Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk

[NLFilms]

ernie henry on alto saxophone!!!

[Tonytitan]

This is magic!!!

[JazzVideoGuy]

@Tonytitan Yes! Monk = Music.

[blissett82]

sono stanco delle pubblicità di youtube!!!

[10Euphoria]

I'm in Love. Btw..I always called him "The Lonious Monk"...haha. O.o Sorry. :)

[fxtnplstcs]

THELONIOUS MONK IS THE COOL OF COOL

[TheHarmonicPulse]

Can someone PLEASE tell me what the name of the track and group is that played the composition from the first :01-:34 of the video? Thanks!

[fender1325]

@TheHarmonicPulse The song from :01-:34 is "Cannonball Adderley - Know What I Mean?"  I had to go on the search for it too a while back! Beautiful isn't it?

[JackBass199]

@TheHarmonicPulse Bill Evans & Cannonball Adderly - Know What I Mean

[Sambuca6178]

I don't think Monk would have tolerated some stupid advertisement before this video could be shown on youtube. VERY disrespectful if you ask me. Monk is just too awesome!

[sliccmoufschalaa]

@Sambuca6178 You are absolutly correct!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you imagine the response Miles Davis would have????

[michirican123]

What is the intro song at 0:01

[d3v4]

@michirican123 yeah what's the intro of the song? did you get the answer already

[michirican123]

@d3v4 What's up man the name of the song is: Know What I Mean? (Re-Take 7) It's on Cannonball Adderly and Bill Evans Album named: Know What I Mean?  Peace!

[HUNHORV]

Thank you!!

[HUNHORV]

Whats the song name from 0:35 ?

[chameleonday]

@HUNHORV

Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues Are - track two on Brilliant Corners

[cjoey39]

Fantastic video!! This historical record is priceless! You Tube is the greatest!! Joey Vaughan "World Blues Attack"

[zerojazdy]

WTF is with the ads!

[bob4247]

Monk is still magical to listen to, even after all these years.

Thanks Bret for bringing this to us.

[fender1325]

For whoever is wondering the Intro is "Know What I Mean" with Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans. I had to ask Jazz Video Guy too, I love that piano intro!

[glummox]

Yes, does anyone know? It's an exquisite intro.

[gwhtf4]

Thelonious Monk...amazing musician.

[ricv64]

jazzbo collins ?

[welovethejazz]

What is the tittle of the first song?

[brilliantcorners]

So Orrin, why does Pannonica keep rising in pitch? Did the tape stretch?

[kevinherbert]

It's Monk Punk....

[RGBLackson]

awesome

[shultoncypher]

does anyone know the very first song that comes out?

[varscht]

Even if jazz was no longer evolving and there were no new jazz musicians ever again, the depth and breadth of the material that has already been recorded, would be enough to bathe me in sheer delight for the rest of my life.

[romanspas]

cha indeed

[hittuspkixayah]

monk , mingus cecil and duke ellington  4sum greats composings !! cha

[jumpsteady1]

the great thing about videos like these is we get to learn about giants that shape the music we play today, The bad thing is the pretentiousness of people who argue on these walls with self righteousness. listen to the music and stop talking big and arguing

[extrahustle]

nobody on here has said it any better ;-)

[YellowYackets]

yeah I agree, he doesn't fear to go beyond the piano rules and theories that our teachers kill us to learn...

[jagdevsg]

@jumpsteady1 there is no button for 10 thumbs up...but i would click it!

[4854derrida]

"Coltrane states: 'Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles [Davis]: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you'" [Wiki].

[yragntman]

oi - Orrin Keepnews gets to write his story about Monk. Forget about all the under payment of royalties - meh. At least we have some glimpses of Monk. Brilliant Corners = Brilliant in every way.

[banger6]

what piece is playing from 00:00 to 00:34?

[barkofink]

cannonball adderley with bill evans

"know what i mean ?" intro

[usfins]

Excellent . Jazzvideo Guy. Ty

[alkh3myst]

You no longer have to listen to this windbag/parasite spend ten minutes talking about something he could never create. The actual recording is also posted here now, and you don't have to be fooled like I was the first time I followed this link, searching for Monk's masterpiece.

[5737irvingpark]

@alkh3myst So , you're saying record producers are useless ? it could have been a better interview and a note saying it was an interview may have been better. And saying producers are not in charge of anything... not so in my experience which includes 38 years in the music biz.

[alkh3myst]

@ 5737irvingpark: Well, in MY experience in the industry, a great many producers are nothing more than parasites. Some of them have made key contributions. But some of them have ruined careers.

[5737irvingpark]

That is true in cases, especially back in the day. Just like the movie biz, labels pretty much owned you no matter if you were the artist or producer, whatever. That changed by the early 70's . The video was an ego moment. That said, Keepnews bought a lot of artists visions to fruition. Many artists know exactly what they want and many more need the direction.Unfortunately studio time costs and a good producer can move things along.

