Thelonious Monk Quartet Monterey Jazz Festival, California 09/21/63 Charlie Rouse (ts) Thelonious Monk (p) Edward "Butch" Warren (b) Frankie Dunlop (d) I'm Getting Sentimental Over You Well You Needn't Light Blue Criss Cross Epistrophy
I saw Monk at Monterey , I was 14 I had all his records but to see HIM live it change my life. when he passed I still had my records. Jazz for me jazz stop progressing. Monk was a gentleman, a friend to some took the heat for some . He was a giant among midgets, l love him and always will.
Monk was a genius in all aspect of his life,husband , father, friend and musical GENIUS ! Read his bio.. he beat the odds his entire life, I love him and always will.
The 60s were a very rough time for jazz back then who went from heroes to practically zeroes in the new reality of jazz at the time, which was not nearly as popular as it was 10 years previously. So many had left for Europe and jazz clubs were closing, 52nd St was gone etc. Festivals like Monterey and Newport were what kept it and still keep it going, although most of the festivals around now are just trash in the US.
monk gets up and dances to rouses solo on the film of this and barely gets back to the piano for his part. stunning. peak of artistry. thanks for posting this.
@@charlesduckettjr.800 I love Monk, unfortunately, he had a progressive mental illness that got the best of him near the end of his life. All of behavior was because of this... he couldn't help himself.
@@timbrenner4709 all behaviour was due to his mental illness? If you actually believe that then you don't know Monk very well . "Couldn't help himself"...what a ludicrous, uninformed, third hand recycled gossipy thing to say. Monk danced because he felt like it...haven't you ever felt like dancing? Does that make you uncontrollably mentally ill? Man oh man
A young (23) Steve Swallow was a last minute replacement on acoustic bass, due to the regular bassist missing his flight. Just heard this on Pablo Held Investigates.
Thanks for the upload. Thel was one of my father's musical idol with Art Tatum. - About Thel . . . during WWII, he was part of the French Underground Resistance - apparently he would psych himself by playing for an hour or two then would at night go out on a rampage against the NAZIs. We love you Thel and appreciate what you did. Be well . . . hum and-a see you at the Midnight Oasis Jazz Club ;-) x
Lyn, you are delirious. During WW2 Monk was in Coleman Hawkins' band in the USA. maybe you are thinking of samuel beckett who was in the french resistance
@@11thNote i know the album notes, it's called hyperbole: do you also believe he had a pet cow that had the run of his apartment on W 63rd St? Read the biography by Robin Kelley if you want to know actual facts about Monk
Great music. I wonder how Monk got all the group playing in this special swingy stile. It's a unique kind of swing in all his music. Did he tell the drummer: You're supposed to play like this? I don't think so. But something brought out the best in all the players. Charlie Rouse. Does anyone know who is playing the drums? And in the commentaries here there are two bids on who's the bassist. Steve Swallow or John Ore. What's true?
I was there for at the festival for both sets. The bassist was not either John Ore (misidentified on the CDs, as Robin Kelly notes--Ore had left the band early in 1963) or Steve Swallow. It was in the next year 1964 that Steve Swallow was at Monterey with Monk. The bassist is definitely Butch Warren. You can see that it is him, and more important, he has a distinctive style that is evident throughout, especially in his solos. On "Light Blue" part of the performance is piano/bass interplay with Monk, and Warren is very much the same on this piece at Newport in July and at the famous Lincoln Center concert in December. Warren was with Monk for about a year into early 1964, then Rouse did not have a regular bassist until Larry Gales later in the year and Gales was there a long time, with Ben Riley as drummer. Monk always had great groups and I loved Warren's playing but feel the same about Gales.
