Thelonious Monk Quartet, Copenhagen, Denmark April 17th, 1966 (colorized)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Lulu's back in town 00:00
Don't blame me 17:45
Epistrophy 23:13
The band :Thelonious Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), Larry Gales (bass) and Ben Riley (drums)
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Larry Gales (bass)
oh my god its THE RON CARTER
NOT Ron Carter on bass, he was with Miles at the time.
Hey, Ron!
Larry's solo on "Lulu" is one of my favorite of all time!
The Picasso of progressive jazz .. yet playing to 35 fans in a boxing stadium , Newcastle Australia in approx 1963-4 .. graciously autographing for my brother out the window of the VW Kombi .. on his Aussie Tour , courtesy of Kim Bonython .. brutal reality of life as a genius ..❤❤
keeping materials like this available is the best thing internet can do
The amount of love and appreciation that Monk had for Charlie Rouse is shown by letting Charlie have extra solo choruses before closing "Lulu" out.And Rouse is in a wonderfully playful mood.❤❤❤
One of the most important jazz artists cause he was also a top tier composer. Art, Oscar, Nat, were great performers. Monk was jazz.
I love and laugh so hard at Monk's mode when he realizes he should stop dancing and get into the soloing after Charlie asap. I love this vibe so much!
Ben Riley on the drums is pure class.
Monk almost desperately looks for harmonically interesting “outside” rabbit holes to musically/mentally climb up and down. He clearly borders on genius and sanity. One of those rare treasures that rarely come along.
Don’t know what you’re talking about, he’s just playing what he knows
Judging things you don’t understand is bordering on insanity (and definitely not genius)
An interesting metaphorelicit
If you say so....
No one played better with Monk than Charlie Rouse.
Copacetic with Milt Jackson.
Thelonius dancing is priceless!! Thanks for this. My life is complete now
5:11. Monk turning around sharply to sit down once his cue to play came up -- priceless.
@@johndrake2729 I had not noticed that impressive detail. And it is impressive because it arrives at the exact moment without losing the tempo for a second. Thanks for that great detail.
Entertainment,but in a completely organic way.As Charlie Rouse told me,"....Thelonious was never trying to be commercial.He just reacted to how he felt the music by getting up and expressing himself,as he did when playing..."
Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: “I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better.”
Monk always answers his own riddles.....perfectly.
Monk wasn't much of a talker. But he and nobody else could find the words to describe what he was doing with that piano. It's on another spiritual plane.
his piano playing did the speaking.
No matter how he improvises in such imaginative ways he can still resolve perfectly every time as required by the song structure.
“Resolve” is exactly the concept. Listen. Makes sense. Even though Monk is pretty out of it.
OMG when Monk comes in at 14:23, the timing is absolutely perfect. It's a work of art in itself. Like an archer picking precisely the right moment to let the arrow fly. And I guess that's what the secret is throughout all his playing. But there is more that I just realised. The reason for all the "messy" notes is to get around the problem that, unlike other instruments such as the sax, a piano is expressively limited. You can't alter the tone of a note much compared with most other instruments. So Monk emulates this by deliberately playing discordant clusters in order to get a greater range of expression.
And these two things, timing and expression, are the most important aspects of music, but they are so difficult to teach and validate, I fear it gets lost in music education.
14:23 is all you really need if you want to master music.
Pure genius. Monk could have created lemonade. Those off notes drive my crazy.
Monk is like the Picasso of the jazz. Unique style for this years and for now on. Maybe that's why he didn't play much with other famous soloists. Althoug his album with John Coltrane is wonderful
Monk : un leader , un créateur et l'une des personnalités clées de l'histoire du jazz 🎖🏆 🥇 🏅 🏆
Monk = l'As des As .
T. Monk was a genius on his instrument. A Classic of bringing an abstract approach to Jazz in it many colours to get the listeners interest from the norm into an abstract sense of mode & colours. He was never the casual Genius.
