Do you understand this music or is it just not the point to understand it? I sometimes feel as if I was seeing an abstract painting when listening to jazz.
@chistorro12 Having a theory knowledge and digging into more than just the surface really helps you understand and appreciate music, jazz, fusion and classical to be more exact. It'll help you understand more on your particular instrument if you play one too.
Man, people mistake eletric guitar for bass guitar... sax or trumpet are far away from general people knowledge... I am saying that as a music teacher... It is really sad...
seeing this with almost a million views makes me feel good. either more kids are diggin on this or older folks are learning how to work a youtube. either way i'm optimistic for the future...
No one like musical ignorance, but at the same time no one like musical arrogance. Believe it or not, every type of music has its redeeming qualities. Listen to what you love, and accept other people's choices.
@royo90 meh justin bieber's a popular artist. popular artists are not popular for their musicianship, but for the attention they get. Doesn't mean that they are a bad musician, but doesn't mean they're good either. apparently he's doing good at his job because im seeing comments about him all ovr jazz videos, which have nothing at all to do with him.
@cdcase29 The Problem with this is: We accept the coices of other people. But we dont accept that Artists with no talent get all the money and guys that have amazing talent have to work much much harder for earning less, and if they get famous, they only get famous after their death. If every music was free, that would not be a problem. But unfortunatley, it is not. 80$ per evening for a jazz musician with shitloads of talent vs. thousands of $ for an untalented prick per eve, that is unfair!..
@sonick808 People that like the Grateful Dead are musical simpletons that have done or are doing to many DRUGS. lmao If you are a fan of the Dead so be it. But don't compare legitimate musicians to musical children that can barely tune their guitars. Insstead play Hippee land and smoke a doobie maaan while listening to Casy Jones.
i can generate or name any pitch in a total vacuum, without any deviation. That's perfect pitch. My guitar teacher noticed it when i was tuning my guitar without a tuner when i was five or six and started taking lessons; to exact center pitch mind you. It is also a curse, since every sonic deviation in your everday life is like torture.
@sonick808 That´s not having perfect pitch. It is of course a form of autism. You may be able to tune perfectly, but that´s just a secondary effect of your brain. If you had perfect pitch, some sounds wouldn´t be "torture". A minor 2nd interval can sound good or bad, it depends on the context, for example.
@tweenboxyeah "torture" was just conjecture. Of course any interval can be quite pleasing in the proper context. I was flippant with my initial opinion, and it got out of control. Enough. As for PP, you can't generate or name a tone in a vacuum without it. At least this according to 10+ years worth of training on keys and undergrad professors. Sorry for the initial flip comment, but I maintain my >opinion< that this is musically harsh. Time to put this one to bed. Filter on.
@sonick808 ok man, maybe I was a bit harsh too.. maybe you don´t like this piece because it lacks a certain "memorable" or "instant recognisable" melody? just wondering...
@RoganGD i see your point though and i should clarify, it is the odd intervals (firsts/sevenths, minor fifths), lack of melody and noodling in totally different keys (when a key is even discernable) that drive me nuts re: this music. I'm not trying to argue it's historical merits, I just stumbled on the video and made an offhand comment that it made my head hurt. Now Grateful Dead, there's melodious noodling that makes musical sense... my two cents and just an opinion. moving along.
@sonick808 That's understandable, but it has to do with relative pitch, not perfect pitch. I'm not here to judge your taste in music, your claim just didn't make sense to me.
@sonick808 Man are you serious lack of melody. Didn't you hear Monk quote 'Swinging on Nothing' note for note then rip the hell out of it and base his entire solo around that? It's energetic, busy, and even a bit frantic but that's jazz. It's not meant to be nice and neat...
@sonick808 you have autism, not perfect pitch. shut the fuck up and learn more about music and consonance/dissonance before you start trying to act like you know things.
@mbera11 I still have perfect pitch, and I understand the difference between pleasing and displeasing intervals. No one without PP can name or generate tonally perfect notes in a vacuum or tune a guitar all their lives without a tuner. BTW, you should go back and re-read all of your comments; you probably won't notice it, but to anyone else, your degree of negativity is borderline comical. EVERY comment you make is bashing someone. You are a terrible hyprocrite and a miserable SOB
@sonick808 Arguing and expressing dissenting opinions isn't "bashing" or being negative. Sometimes I'm trolling, but not that often. I actually assumed you were trolling at first, because I thought no one could be that self-righteous and smarmy without an intentional desire to cause discord behind it. Apparently you are actually that shitty of a person, though.
@Miloshevits A news producer had me racking my brains for an hour asking me who that Asian classical musician was who played the violin, "he's very famous, everyone knows who he is." Turns out she was talking about Yo-Yo Ma.
