Thelonious Monk - Satin Doll - Berliner Jazztage 1969 (1/6) 

Inimitable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, immeasurable, indelible.

one of the most beautiful versions

Monk lived in a parallel world. Me makes us discover so much from this composition. I have heard from so many interpretors, mostly very honourable - but only Monk finds a composition in a composition. I wonder if the Duke heard Monk playing this?

Wow...love it. That soft stride and all those tinkling Monkish melodies.

Oh, Monk. Such beautiful playing!

I love the tempo: different!

Improvisa sobre la melodia y crea una nueva melodia paralela a la original. No improvisa sobre los acordes, la melodia siempre esta presente. Un genio original, se extraña.

You can see music going through monk. A guy beyond the rest.

Love it! Monk is so unique; who else can do what he does with this tune?

creative brilliance incarnate. so fresh and funkae

Really beautiful!-His simply seeming-but extraordianary ideas of interpretation! Like a Modern-Jazz-Machine... Greetings from Germany

Very rare for Thelonious to play someone else's song. Shows how much he respects the Duke.

Y no se sale del tema, ni armónicamente ni melódicamente, como en el flamenco, que debe de entender la letra, en el jazz de debe de entender sobre qué tema se está improvisando...genio total y absoluto!!!

still love it!!

He was quite a good stride pianist

Thelonious MONK October 10, 1917 - February 17, 1982 - Shared on G+ October 10, 2016.

ACIDO!

1955 - Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington - 8 songs but Satin Doll is not one of them. Monk also played with the Ellington Orchestra at Newport I think in '62.

super cool, never seen this footage. is there more?

I NEED the link for the whole live please someone... Thanks

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Dos interpretaciones geniales la de Petrucciani y Thelonius. Grandes dioses en la Tierra.

I hope I didn't accidentally hit the dislike button.

Is there any CD that contain THIS satindoll? I want it so badly.

M-dog fukin with the rhythm again. So cool. And the notes. Izz mistake or just plans for weirdness?

I believe the tune is pure Strayhorn.

Because he rarely plated others work.....his words and the words of his contemporaries. I didn't say he never did. Maybe he did that in this performance because he was playing to Germans who may not have known his music as well as New Yorkers.

when pianists interpret other people compositions ,composers will make it there own scaring the orginal

θελόνιους :D

thill-OWN-ee-us

th"eh" lon (as in lonely) ious

@Soulnik I dig.

@15oldmen Self-inflicted illnesses?

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