A lot of Saxaphone players came through Monk`s school. Trane, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins. But Hawkins was the leader of that band, and there were many others. BUT!!!!...As you stated the great and underrated Charlie Rouse ..played Monk the way Monk would play if he put the horn in his own mouth. Monk came out of Rouse like the shit out our ass.
one day...years ago...I was an architecture student in Chicago...working feverishly on my final projects at the end of the semester...for some reason that I now no longer remember I needed to take a cab...I was stressing...had a raging headache...got that cab...the driver was playing some music...as I sat there in that cab I could feel the tension just draining out of my soul...my headache melted away...I asked the cabbie what was the music...he said, "Monk"...been a fan ever since
I was graduate student in mid 1980s busy studying for an exam. My head is full around 2am and almost ready to sleep and “Round midnight” plays on the radio. This was the Live at Jazz Wshop version. All of a sudden I was awake. The following Saturday I went and got the double LP👍🏾🎶😇
I love bebop its so spiritual this is the blues too.. thelonius is amazing. Charlie Rouses phrasing is out of this world. Any woodwind player should hear this. This is pure jazz. Love the acoustic bass solo. The drummer swings. Little set. Lol. Jazz at its best.
Thelonius Monk's music was 20 year ahead of its time in Jazz evolution . Therefore at his peak of career very few people understood his music, acords & rythm. One of the greatest Jazz creators.
If Charlie Rouse ever misplaced or wasted a note, I've never heard it. Whether he's interpreting the melody or improvising away from it he just nails it every time....and as for his tone !
Right? He plays the notes between the notes. (Oh, heh, Dan JV said that already... I second the motion). Man, at 06:50 ish Monk just stops and poor Mr. Gales is just hanging on by a couple of finger tips (actually, quite literally) and he reels it back in (a bad pun if you think reel-to-reel recording, but I'm reaching). Then Mr. Gales goes into that gorgeous, minimal drum solo with brushes for uhhh how many bars was that? and everyone just pops back in on beat as if nothing but a couple of bars went by.
Charlie Rouse est ici à son sommet, lulu's back in town est un pur chef d'œuvre, Monk nous promène dans sa jungle de sonorités inattendues, et nous sommes subjugués par tant de talent Monk, ne sait rien faire d'autre que du Monk et c'est un pur bonheur !!
Here comes Charlie Rouse...Monk had to get up and dance when he played. Nobody else could get away with this. Monk style is so deviant it cry's out JAZZ, not pretty yet beautiful, not smooth but still stylish. And those words can't sum up the appeal of his music, he just touches a place like no other. Maybe i'm crazy as he was, I have listen to his playing at least twice a year. :-D
Monk danced to conduct the orchestra on how the beat should be going and to allow them to stretch out without his piano in the way. Actually in the late 19th and early 20th century it was common for African American bands to have a dancing conductor some who danced through every selection with the same idea
You better know how to play in any of Monks groups! Monk could lay out at any time...Rouse continues with or without piano... Rouse is probably one of best saxophone interpreter of Monks music.
Un cuarteto de lujo, un concierto de libro, Majistral los 4 músicos del siglo 20, nos dejaron mucho grabado para disfrutar las nuevas generaciones, espero que la rueda de la vida y de él arte de la música del jazz nos siga dando músicos de esta calidad.
For non-French people, this is clearly taken from Jazz 6, the best music show on french TV, hosted by Philippe Adler. It was so late at night that I had to record it on VHS... I may dig in my own collection
No, I don't get Monk at all... He must be taking the Mickey (or the Monk-ey) out of the piano... I'm surprised the piano doesn't just get up and walk out... :))
I think the appreciation can be taught. Just like with classical music. People have to understand where it comes from. What the Blues is and what Duke Ellington has to do with it. But also why it is great to have this form of individual expression.
I think that two great monsters of Jazz met in that session. C. Rouse is one of the best for me, and I love T. Monk.. great fusion. Respect and please, listen... don't speak anymore :D
Monk bailaba cuando el grupo estaba tocando bien de verdad, con el swing y en el sentido en el que el consideraba buen jazz. Este cuarteto ,en mi opinion ,fué el que mejor sonó de todos los que tuvo monk ( de los que se tienen documentos grabados.) . El jazz de Monk no va de virtuosismo, va de otras cosas menos obvias .. va de sorprender al oido no de deslumbrarlo, fijate la cara de Monk en el min 4: 12 cuando charlie rouse se inventa eso sobre las armonias de Lulu's Back In Town , lo deja pensando.....
Check out ROUND MIDNIGHT on MONK LIVE AT THE IT CLUB. My wife is a pianist, and she knows music. When I introduced her to Monk, he just blew her away, she understood everything he did, and said his technique is some of the best she ever heard, and that his compositions are on the highest level.
Dug it. I was barely out of high school. Snuck into Shelly's Mannhole in Hollywood, California. Charles Lloyd Quartet fronted Monk's trio. I became part of Monk's history. To this day his music set the standard for what jazz piano should be about.
By the way, I wonder whose idea it was to have Charlie Rouse enter the room at the end of Monk, Gales and Riley stating the first portion of the theme to "Lulu's..."?
I think he's being punished by Thelonious. He's not doing it "right". Look around @18:35! I think Ben is Great! And Monk is too high for me to comprehend. And that's why Monk is my fave.
Other clips from the same tour (e.g. in Copenhagen) show him using a mounted and floor tom, so I would guess there was a problem with the drums not showing up.
@@RTFan52 That's why I think he's being punished, lol! But I kinda hope you're may be right. FYI, when I said "Monk is too high for me," I meant on a musical, intellectual level.
When I was a kid a jazz buff told me Monk and his apparent simple single note sound was very deceptive. Piano players say what he does is impossible and he is the greatest( after Art Tatum of course). One has to be a piano player to know.
