Thelonious Monk Quartet in Poland April 1966
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2011
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00:00:00 Epistrophy
00:03:20 Round Midnight
00:10:30 Lulu's Back In Town
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charles Rouse - tenor
Lawrence Gales - bass
Benjamin Riley - drums
this is the stuff youtube was created for, historic recordings you'd never hear and see anywhere else in your life.
Hi Timkjazz, I appreciate so much that you ,as a beautifull yuongster that you are into the real jazzmusic from the past! I am so lucky that I was there in these period. Monk, Miles, Griffin, Coltrane, Art Blakey, Philly Jo Jones, Stan Getz, Bill Evans ( we drove together in my car to a concert In Amsterdam).check my photobook "My Jazz Moments' maybe you find it on internet...many jazz bebop greetings, thanks Frits !!
I agree, brought up on jazz and classical. I think I'd better check into the year of this, not sure if I was born yet. Stumbled on this that it would make a nice lullaby! Enjoy!
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@ImaginarilyInc
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Wrong. It was created to post shitty cats videos. Then people realized they could give it a worthiest use to it.
Thank you, miss...we needed to hear that...always good to find people who love jazz :-)
Monk had an incredible harmonic and rhythmic sensitivity. He often sounds late, but somehow, he is always perfectly on time.
Monk operated outside of the "Sphere" of rhythm and time......
Everybody-don't you wish we could have him back? Forget all the criticism here. For one night, bring Monk back.
Make a fundme page
Better make it a month or two. Can you imagine the media fest and the crowds?
i did that one time. with a lot of drugs
@@paqallqu1182 I did a lot of drugs one time. With a that.
This is a great piece of history. People getting caught up in tearing down the performers are missing the music to spite their faces. Their loss. I love every second of this.
Yes.
Fascinated
I love how Monk always fell back on stride piano as his basis. He didn't play it as some kind of historical throwback nod to 'jazz origins' he really was a stride pianist, but with the hugest array of modern dissonances in his harmonies. In this way he encompasses it all. He was the real deal.
the only dissonance is slight detune of instruments (biggest detune between piano and sax)
All of Monks compositions are full of dissonance. It’s one of the things that make his music so unique and beautiful.
Exactly what I was thinking! Monk is a stride pianist who loves the whole-tone scale.
Monk,indeed is and was, as unique a pianist and full of my favorite kind of dissonance notes to rely on.
@@michazielinski4130sax off the tune. It’s merely in the melody.
So awesome !! Larry Gales is my great uncle..great to see him in his prime.
...and he's swangin' his butt off here...sheeesh!!! Blessings!!!
He and Ben Riley caught fire on the European tours. This was just a teaser for TV.
This transcends cool
Charlie Rouse is a criminally underrated player... I just needed to say that...
Possibly the best saxaphone player ever to play with Monk. Coltrane and Sonny Rollins were both great players and both worked well with him - Rollins probably better. But Rouse had a unique sympathy for Monk's music.
painfully out of tune here.
For his facial expressions alone!
@@morbidmanmusic I had to look through the comments to make sure it wasn't just me! He's a quarter step sharp!
Yeah what was that? I assume it's either piano or the recording system causing that, because sax is easy to tune on the spot isn't it by adjusting the mouthpiece? Some parts were clearly out of tune, way beyond the normal dissonance that Monk plays @@morbidmanmusic
Celebrating Monk's Birthday again. University of Columbia radio station has been honoring his birthday by playing his music from midnight to midnight for decades. I just love October 10.
How lucky y'all were!
Love the bass player smoking a pipe. things were cooler in the 50's.
Hahaha, but that pipe must have been very juicy after a while... XD
I wish I looked as cool in a suit.
60s.
So much swag on that stage...hahaha....just classic.
He's revolutionizing music as he moves.
Pure Monk.
Ladies and gentlemen, Larry Gales!!!
What a monster!
Poland, oppressed back then by the USSR, loved Thelonious Monk, so Poles made and preserved these historical recordings.
Thank you Poland
Yes, thanks
Holy shit. I thought Rouse was playing sharp by a semitone but he was ‘sounding’ FLAT. If Poles based their tunings on the western model it makes total sense. Russian pianos would have been Tuned several cents sharper than Western pianos, and string and wind players from America would have been set in their ways so to speak.
@@ashbell1046 :)
Interesting history and oppression is going strong in many countries.
America's Classical music.
As a Tenor Saxophonist myself, I always liked Charlie Rouse. He may not be Coltrane, nor my favorite Tenor man with Monk, Johnny Griffin, but Rouse is more than good enough. I can never get enough Monk.
Charlie was Monk.....
Little Giant would ask Monk to “stroll.” Rouse is the only sax player on Monk’s level. Not that I don’t love Griffin.
