Thelonious Monk - Live Zurich 1964
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2014
- Thelonious Monk Quartet
Zurich, Switzerland 02/26/1964
Charlie Rouse (ts)
Thelonious Monk (p)
Edward "Butch" Warren (b)
Ben Riley (d)
Stuffy Turkey
Brake's Sake
Blue Monk
Hot Licks
Well, You Needn't
Rhythm-A-Ning
Epistrophy
Criss Cross
Straight, No Chaser
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Light Blue
Nutty (fade out)
In the 80's, I went to an Asian restaurant in Naples, FL and we went into the adjacent jazz bar for a drink. They were having open mike night and the M.C. said he had a special friend who wanted to play. Thelonius Monk sat down and played for a couple of hours. He told stories of his friends and the old days. What a priceless night!
Agog.
That's a wonderful story---the only problem is,Monk's last known public appearance was in 1976.He remained homebound in New Jersey for the last few years of his life,and died of a cerebral hemorrhage on February 17,1982.Sorry.
@@postatility9703 82 is 80's
@@paulodejesus9212 I guess the wonderful thing about being human is that you can believe whatever you wish.This is why conspiracy theories are still very widespread today.Sometimes,the facts just have to take a backseat.
Postatility, it was an imposter, for sure...a TM lookalike plying his counterfeit trade in Europe!😂
I was in this concert .Great memory !
Not only Monk, but also a brilliant drummer, a talented saxophonist, and an amazing bassist…😂🤣👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿👍🏾👍🏼
absolutely yes.
@@jggrimm Monk had hired drummer Ben Riley just a week or two before this tour, which was his last with bassist Butch Warren.
facts this drummer 👌👌👌
Ben Riley was a quality drummer. Up there with Tony Williams, Roy Haynes, and other top drummers of that day
Further proof of what a wonderful (and underrated) tenor player Charlie Rouse was. Great solo on Rhythm-a-Ning.
00:00 Stuffy Turkey
11:00 Brake's Sake
20:59 Blue Monk
28:34 Hot Licks
32:16 Well, You Needn't
41:36 Rhythm-A-Ning
47:15 Epistrophy
51:57 Criss Cross
1:00:22Straight, No Chaser
1:09:05 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
1:20:43 Light Blue
1:29:00 Nutty (fade out)
Thank you.
hey TT, thanks bigtime for yet another time signature service to us all!!! 3rd straight tonight (Paris '64, Philly '60 and now this) ...truly yer "a good upstanding human, a credit to the Flock".
We love these people ^
Thank you!
Great album ❤❤❤
Monk's music always has an element of humor in it. Part fun and levity. It affords the soloists a chance to PLAY and noodle. It's always great to hear new tracks by Mr. Monk and accomplices.
somebody commented that a lot of pianists emphasize on bringing as many notes as they can, monk knows exactly what and when to leave notes out.
Yes. Another master said the space is important as the note.
@@robertburnett6348 I must be reaching my peak as I hardly ever play these days!
I think the epitome of jazz is improvisation: Playing music by feel and kinda going with the flow.
I. Spoke with him at the It club in LA
He was a gas , he didn't Talk 2 many people But we had a great visit and he played his ass off ! No one better ,,,
Love ❤️ him and listen to him still ! And 60 years ago !
I love the way Monk takes an idea to the point where he gets kind of lost, then he waits for a moment to pick up the tune. So cool and unbothered.
Kinda gets lost!!!!??? You have no idea about Monks music or jazz for that matter if you think he kinda got lost. Monk NEVER got lost. Some of the best musicians of the day couldn't play his music.
@@jimcathey9643 pretty sure Jason didn’t literally mean Monk gets lost in the sense that he runs out of ideas. He most likely means to the listener it may seem he’s “lost” and to even his band mates, but Monk definitely knew what he was doing and the journey he was taking us to. The journey was almost like a maze for a lack of a better word, but only he knew where he was taking us. Rather don’t disrespect others about knowing Jazz or whoever’s music. Educate people rather 😄. As Coltrane always stated, music is a feeling and Monk himself stated that there is no wrong or right key.
Monk didn't care if people got lost in what he was doing.Remember that he once said"...Don't play what the public wants....Play what YOU want and let the public pick up on it,even it takes 15 or 20 years." Of course,what he plays has always made perfectly logical sense.Along with it's ever-present humor and swing,that logic is what makes his music so timeless,just like Bach,Ellington or the Beatles.