Dude how deep an observation. You just scratched surface of almost everything he's doing with those piano keys. His mad imaginary musical skills were (Straight Dope) to say the least Bro. !!!
Simply amazing. Mr. Monk is my favorite pianist.
Lulu always makes me happy 🥰
Super great song.
Monk stands for the eternal love in jazz.
Thanks for this.
Thelonious en grande forme, un excellent batteur, merci pour ce document, en plus en couleur 👍😊
Man, that's just fabulous! Monk swings and even dances like a mf. He's even funny in how he plays, kind of winking at you like he's joking sometimes. Unique and heartfelt.
This is priceless. Having never heard the great man and quartet in person the colorization just brings the experience closer. Thanks so much!
Amazing lick at 20:58. You can see Larry behind going: "Wow!!!!" and Ben replying: "Yup!!!!". The Jazz Kraken was at the piano!
Monk was a Mega BadAss... and his band rocked heavy ☕🎹
That moment at 6:09 put me into a trance for the rest of the solo. It locked me right in. So beautiful.
Comes back in right on cue after dancing, genius
"If genius is the ability to construct one's own cosmos, Monk met the standard. Dance was at the heart of Monk's music."
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Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American composer and jazz pianist who contributed to the cool jazz, hard bop, and bebop styles of music.
Source: MasterClass
14:23
“You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?”
- Thelonious Monk
He is clearly an extraterrestrial. Sent to us from another time and place. We got lucky.
How do you explain Monk? His music sounds wrong but yet it still sounds right. It’s hard to explain but it’s beyond perfect. He epitomizes what being a jazz pianist ought to be.
Thankfully Hans Groiner has corrected the wrong notes in Monk's tunes. ua-cam.com/video/51bsCRv6kI0/v-deo.html
He’s the same level of genius as Hendrix
OMG, this is outstanding! Many thanks for the post!
It's funny. Watching him play, you'd think he was a complete amateur. His finger positioning is horrendous. He slurs his notes all over the place. But so much of it is deliberate and contributes to his timeless sound. Really, quite an experience watching him play.
That was simply superb!! I enjoyed the camera angles and colorization and of course best of all Monk. Fine musicians! 👍🏾
Epistrophy is a masterpiece 😎
Have you seen the sheet music ?
@@peterdodson4685 no
Thelonious Monk:Musical scientist AND entertainer-in the most honest way possible.
When I hear Monk play, I often think about the critics (and other musicians)who said that he couldn't play the instrument.
There was a lot of that in the 1960s, referring to Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. Didn't sure out, did it? They even called Eric Dolphy "anti-jazz," for which I have no words. Monk had technique, and for whatever Monkish reasons he focused it in on his music, Genius.
I'm still studyin drums & play with a few musos who criticise everyone as if they r the best on the planet , they r deluded & dead borin olde farts to operate with 💩🤡
@@meckel1271oh Well, the thing is that every new musician that creates something innovative is normally "outlawed" by the conservative critics, I guess that even people like Jarrett was criticized at the beginning, or well, remember Cecil Taylor... Washing dishes
the critics were right, for the most part
Mingus said"...Monk plays wrong right..."
I love Monk❤❤❤
Nice to see this colorised too and very clear
Legends!! Thanks for the enhanced video and sound! this is really good! cool fun performance...cool how Monk goes off in his own world at 6:42..and Rouses improvisation was almost as if he was in a room all by himself..✨👍 these guys could just play several different songs in one, whatever came to mind,,And make it work. 🐦
mr thelonious usted logro q ame el jazz por completo
Fantastic…
So what say about his playingt?That's what jazz is all about.Excellent music.
This jus made me feel a lot better after getting sucked into overwhelming thoughts about the current state of the world 😅
adore this. It sounds like Charlie is flat 1:00 but I know these guys know what their doing. (ugly beauty)..and then sixteen minutes later it happens again! 17:17
I LOVE! MUSIC GOOD!
