deez guyz had it.
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.
Nice musicianship by these men. We need more of this creativity level now a days.
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
these guys shoed me I can improvise even when I don't have to
I love Larry Gales.
Thanks for the enhanced sound and video quality. I am interested in Monk's fingernails.
When I die and (hopefully) go to heaven, these are the cats I want playing me in at The Pearly Gates.
A true timeless gem 💎
Can't say I get this.
Neither do I.
Looks like he's patting at bongo drums. Love it
Who colored these a fifth grader?
Why not leave the original stock footage but clean it up. It really takes away from the moment in time other than that this man is a legend.
So what is one comunication jazz and legend miles davis sayin iwangold
Wow……that a great performance by all the players!
Filmed at Aula University, Oslo, Norway.
Master of The paino
How can anything this perfect possibly exist
just heard and watched this cat for the first time ever. mind blown
Перстень очень мешает Монку, всё-таки эти люди- любят эффекты. Музыка? Она прекрасна!🤓
All musicians are great
cool hat
Quel plaisir et quelle fraîcheur d’écouter ce Blue Monk: génial et intemporel : absolutely delicious !
He's tickling them ivorys,"like they owe him money"😂😂❤❤
Verlos tocar es en sí mismo un espectáculo!
Timeless.
I’m here to study the greats don’t mind me.
This video has been quite the hot topic on Twitter huh? (I'm never calling it X)
It's quite silly how good of a jazz it is, for the reaction it was getting. Every single musician has that Monk playfulness and flippancy and underlying technical mastery.
@@airwindowsWhat do you expect from blue checkmarks? They were idiots before Elon, and they’re still idiots after Elon took over
Really? What did I miss?
If you spend your days smoking pot you will miss a lot
@@harryclarencealexander9161True!
My favorite!
Comme quoi l homme est capable de faire autre chose avec du bois a part des armes alkasoon 75
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Larry was robbed early on. He had to take a lap…
Wait until its too late to play then see what your subconscious plays. Is it wrong? Repeat like this and like that until you can prove it right. Monk at the edge of jazz is more at its heart than any...
Can I say the first I saw monk In color I cried… seriously I did
Das ist einer der genialsten Musiker - für den Musik so was ist - wie ein Rätzel das man lösen will. Also eigendlich Keiner
Great !!!!
Honestly - the colorization takes away not adds.
i like having both.. i can better imagine seeing it live with this version
I like it in colour too, it enhances the spectacle.
Harmonious dissonance ??
is this the guy from euphoria????
😊.
Ein Tag ohne Monk ist wie ein Tag ohne Sonne!
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This zenith cool
Born in Rocky Mount N.C.
LINDO E ESPECIAL
I have listened to so many great pianists from all over the world playing all different kinds of music from classical to jazz and all it's greats like Fats Waller and Errol Garner and Dave Brubeck. I also play myself yet I am missing something regarding the music of Thelonius Monk. I wonder what it is?
who else watched the man leave like im out LOL
Only an absolute genius in the middle of the track stands up and checks that everything is OK...