When Isaac Stern died, a prominent news anchor at another station objected to my wanting to run the story, saying, "Nobody but you has ever heard of that obscure violinist guy."
@beaprod It's because saxophones are shiny, and the bright light reflecting off of it causes in the old style film a relative area of darkness around the points of over-brightness.
@beaprod Also, the bent tube shape of a saxophone helps to ensure that lights coming from many different possible angles could be reflected into the camera.
My source is Nellie herself but you can verify it in the incredible biography recently released, written by Robin Kelley with the help and blessing of the family
You've got to remember that Dyer's book is a piece of fiction - a beautiful one but fiction none the less - he states in his forward that he was loath to let the truth get in the way of a good story - very little of the Monk piece is based in fact
@kingcake54 Dyer's book is not entirely fiction , it is in fact semi-fiction. I know this as when reading through I cross-referenced whether various incidents in the book where for real or not. To my surprise, some that seemed outlandish did in fact happen.However, I have only your word at the moment about "Melodious Thunk", so unless proven otherwise, you'll excuse me for still thinking it attributed it to Nellie. Cheers
Definitely recommend two books: 1. "Monk..." by Robin Kelley and 2. "Nica's Dream" by David Kastin. And while you read those books, multitask and listen to Monk -- any Monk.
Definitely recommend two books: 1. Monk by Robin Kelley and 2. Nica's Dream by David Kastin. And while you read those book, multitask and listen to Monk -- any Monk.
One of my favorite jazz quotes is about Monk, from none other than Chico Hamilton, Monk's drummer: “Man, I’ve played with piano players who played all the white keys, and I’ve played with piano players who played all the black keys. But I never played with no motherfucker who played in between the cracks.”
To Marie 144 cats: Thank you for your input, now I understand why 'Picaso's' Art was so , ahhh!, ''so bad correct.'' Glad Van Gough didn't have two ears, he'd be in big trouble.
If you are a musician you will no that in jazz there are no wrong notes. If you are playing music, and some one tells you you are playing wrong, tell them " I am playing JAZZ!!"
There are no wrong notes here fools...He's improvising. The great artists such as Monk, Tatum, Waller, Ellington and Brubeck, etc. would improvise the notes as they played. You listen to to much of the modern music with simple beats and redundant lyrics.
Sorry, but I strongly disagree with you marie144cats, mabolzich actually made a valid point. If you study the art of Bebop you'd realize that it is a very expressive form of jazz that often incorporates consonance AND dissonance combined with strong improvisation; which to an untrained ear would seem to be very wrong when in fact it is absolutely right from a musical perspective. That is why it is so difficult for the average listener to grasp. Btw, I am a musician. ;-)
YES! I have always felt that Monk often approached something not of this world. His melodies were so simple, yet, at the same time, they sounded so awesome and spiritual that he must have had talent on loan from the GODS! I agree- Monk is life!
The piano solo (1:59-3:14) is one of those transcendent moments in jazz, impossible to replicate. In the mid-1960s, at a very early age, I saw TM a few times in Baltimore and Washington and concluded that, as with certain artists and writers, you either get him or you don't--and language doesn't quite explain the appeal.
Kendrick wishes he was as smoovvv as Thelonious!!!!! You'll probably never say Perkins was one of the best bball players ever. But for ever you'll say Monk was one of the best keyboard player EVER!!!!
For those of you saying what he is playing is wrong... You watch too much modern music. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WRONG MUSIC! THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF MUSIC! I'M IN SEVETH GRADE AND I KNOW THAT!
@marie144cats Well actually, there is. The way thelonious structured his music was soo wrong, but it still sounded amazing and original. If you, as a seventh grader, played music that was deemed "wrong" or "incorrect" it would still be "wrong." Would it be GOOD? perhaps, but as a young musician you won't have the insight to deem what is "good." (unless you're a prodigy). There is also bad correct music, like some new music. Correct and Incorrect exist, but so do good and bad, and dont correlate.
@WonderfulMrShyne Are you the deciding factor on all things relating to what's right and wrong? There's no such thing as a "wrong" note, when it comes to listening. Sure, you could play a note that would be "wrong" on paper, playing a seventh over a dominant seventh, etc, but, as Bird himself said, "when I'm improvising, my wrong notes become the right notes". There's no such thing as a wrong note. If it swings, it swings. Enough said.
@flyingsnow00 that was a Duke Ellington quote and there is no such thing as music that doesn't inspire, its just that some music might not inspire you as powerfully as others, all based based on personal tast
really? I didn't know that Ellington quote. it came to my mind, as I was browsing youtube, after the Bird movie. anyway, I think I put it too much in a black / white perspective :-) unlike Duke
@marie144cats what's goin' on nowadays is definitely not music....money plays the keys nowadays... back then, the soul and the mind did.. congrats for havin' such taste, kid...