[thekaiserchief]

is the guy being interviewed thelonious monk?

[alkh3myst]

No, it's record producer Orrin Keepnews. A waste of perfectly good film. If you really want to get a good cinematic breakdown on Monk, get a hold of a copy of "Straight, No Chaser". It was produced by Clint Eastwood, and is mesmerizing. Much better than listening to this windbag act as if he was actually in charge of something.

[Simonomon2]

The guy is a douchebag in the beginning "you do whatever you want, sir"

[BebopAuthor]

I'm caught, in the freeze-frame of the fifties and when I want to be where I was when I was with Al Haig, the chosen pianist of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, going up and down the street, loving Erroll Garner, Ben Webster, Miles, Dizzy, Roy, Ray and Potts..for limo for us...Nica took care of Monk so damn sweet.

[BebopAuthor]

Jazz Video Guy, perhaps you are still on vacation but you need to know sight unseen I love the journey you take me on back to "THEN."

[nearenough3]

Gift for gab.

[Borgrimder]

JazzVideoGuy: Thanks for all your videos, I see at least 20 Videos about Billy Taylor and other brilliant jazz guys. When you link that videos, you're showing new generations (or attemps of new generation like me) music and sounds simply necesary for us.

Thanks, thanks, and more thanks :)

[dabobohio2]

someone post just a giggilo please

[Ryanshinobi]

If you can hear it, it is beautiful. If you can't hear it, then it makes no sense. Monk is like an abstract painter, either you get it, or you don't.

[gravenstein75]

Waltz For Debby - Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans

credits are at the end of this video.

[spyderman57]

brilliant corners, a brilliant tune

[MRjeremy317]

any body kno the name of the VERY 1st song playing in the beginning???

[jamesmutan1]

Monk used to say "Its not what you play... but what you dont play"

Love this guy... he was a music magician, hehe

[billystrayhornsghost]

Man, brilliant corners is the joint.

[fiddlercrab3]

"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians." Absolutely beautiful!

[alkh3myst]

The two abilities are located in the same region of the brain. I'm disappointed by this though. It's like popping what you think is "Casablanca" in your DVD player, and getting Roger Ebert talking about "Casablanca".

[brenisacorgi]

No, it's not.

[alkh3myst]

Monk could say more on his piano in five minutes than Orrin Keepnews could say with a billion words. I don't need to listen to these parasites still trying to get some blood out of a genius' dead body. Did you see "Straight No Chaser"? I was infuriated, watching Teo Macero's condescension and sarcasm with this troubled musical giant. Macero and Keepnews both should have been KISSING MONK'S SHOES.

[brenisacorgi]

What the hell are you talking about?

I was referring to this: "The two abilities are located in the same region of the brain"

No, it's not.

[alkh3myst]

The frontal and parietal lobes handle most of the workload of spatial-temporal reasoning, essential to mathematical AND musical performance. Brain scans have conclusively demonstrated this. Other research has shown that students skilled in music have consistently higher math scores on standardized tests. Read more, write less. "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin

[llinkmang]

These "brain scans" as you refer to them confirm nothing but neural activity in general - you might associate those lobes with musical performance, but let's not exaggerate. The cerebellum is at least equally important, as are many other parts of the brain. I wish I'd done my homework better. Either way enjoy music more and dwindle on semi-relevant factual details less ;)

[alkh3myst]

Who asked you to try to tell me what to do with my life? I've been a musician since I was 9 years old; I think I enjoy it just fine. Go mind your business, man.

[llinkmang]

I wasn't telling you what to do with your life any more than you were telling us, dear alchemist. I was merely expressing my dissatisfaction with some of your bold statements. The right to act quasi-omniscient isn't reserved just for you, or anyone. Would you disagree that being critical of one another is a good thing?

[kevinherbert]

alkh3myst: power junky & quasi polymatch R U.....words fail you......

[alkh3myst]

I think this is a compliment. Thanks.

[kevinherbert]

fiddlergrab3:

Tell us (in no more than 3 words) why it's 'absolutely beautiful ' .....

[fiddlercrab3]

Go explore fractals.

[alkh3myst]

Wow, that's so astute. A solo is just like a fractal iteration. Whether you play a melody line, do a chord-based, or modal solo is just like the parameters of the iteration. The result is a thing of infinite complexity, just like a Mandelbrot or Julia set. That's heavy man, are you also a musician who's also good at math?

[fiddlercrab3]

I am.

Take those ideas and run with them- it sounds like you've done your homework, and could probably write some interesting music. Have you ever read "Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in composition" by the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis? It's a heavy, dry read, and I'm not always the biggest fan of his music, but his ideas are phenomenal.

[alkh3myst]

No, I've never even heard of him. I'll look into it though, thanks.