And keep in mind that it was up to everyone else in the band to keep up,or as John Coltrane said,"....if you didn't keep up,it would be like falling into an elevator shaft.."
anyone on here listening is obviously a music lover of some sort and I'm sure he meant no disrespect. This is why so many ppl think jazz is some kind of snob music and only some of "us" get it. Doesn't mean we don't enjoy it. Lighten up for Pete's sake.
I’m currently sitting front row. Believe me or not, at THIS CONCERT. Monk is beautiful
Always refreshing listening to Monk's music
Monk is magic
No matter what mood I'm in,after I listen to Thelonious and crew,it's always better!
Quel sublime plaisir ! Quelle intelligence ! Un disque remarquable par chaque soliste !
As a jazz person told me once- " A day without Monk is like a day without sunshine!!" I live to listen to him every single day of my life!!!
I will pardon you for your Anita Bryant orange juice reference
His music lives on in my heart.
National Treasure , known Internationally and as Humble as could possibly be 😊❤🙏🏾👆🏾
yes, radiant radish indeed. I love this - thank you for posting. When Monk et al gets in your head it's there and back, it's freedom, like it's just you and them, big window to be walking around in all day. This music, these guys, are rapidly becoming the only thing that makes sense.
even more so today!
“…ain’t no wrong note on no damn piano!” Lucky me was there at that memorable concert im Volkshuus Züri. Can’t believe that was 56 years ago.
No wrong note on Drums either!
I was only 3 1/2 years old and not even living in Zürich then; NOW I realise what was to miss!
Music that age with time and get younger every day we enjoy
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Whenever I put Monk quartet on headphones, I'm out like a light. That's not a negative thing. They just draw me in deep straight away and I'm gone!
Pretty amazing recording for 64. Bass sounds like its in my room.
It is
Wow, Butch Warren... such a great bass player!
@radiantradish22222 Thanks very you much for such a magnificent upload.
Peaceful and calming
So cool
Muchas Gracias por compartir esta jolla musical.
Oh man, this rendition of Blue Monk 20:59 hits all the feel-good cells in my body.
Straight no chaser is one of the best versions what I have heard. Charlie Rousse has a fantastic solo!
this just pure music
I never tire to listen to you Thelonious!
@Zé Maria Braz I am never tired of listen to him, me too.
no comments to night i am going too set back and listen to my favorite pianist one that i have seen so many times at the plug nickle jazz club in Chicago and well missed because their is no other can take the place of T.Monk he his the Greatest , which i can say something for the Count to put a smile on his face you know where i am coming from oh well good bye for now.Henry j
Herny, where was the Plugged Nickel?
My 5tet opened for Monk in 1967. As 21 - 25 years old we were on clouds 9, 10 - 1,000,000!!! When Monk and Charlie Rouse walked into our joint backstage dressing room I could have sworn they were so cool they looked like they were walking but they just glided across the floor. Never touched the ground -- Ultra-cool!!!
Yes, Bro...I'm QUITE SPITEFUL on mr.Basie, even tho my Father Loved him (iPreferELLINGTON)!
Dude Thelonious saved my life. I was strung out back in 1991 and was in a detox program. Someone gave me a Monk cassette while there and I listened to it. Never wanted to get high again. I found a new drug. It's was THEE Thelonious Sphere Monk. I emerged myself in is music. I kid you not. 28 years later and I'm still clean. Music heals.
@@callmemonkh9020 -- "Ellington at Newport"..."Diminuendo & Crescendo in Blue." Nothing surpassed it yet.
Escuché por primera ocasión a Thelonious Monk en Abril de 1971 en el programa JAZZ de la HJCK, de Bogotá y desde entonces me aficioné a su Música..a su estilo para tocar el piano y a sus músicos del Quartet.. hace 50 años.. quién lo creyera..y sigue alegrando nuestras horas bien en la tarde bien en la noche.. ahora en el tiempo horrible de la Pandemia..
Absolutely Beautiful!
Sweet up tempo stuff! Exquisitely retro yet significant for the times we live in today.
Speechless. Wow!
Crazy perfect as always!
👏👏👏👏👏👏Amazing! RhythMic, Harmonious, and heartfelt sincere, put their souls into this show! Utterly Amazing, First time hearing them, and him 👏👏👏👏👏👏trying new things
Thelonius Monk was and is jazz!!!!
Thelonious Monk : another & special way of swing .......!!!
The asteroid 10426 Charlierouse was officially named to honor Charlie Rouse by American astronomer Joe Montani of Spacewatch, who discovered it in 1999. Earlier, in 1994, asteroid 11091 Thelonious was also discovered and named by Montani.
Dig that.