As a tenor player I too agree. I saw Rouse once with Sphere, also Johnny and Sonny. With Monk , Rouse was the man.
But as always - way out of tune
Johnny Griffin was special.
There are a ton of Monk videos available on YT,but this has to be the most unusual.Glad I found it!❤
40 years ago when I first heard Monk and his band I thought "out of tune" also. I didn't get it either. Now I do, as a sixty year old, get it. To me the music represents the way life really is, sometimes in tune and sometimes not.
It's called dissonance ;)
fucking wise!
So true...
This is the only Monk recording I've ever heard where part of it sounds out of tune. Not dissonance. @@FaceFeeder
The piano is way out.@@AquaticMammalOnBicycle
Monk's treatment of LuLu's back in town, genuis yet a tad bit eerie. The chords are so monkish
This is history, and oh God what kind of
Totally insane, total genius.
Although my mother played jazz piano when I was a child, I didn't really "get" it until I was in college. And Monk was my hero. In fact I named my cool, wild cat after him, which he probably wouldn't appreciate. But it was done with love. Man, I would love to have been in just one of those sessions.
only 6,882 views? truly a shame.....and 47 likes? stop the ride! i want off this planet now!
masterfully edited! those in between moments are precious
His quartet features the classic lineup of Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on Bass and Ben Riley on Drums
Round Midnight always gives me tears the melody takes me to so many places I've been one time or another in my lifetime, difficult to explain.
何か凄く濃厚な味わいのあるオブリガードや安定ある緊張感が心地よいです
This is priceless on so many levels! THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!
Monk Genious!!
I don't understand why it took me until almost 70 yrs old to "get it" & enjoy listening to this stuff...did I get dropped on my head as a kid & require so many years to recover? Wish these guys were still here playing...
love Thelonius, found I couldn't bear Rouse's pitch, but the genius of Monk is wondrous to behold
Monk è per me uno dei vertici del jazz e della musica in genere, fin dalle prime volte che l'ho ascoltato. Una figura a tratti inquietante, quasi appartenesse a un'altra dimensione...
superbe document : on voit ici que le quartet usuel de monk n'avait pas besoin de répéter, monk en nage, gales avec sa pipe et rouse et riley discutant dans leur coin
lulu's back in town !
D'accord
THANK YOU
ITS A STONE GROOVE MY MAN
that might be the best bass solo of all time, the drummer held him up too
Extraordinarily Wonderful!
Sencillamente fenomenal.
Nice one with a nice cuppa coffe in the morning.
Cheers.
Wonderful, thrilling keeping us close to Monk. Eternally classic and minor key, too
Such a great band.
Mr Charlie Rouse true master , melodic trad inns , one of the greatest before even I was born .
horribly out of tune. His mouth piece needed to be pulled back. he was sharp thru all of this.
I totally love this video. Thanks Clean.
i wtedy i dzisiaj to nowoczesne granie.
The strangeness of a unique and incomparable sound. Really Pure Genius!
really pure detune
Amazing video! Love Monk 😎🎹
The group on this date consists of Thelonious Monk, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; and Ben Riley, drums.
Lawrence Gales was so cool...
Thank you!!!!
Gosh, what a phenomenal share! What peaceful talents they have.....
This is pure Jazz Gold,,
Thelonious, simplesmente um gênio.Faltam personalidades assim nesses tempos que vivemos...
Monk was a crafty man. hahaha. I'm sure there's an interesting story behind it but Poland seemed to get American culture back then fairly frequently. There's a video of Alica Coltrane and her trio playing in Warsaw using an old beat up harp. It must have been in the early 70s.
This is a piece of priceless vintage footage. Thank you very much indeed for posting it.
fantastyczne wystąpienie
i jak pięknie nastrojone instrumenty
This was fifty years ago next month. Man, the time flies!
This is a jewel, not happen again . Tanx
素晴らしい！
The Glenn Gould of jazz. He had the right stuff...pure genius!
me too
Terry Westbrook-Lienert Glenn Gould has nothing to do with this culture, or creativity, and it's a false comparison in my view. Monk must be turning over in his grave. Compare not. Monk is...Monk. There is no comparison, and he is certainly not "The Gould of Jazz", but I do agree, Monk is a genius, but completely unique. No one like him before, during, or after him. Purely original as it relates to playing piano.
Yeah that Gould thing was one of the worst comments I've ever seen on youtube @@edbea2
Truly excellent. Wonderful!
Dam these people are so fucking cool! look at how they walk and talk to eachother.. the way they play... I sometimes wish really badly that i was black... Maybe in the next life!
Initially upon reading your comment,as a black man I found them disparaging and condescending however after watching this post for the last couple of months I am a bit remissed in my attitude.This is the quintenssential in COOL and has to be at the apex thereof.
memeexclusive Imagine how you would've felt if he said he was glad he wasn't black.