[gkrkr]

@fiddlercrab3 excactly!

[supahsekzy]

@fiddlercrab3 It's also true. Music, for all its human and imperfect qualities, is superbly mathematical.

[kevinherbert]

@supahsekzy : whatever floats your boat.....

[markobegus]

@fiddlercrab3 i dissagre with thesis that music is actualy mathematics...I disagre with mathematics in general haha. take care!

[akbarbaby]

@fiddlercrab3 Absolutely true.

[LooMinn]

Thanks JazzVideoGuy. What a rich treasure trove of 'inside' information. The level of musicianship back then was amazing...and those cats read!

[sheissocoldiamsocold]

no entiendo que dice!!

[Scr0d3]

so thelonious monk banged the New World Orders daughter or relative?

[anhacus]

Doris Duke had a weakness for piano players, too. They would play for her in her mansion in New Jersey, then she'd give them the full measure of her appreciation, sometimes under the piano. LOL.

[FeloniousMonk1234]

right on... ha ha... he was always avant garde...lol

[edwin00420]

he died at her residence...

[neurolinguistics]

that's funny! I was thinking the same thing while i was watching the video. Monk was doing to her what the order has been doing to the masses...hilarious! only speculating people.

[heifetz003]

I have to say that I believe he was in fact there at the session, mostly due to checking the town that he works for website, and seeing he is indeed old enough.

[geridg]

thks for this post Jazzvidguy. Very cool!

[VB05]

ugh i can't take how this guy talks...like how he smacks his lips in between sentences ahhhh

[anhacus]

This is characteristic of someone who has diabetes, and of course, old age.

[bluemonk82]

"Brilliant Corners" was recorded 26 times I heard. This shows the kind of discipline and virtuosity one must have had to play Monk's music. All the pictures from the liner notes of "Brilliant Corners" show great frustration I think from this session. It wasn't that the musicians couldn't play it, it was more a matter of actually understanding it.

That will forever be Monk's legacy. He made even the greatest jazz musicians break out in cold sweats.

[AcridPeter]

The guy says right here 24 times.

[amd1588]

can we PLEASE bring back Jazz?

[alkh3myst]

It hasn't gone anywhere. Critics and ivory-tower intellectuals have tried to play this con game that Jazz is dead, I think because living Jazz is beyond their control. As long as they can convince us what Jazz is, they take the power away from the master musicians who create it. But I think that Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny, Cassandra Wilson, Joe Lovano and many others completely disprove this. Jazz is alive and well, and STILL evolving.

[blotchy67]

@alkh3myst Of course Jazz is still alive and well. . .just not good jazz. Kenny G, Pat Methany and Joe Lovano are talented musicians but shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Monk, Trane, Bird, and Mingus.

[bob4247]

@blotchy67 True Dat.

[xxxslayerxxx666]

@alkh3myst and rock has evolved sooo much too.....listen to animals as leaders or chimp spanner(they are both instrumental) and of course classical music like stockhausen and messiaen!

[eatty]

@alkh3myst Christian Scott comes to mind also! Can't agree more with you!

[childofprosperity]

I have to post the obvious. Wow dude you were there?

[cajondg]

Top Stuff! This is when You Tube becomes revolutionary. My compliments for this great work. Monk is my idol and Brilliant Corners my favourite record.

[wordpolice]

Pettiford was not only spiteful, he was drunk. I was at the session an also noted that Max Roach was not being very helpful. A little jealousy, perhaps? I remember Monk saying to me, during a break in the session, " Why is this happening to me?"

[jaquito1946]

You were *really* at the session? Fantastic. Can you tell me more about you, and the session?

Thanks; Jacques

[arandunagusimm]

Check out his user page on YouTube and follow the links. You won't get any real answers but it's entertaining.

[dreadtodred]

wow you were there?

[bluemonk82]

I'm going to call bullshit on that one. You weren't at the "Brilliant Corners" session. I think this is something you're going to have to prove, because I sure as hell don't believe you.

[tandmark]

This is the 13th episode of the Orrin Keepnews interviews, in which he discusses recording some of the top jazz albums of the '50s and '60s. Brilliant Corners, by Thelonius Monk, is definitely a top album. Like, I've got every note memorized, man. A great album. A great interview.

[BoboBerlinsky]

A Wonderful lesson of Jazz History...I play and study classic Jazz...Thanks,...JazzVidGuy!

[nakajazz]

This is the best Tube channel.

Thanks dude.

[JazzVideoGuy]

Thank you.

Stay tuned. The best is yet to come.

[dreadtodred]

thanks. love the insight

[aselmerius]

Brilliant- so it is!

[gamoonbat]

"Brilliant Corners" has always been my favorite Monk album.

[fuckingharpsichord]

!!!!!

[vidimah]

great ******88stars