@mrdr00py What's going on nowadays is most certainly music. Just not good music, though I still can't generalize, because there are still many legitimate musicians out there today.
Genius! A acid jazz band is Orlando called the Absinthe Trio covered this song every Wednesday night for there weekly gig. Purely amazing, respect to Monk baby!
Charlie Rouse is a motherfucker! The combo of Rouse and Monk is inimitable. Look at innovation young boys and girls. It's not happening any more. Ask why not and save the world.
I don't have perfect pitch and I find this beautifully fascinating.
MrShuggieTodd 1 day ago
horns are so overpowering. I've always had an aversion to them. I don't know why I feel the need to mention it.
mightypensword 1 day ago
Minor seconds!!!!
fissionesque 2 weeks ago
Do you understand this music or is it just not the point to understand it? I sometimes feel as if I was seeing an abstract painting when listening to jazz.
chistorro12 2 weeks ago
@chistorro12 Having a theory knowledge and digging into more than just the surface really helps you understand and appreciate music, jazz, fusion and classical to be more exact. It'll help you understand more on your particular instrument if you play one too.
BassHead0327 2 weeks ago
Thelonious Monk is a genious!
seco1942 2 weeks ago
It is just not possible to make music like this. Yet, I just heard it. Amazing genius.
ytjbet 2 weeks ago
Man, people mistake eletric guitar for bass guitar... sax or trumpet are far away from general people knowledge... I am saying that as a music teacher... It is really sad...
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It seems as though Monk does listen to the music....It seems the music listens to him.
grouchyblackman 3 weeks ago
anyone else find his piano solo starting at 2:00 scary as hell?
ISt0leTheCookies 4 weeks ago
@ISt0leTheCookies yea its more disturbing to me than anything, but it's also so logical and beautiful!!!
djjjamin 2 weeks ago
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ISt0leTheCookies 4 weeks ago
Holy mother of God. Geniuses
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ISt0leTheCookies 4 weeks ago
seeing this with almost a million views makes me feel good. either more kids are diggin on this or older folks are learning how to work a youtube. either way i'm optimistic for the future...
diggitydankface 1 month ago in playlist Thelonious Monk 3
No one like musical ignorance, but at the same time no one like musical arrogance. Believe it or not, every type of music has its redeeming qualities. Listen to what you love, and accept other people's choices.
cdcase29 1 month ago 14
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Aside from Justin Bieber. There's nothing redeeming about Justin Bieber.
royo90 2 weeks ago 2
@royo90 meh justin bieber's a popular artist. popular artists are not popular for their musicianship, but for the attention they get. Doesn't mean that they are a bad musician, but doesn't mean they're good either. apparently he's doing good at his job because im seeing comments about him all ovr jazz videos, which have nothing at all to do with him.
djjjamin 2 weeks ago
@cdcase29 The Problem with this is: We accept the coices of other people. But we dont accept that Artists with no talent get all the money and guys that have amazing talent have to work much much harder for earning less, and if they get famous, they only get famous after their death. If every music was free, that would not be a problem. But unfortunatley, it is not. 80$ per evening for a jazz musician with shitloads of talent vs. thousands of $ for an untalented prick per eve, that is unfair!..
andromedarr 3 days ago
This song makes me feel smug... as if I know something the plebeians do not...
DeepSouthWrestling1 1 month ago 2
Tune...
TheJessie1952 1 month ago
@sonick808 People that like the Grateful Dead are musical simpletons that have done or are doing to many DRUGS. lmao If you are a fan of the Dead so be it. But don't compare legitimate musicians to musical children that can barely tune their guitars. Insstead play Hippee land and smoke a doobie maaan while listening to Casy Jones.
TheCmfree 2 months ago
This is really good whose the sax player?
jlhyz2 2 months ago
i can generate or name any pitch in a total vacuum, without any deviation. That's perfect pitch. My guitar teacher noticed it when i was tuning my guitar without a tuner when i was five or six and started taking lessons; to exact center pitch mind you. It is also a curse, since every sonic deviation in your everday life is like torture.
sonick808 2 months ago
@sonick808 That´s not having perfect pitch. It is of course a form of autism. You may be able to tune perfectly, but that´s just a secondary effect of your brain. If you had perfect pitch, some sounds wouldn´t be "torture". A minor 2nd interval can sound good or bad, it depends on the context, for example.
tweenboxyeah 1 month ago
@tweenboxyeah "torture" was just conjecture. Of course any interval can be quite pleasing in the proper context. I was flippant with my initial opinion, and it got out of control. Enough. As for PP, you can't generate or name a tone in a vacuum without it. At least this according to 10+ years worth of training on keys and undergrad professors. Sorry for the initial flip comment, but I maintain my >opinion< that this is musically harsh. Time to put this one to bed. Filter on.
sonick808 1 month ago
@sonick808 ok man, maybe I was a bit harsh too.. maybe you don´t like this piece because it lacks a certain "memorable" or "instant recognisable" melody? just wondering...
tweenboxyeah 1 month ago
Wow
loupro1 2 months ago
@sonick808 I hate you.