OOPSIE CAPS
I miss the black n white au Denmark version of this 🥲
Thanks for upload. Best thing I've seen in months
I love the way they used to record this stuff. Notice the drums have 1 overhead small diaphragm condenser mic, and nothing on the kick. Couple of other mid-large condenser mics for the others, and we're done. Today's music is so over processed and mixed down, it's a shame. Less is more.
I don't see what the big deal is to have clearer recordings with more control. I love the charm of these old videos for sure, but I do love how clean the recordings are nowadays. Especially if you want to transcribe this kind of material. It's also 2021 and the importance of feeling the kick drum has skyrocketed which I also I think is amazing.
@@LoveandHavoc tame impala's front man (sole producer and writer) has made many tracks with just 3 mics on the drums. The kick sounds amazing. It's not about hearing, or not hearing the kick. It's about hearing the kit as a natural whole instrument. Not a bunch of EQd and filtered pieces mixed back down with meticulous precision to the point where it doesn't even sound real anymore.
That's all...
@@paaao no I totally vibe with that sentiment too. It doesnt need 2 mics on every drum. I understand what youre saying. Also P.S....huuuuugggeee Tame Impala fan. He uses a SM57 for the kick too...total genius. The drum sounds on the latest album sound so nice. I know Kevin spends most of his time with that.
@@LoveandHavoc Only thing I feel that's sort of detrimental is the inability of folks these days to keep time on their own, intuitively. Not like, musician-level feel but just a general sense of the beat. Since we're spoon fed 4 on the floor all day every day, no one has rhythm anymore lol
Absolute genius !!!
Incredible!!
Thanks, thanks for all, Monk is god
Larry Gales!!
Charlie Rouse, Charlie Rouse!
This is one of the most swinging rhythm sections ever . Monk alone is swing. The right cats with him pick up on it. This band makes me want to stand up and dance. This is SWING.
not swing music. SWING!
VERY TRUE 😊!
Respect.
Soy totalmente principiante en el jazz pero monk embruja con el sonidazo que tiene... Por cierto ahora me gusta más el contrabajo al escuchar el solo del contrabajista
Charlie Rouse 🙏🔥🙇🔥
I love the old school suits 🙏🔥👊😎
Monk’s pinky ring is super slick, too
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8:22 Bass Solo 🙇🔥🎶🎶
11:25 Drum Solo 🙇🙏🔥🔥🎶🎶
14:23 Bridge 🙏😌🎶🔥
genius!
Ben Riley's solo
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20:05 was oddly wholesome lol
久々にモンク聞いたけど、やっぱ変な親父だよねモンクはw でも演奏は面白いgood!!
The only time he dances is when Charlie Rouse is on his solos😁😁.
ヒゲダン(Offical髭男dism)のベースの楢さん(楢崎誠さん)がミックスナッツの演奏中(2番頭のブレイクのところ)にベース置いて踊り出すのって個人的にはセロニアス・モンクさんへのオマージュだと思っていますw
Genius
Great dancer too.
does Larry Gales even touch thumb position in his solo?? LOVE IT
f in g amazing.
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Is there an albumn or DVD of this live performance?
14:14 is the most impressive part. Incredible
I wonder if Family Guy's theme borrowed its melody from Lulu's Back In Town. Because it's very similar.
I don't think it sounds similar. But if they did borrow, I wouldn't be surprised. We all know Seth loves jazz :-)
HD! 😳
I'm struggling so hard to understand baba Monk's music. Everyone hears genius & I'm not sure what I'm missing. I've searched resources to describe his allure & brilliance, but i just don't hear what everyone else hears yet. Anyone who sees this with any suggestions on a breakdown of his approach is MORE than welcome to share. Maybe I'm just too orthodox of a guy to understand his avant-garde approach. Utmost respect.
I don't know what the definition of "genius" is, but I might be able to help you enjoy it a bit better if your background is familiar to me. What's your musical background?