+morningblue
The only place this guys deserve...the sky, among the stars
morningblue
+morningblue
Well, they always said Monk was from outer space.
consider it dug GREAT album
from outta space and deep-rooted in real life
So happy to see all the love for Monks music even today. It's very difficult to find a negative comment on a monk video on UA-cam, which is great! :D
Always makes me smile!
Thelonious' music is,above all,always fun to listen to.
Muchas Gracias por compartir este excelente album del gran Monk.
Saludos desde México.
Thanks, you are truly a radiant radish. Monk is true genius.
+Lindley Higgins you said radish
What "Music Morons" would give one of Monk's finest sets ever a thumbs down?! What the hell...
That was certainly the work of someone who wanted to give a thumbs down to one of Monk's finest sets ever, Mr. "Logic Moron", dude. ;)
T.Monk & Charlie Rouse ❤
Thelonious had really first rate musicians around him. Charlie Rouse was outstanding and really understood Monk's music.
MAGNIFIQUE concert !!!
Great to hear the bass!
Charlie Rouse killing it again
Thelonious you totally rule
Monk is forever
THANK YOU
My mind is blown away 🎹🎷🎺🎸🎻🥁
Thank you for this, this is a real treasure !!!
Why can't this and Monk be on TV every night? Then no more national music deficit. Robert Burnett.
Didn't know this album, an absolute treat. Thanks so much!
Interesting mix on this recording, the low end is cranked up in your face like a rock band in later years. Really captures the energy when the whole band is playing. Love it! I listen to various Monk recordings all the time.
I like his spartan playing.He made a whole piece out of one note.
Thanks for this. Monk was Monk. He didn't compose a lot of new tunes but what he did with what he had. New and interesting solos every time. I have heard many Monk recordings many times but I am hearing new music here, just because I haven't heard it before. Great performance, great recording. Thanks again.
???? He created at east 70 original compositions. Seventy. That's " a lot " of new tunes.
@@kleinequietboykleinequietb7126 I agree with you. That wasn't my point. I was responding to an earlier post about how he had done his best work earlier in his carreer and spent the rest of the time replaying the old tunes. My feeling was that it wasn't whether or not he came up with new tunes as much as what he did with his tunes. His compositions are landmarks in the world of jazz but his arrangements and his solos took those compositions further. Thanks for your response.
Musicians and critics for years talked about how difficult Monk's compositions were to play.I had the great fortune of knowing Charlie Rouse,and I once asked him about this.Charlie told me,"Once you get them down,you realize that his tunes are very simple and correct...."
Old wine,but always in a new bottle.
❤❤ j y étais , très bien enregistré, génial.
Thank you so much for sharing this rare treasure!
Was lucky enough to start listening to the Genius in 1954. Charlie Rouse just swings his ass off here. Great concert-. Thank you Mr Radish!
Uno de los mas grandes narradores de México de todos las epocas. Siempre es un placer escuchar al maestro Pepillo
FANTASTIC... the drummer is the best one... thanks a lot for the post
Pro tip : watch series on Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies these days.
@Alejandro Francis Definitely, I have been watching on Flixzone} for since december myself :)
This was so great. Thank you for posting!
one more thing i must say is that back in the day we called Rouse and Monk Ham and Eggs because they sound so so so good to gather well it has been good listen put it is now time for me to say my Pray for today which is the Holy Rosary.
I love you Henry clark
How dare anyone dislike this
In fact, I saw him there in 83. Naples. IS HEAVEN!!!!
Thelonious Sphere Monk (/θəˈloʊniəs/, October 10, 1917 - February 17, 1982)
Monk was sort of conservative about his music making. he wrote some revolutionary tunes early on, then carried on playing them for the rest of his life pretty much- as with this playlist. The main difference between what he was doing and others doing the same thing for years is that this sounds so fresh 55 years later, and it would have been totally recognisable to the Minton's audience of 20 years and more before this. Bliss.
"totally recognisable"? Monk had some devoted admirers from the very beginning, but not many. He was a "musician's musician" for many years. It's true that he never changed his style, and mostly quit composing by the late fifties, in part to piss off everyone for neglecting him prior to that time, I think. But his artistry remains overwhelming.
I see monk as a chef who cooked the best out of the ingredients of a dish called bebop. Mainly because he knew what to leave out.
beauty...beauty..beauty...
he says he played chopin and Rachmaninov as a teenager. And cut back intentionally on his use of "technique " to more clearly elaborate on his rhythmic and harmonic innovations. I believe him. Monk was a joker, but not a bullshitter. For all you, including Oscar Peterson who think Monk aint " a great pianist"
And, here, everything he plays is crystal clear and clean. And SO in the rhythmic pockets, many pockets of which, did not even exist before monk came along.
