www.buymeacoffee.com/cleantone 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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 !
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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!
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
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.