@@mysterium364 Thanks for the reply! Okay, this might be rough, but I'm a primarily self-taught/play by ear gospel keyboardist (steeped in the Black American Pentecostal & baptist traditions mostly) with a rudimentary understanding of music theory.
@@Tutnese That's pretty cool. I know not a lot about that tradition. But from what I have heard of it, it uses a lot of the same chords in similar ways as found in classical music, which is what I studied as a child.
When I listened to Thelonious Monk about a year ago, the music sounded random. I didn't hate it, I just couldn't understand the extended chords he used. Then, I spent a year listening almost exclusively to the music of Alexander Scriabin. Now, the extended chords that Monk uses sound all natural and non-dissonant to me. They make sense in the context of the songs.
But it might be easier for you to make the connection, because from what I have heard, Monk came from a similar background as you. Classical is further removed. Good luck on your musical journey!
@@Tutnese If you want an example for what music I listened to so that I could learn to accept extended chords, you can listen to this recording (timestamp included). The whole thing is great, but I would like to recommend no. 7 specifically (the track at the timestamp). If you like it, you can listen to the whole album, and ask me for more. ua-cam.com/video/v-BbYY41UIk/v-deo.html
Besides the theory monk it's the tempo :everything is always unexpected, you don't know what and when will happen next. So you start to be danced by him and you pushed and pull around. Then, yoi start to understand his language, his chords, and it is really just him (maybe bill evans?) There is no other pianist you can catch by listening at two seconds of his music
Viva MONK
Demonious ataca colorido!
20:05.Ben does Monk.
Can someone please bring back the playfulness in jazz....It's gotten way too serious and academic. There is much wisdom-while having fun-in performance s such as these
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I'll do my best, gimme 20 years plz
Couldn't agree more... our sick society worships the intellect.
So true! There are a couple moments in here where the music genuinely makes me laugh out loud, cuz some of Monk’s choices and phrasings are so quirky and odd but so EXACTLY perfect. Like Chapelle or Pryor doing a joke setup that makes you kinda cringe and go “uh oh, where’s he going with this?…” and then sticks the landing perfectly with a perfect punchline, that you never would have thought of, but it’s phrased PERFECTLY given what led to it, and you can’t help but laugh at the joke itself and the genius and balls it took to take that risk and actually pull it off. It really has some of those same creative contours. And in both cases, there’s no need to over analyze it or pick it apart. Rather, just have the experience; let it was over us and be IN IT, and suspend disbelief for a moment and just listen and FEEL! That’s the whole point after all eh? 🙃
tell me that the family guy intro aint a sample of lulus back in town tho
Lol! Never noticed that
This whole performance is so damn good but those drums after the bass solo (11:27)...
Somethin else
18:07 🙏🔥 such a wonderful video 💖
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20:48 🔥🎹🔥🎹🔥🎹
22:00 👊😎💪🔥
I don't know if it is true, but I have heard that Miles Davis would have stated that he did not like to play with Thelonius, because "Thelonius plays wrong chords".
Tal vez después de eso dijo:
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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"It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong." ~ Miles Davis
Nah, that's not true. Miles respected Monk's playing.
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jazz Mr.Monk 🙏
The colorization is annoying when it spazzes out, but the music is great!
06:09 😮
11:27
Question does the family guy theme quote the head of Lulu's back in town ? 1:08
I’m glad I’m not the only one, it took me a minute to realize what it was haha
Simple Great 🤓
25:14 🙏😎🙇🔥
25:52 🙄😳🎹🔥🙏
26:26 😎🙏🔥🎶🎹🙇
26:51 💪😎🙏🙇🔥🎹🎶 !*!*
27:20
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band name's?
Horns. ? who and 2?
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1:23 Family guy
The sax off tune and monk loading with flat and sharp note all over the place....lol
Marvelous music, a real gem. Only the colorization is - as always - stupid.
family guy
The music is amazing. The colour... no, that's just wrong. :\
The video is also online in black and white, if you prefer that
@@Krisselbeewhere?