Thanks for sharing Rashid!
Wow! This is great!
The tenor saxophonist's pitch is very SHARP!!!
at last...someone brave enough to call it out....hes a great player...but they didnt tune up for this one....too much reefer
Perhaps the piano needed tuning
great video, thanks.
Esto es una maravilla, como todo lo de Monk. Muchas gracias por subirlo.
Nice! Thanks, I'll dig around for it.
IIImpresionante joya mística la que se toca este señor...
It's like a short movie
Fantástico!!!
Best Monk capture
wauuu un pasada ! que manera de disfrutar estos 26:37, grandiosas composiciones ! maravillosos músicos! esto un regalo para la eternidad!
Happy Birthday, Monk! :-D
Thanks, MasterFlamaster! I had no idea - and I'm glad the 'control' didn't work out.My Hungarian wife's uncle was a jazz drummer in 1950s/60s Hungary, and the Party made sure that he got a lot of trouble for it. Thanks again for the education: I'll look into this some more, very interesting.
From 9:30 - 9:50, the last runs leading in to the last sax note make it sound out of tune, but Monk's final flourish turned it into the sun rising over the horizon whilst birds chirp in the trees
Pressed dislike by mistake! Sorry! BIG mistake!
On Lulu, the sax is out of tune with the piano. Being Poland and 1966, who knows the condition of the piano.
Yeah, I was trying to listen for the piano being out of tune it’s actually not because when he does that downward run all across the keyboard, it’s right in there he was intentionally playing design and using diminished flat chords
Wow! Nice good Monk
Holy mother of Mary!
love the rhythm around 6:30
Legend.
Yes!
such a huge sound from Wendell Marshall. hard to believe just that little mic on a box, lol!
Wow!
Charlie Rouse always kept his sax tuned like that, it's his sound.
Not enough contemporaries in this thread have spent time listening to Charlie Rouse. Yes, elliota888, this is his sound! :.)
Stanley Scott I wonder how he actually gets that sound - does he bite down real hard? or is he blowing through the upper part of his embouchure? always wondered, it's certainly unique to him. Am sure Monk wouldn't let him play out of tune, dude had standards.
Good question elliota888. I don't directly know the answer. My limited training on alto makes me think a combination of pressure and placement yielded the result. It was consistently Charlie! Like u say, Monk never suffered fools.
The sharp sax becomes part of the harmonic flavor. If you listen closely to the very end of his phrases, he comes down often to standard pitch. Dizzy often played sharp, too.
Plutopete Birch I don't get it. Doesn't make any sense. I can't enjoy it. It's out of tune.
It's sad because they obviously are all geniuses that would sound so good together.
Monk's solos are so perfect. He sounds like he has no bullshit filter, everything he plays means it and fita the changes but mostly the song.
Beauty is for the few...
thank you for all that! I did not know about the ban during Salazar...I am reading two books now about the bans during Nazi Germany....."jazz is a living language" -- I will hold that thought close to heart. All of us need to help everyone get reconnected with higher level thought and feelings. Keep it up!
Never to be understood, but unreachable for all except the very few... too sweet for the teeth of the savage...
Yesss!
Man! Charlie Rouse is playin almost a halftone sharp throughout ! Really disconcerting! Such a beautiful historical object nonetheless.
Did you see that Short (snippet from a TV show) in which Miles Davis raps on the knuckles of/advises a young Trumpet boy to play it in E flat instead of the D natural on the sheet?
monk = my god
Benjamin Riley
Jazz was kind of (for what I know, because I'm too young cat to remember those times) thing PZPR (leading party in Poland for communist era) permitted from 60's onward to keep society "sane" from anti-western propaganda (the same thing later happened with punk rock, they decided that if they can not stop it, they will at least control it to some point). Poland had very good jazz festival during this era called Jazz Jamboree - Miles, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and many others performed on it
Poland was a mekka for jazz brothers!
Muchas graaaaacias!
Génial ! Donde puedo conseguir ese filme.
Abstract crazy. JAZZ
At 5:37 is a secret 'smack da piano with your elbow' technique
lol I saw that in the awesome hilarious contest scene in the movie "Joplin" from 1977 on youtube recently, I didn't think I'd see it in real life real deal by Thelonious Monk
comparing Rouse to Trane to Griffen is like comparing apples to oranges to pears. Rouse was and is my favorite ‘match’ with Monk. 3 great tenor players for all time but for me, Rouse had the right tone and feel for this sound. Warmer and freer. All subjective which is they way it should be. And I love Griffen and Trane too of course
Qué capo, por dios.
This ist the definition of "cool"
Monk was the original hipster.
Yeah
Charlie: sharp suit, sharp sax ###.
cool
Arctic-level cool