Thanks for the trivia - I wasn't always a Monk fan, but just recently I'm converting. I'm still inclined to like Bobby Timmons and Horace Silver the most, but it's strictly a personal preference. Monk's growing on me in a big way - really unique player. I find new (old) music I like every day.
I agree :) " Merci beaucoup for sharing your knowledgeable information ever so interesting
Have all a lovely Wednesday
Miles Davis didn't like him either, plays too slow!! Monk's been my man since the mid-60s, caught him live about 1963, wasn't really prepared for what I heard. I like his solo-trio with Blakey , band, not so much. He's always humorous, bendy, twisty. What's not to love, following him down that path. His solo playing I've heard described as being alone in an empty concert hall, monumental...
He developed an entirely different sound in order to distinguish himself from all the other bop-era pianists who were mostly Bud Powell devotees.Although Thelonious was a very close friend of Bud's,and helped get his career started in NY,Monk had early influences (notably Ellington and James P Johnson)he was fiercely independent from the time he was playing at Minton's Playhouse in NY in the early 40's.
Stunningly brilliant.
Monk and Rouse:Better than most marriages.
Monk had Nellie. He would have had no career without her. She attempted to keep Monk's act together, for a long time.
@@charlesduckettjr.800 also he had the Baroness - Nica - see book by Hannah Rothschild
@@chrisdann1226 , that is true.
@@charlesduckettjr.800 You're certainly right that,as Charlie Rouse said in the "Straight No Chaser" documentary, "....Nellie was like Thelonious' right arm"and usually traveled with him on tour.
Ben Riley was such a swinging musical drummer great solos his feel perfect for monk
You're right. He kept time so well with good accents then was really melodic during solos or section changes.
@@clintjones9848 -- ....a rare and talented balancing act that never asserted itself out of place. Greetings from San Agustinillo!
Coolest piano jazz players: Monk & Evans...my boxer Leo listen blues and jazz and growin' up well...is a truly cool dog, is my dog.
Really nicely recorded too!
Great!! Thank you!
It's SICK. Thank you so much!
Wish I had been there in the audience in 1964, I was 8 years old in that year, so didn't get to many jazz gigs at the time.
at only 3 i missed that gig for sure.
Sometimes I think my speakers do not play bass loud enough. Sometimes Monk sez relax, man.
This is really rare. Stuffy Turkey and Brake's Sake are from his studio album "It's Monk's Time", and he seldom performed these in public.
merci ;magnifique.
RIP Thelonius
Too soon.
1964....Monk's GREATEST YEAR, I do believe.
One of his best, Son...can't forget 1956 - 1958 also... Brillant Corners, Well You Needn't, Monk & Coltrane...
@@dougauzene8389 Uh...thanks, daddy-o. I underestimate the live Johnny Griffin recordings at the FiveSpot cafe. Gotta go back.
still love it!!
This is very good!
Muito bom. Inesquecível Monk!
INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great recording, I wish I could find it somewhere. The whole group is swinging like mad. I think Butch Warren adds lots of drive to the ensemble.
Butch Warren was the finest bassist Monk ever had IMO. Unfortunately, after this tour, Butch basically retired from music for various reasons. He was only 24 YO at the time.
if you just want the audio, you can peel it right off this 'video'.
Alan Silver Yeah I downloaded it. But I still wish I could get it on LP or CD.
Charles Duckett Jr. Thanks for your good information, I share your opinion. John Ore was great too, along with Frankie Dunlop on drums.
Charlie Rouse.
The lonious, magical Monk
Well, Thelonius Monk and Bebop came of age together. John Ore is not on bass here, nor Frankie Dunlop on drums. There's a sense of a pickup team, sure. But, Monk is Monk, and way before he came downtown to the Five Spot, the Village Vanguard, etc. he was creating some pretty wonderful music in Minton's, the Cotton club, etc. Bless Monk for what he has given to jazz, to all of us.
Bravo!!!!!
Yeah I dig me some Monk!!!
I cannot understand why, this Gig, has never been given an official release. Whoever owns the rights, should look at making this commercially available.
Just caught up with this !!! Many thanks, most appreciated.
Ben Riley's amazing drum solo begins 28:40
+John Shaw also at 7:48
I was listen to the solo and came to see who's the drummer, and seconds later I saw your comment
I like Riley best of all Monk's drummers. Always tasteful and his timing and phrasing are perfect.
Super cool
Just found him today
wow ben's solo is insane