HunterHolmesMusic 2 months ago
:-D
julesk475 2 months ago
i have perfect pitch, and i find this horribly offensive
sonick808 2 months ago
@sonick808 your a perfect bitch ?
ddonthavetimeforthis 2 months ago
@ddonthavetimeforthis touche
sonick808 2 months ago
@sonick808 well yea monk is rude music, if ur offended dont listen 2 it. u cant deny its amazing and innovative jazz tho.
djjjamin 2 months ago
@sonick808 I'm guessing he did too
focus2aus 2 months ago
@sonick808 You clearly have no idea what perfect pitch is.
RoganGD 2 months ago
@RoganGD i see your point though and i should clarify, it is the odd intervals (firsts/sevenths, minor fifths), lack of melody and noodling in totally different keys (when a key is even discernable) that drive me nuts re: this music. I'm not trying to argue it's historical merits, I just stumbled on the video and made an offhand comment that it made my head hurt. Now Grateful Dead, there's melodious noodling that makes musical sense... my two cents and just an opinion. moving along.
sonick808 2 months ago
@sonick808 That's understandable, but it has to do with relative pitch, not perfect pitch. I'm not here to judge your taste in music, your claim just didn't make sense to me.
RoganGD 2 months ago
@sonick808 Man are you serious lack of melody. Didn't you hear Monk quote 'Swinging on Nothing' note for note then rip the hell out of it and base his entire solo around that? It's energetic, busy, and even a bit frantic but that's jazz. It's not meant to be nice and neat...
Odin029 2 months ago
@sonick808 you have autism, not perfect pitch. shut the fuck up and learn more about music and consonance/dissonance before you start trying to act like you know things.
mbera11 1 month ago
@mbera11 I still have perfect pitch, and I understand the difference between pleasing and displeasing intervals. No one without PP can name or generate tonally perfect notes in a vacuum or tune a guitar all their lives without a tuner. BTW, you should go back and re-read all of your comments; you probably won't notice it, but to anyone else, your degree of negativity is borderline comical. EVERY comment you make is bashing someone. You are a terrible hyprocrite and a miserable SOB
sonick808 1 month ago
@sonick808 Arguing and expressing dissenting opinions isn't "bashing" or being negative. Sometimes I'm trolling, but not that often. I actually assumed you were trolling at first, because I thought no one could be that self-righteous and smarmy without an intentional desire to cause discord behind it. Apparently you are actually that shitty of a person, though.
mbera11 1 month ago
this a good , very good music , first time i heared
Epidemiax19 2 months ago
Is that Benny Goodman playing the organ?? LOL
butchermachine 2 months ago
I can't tell.. is that a tenor sax or a trombone or a trumpet or a french horn?? LOL
butchermachine 2 months ago
chaos
BassFever74 3 months ago
Monk's solo rocked in this song!
denzelsnipes69 3 months ago
It makes me sad that people these days could mistake a saxophone for a trumpet
Miloshevits 3 months ago 44
@Miloshevits these days it's more like what's a saxaphone ?
mastouras 1 month ago
@Miloshevits It is very sad thing, Miloševiću. :)
19RaS93 1 month ago
@Miloshevits What's a saxophone?
LimboShrimp 1 month ago
@Miloshevits A news producer had me racking my brains for an hour asking me who that Asian classical musician was who played the violin, "he's very famous, everyone knows who he is." Turns out she was talking about Yo-Yo Ma.
When Isaac Stern died, a prominent news anchor at another station objected to my wanting to run the story, saying, "Nobody but you has ever heard of that obscure violinist guy."
jgrab1 1 month ago
@Miloshevits who cares, if they likes the style..
PeinBboy 3 weeks ago in playlist sun ra and visionaries
Thelonious Monk's music continues beyond bebop.
theunionsailor 3 months ago
Why is there always that black ghost like orb surrounding the saxaphone mouthpiece on old black and white recordings?
beaprod 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Thelonious Monk
@beaprod It's because saxophones are shiny, and the bright light reflecting off of it causes in the old style film a relative area of darkness around the points of over-brightness.
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@beaprod Also, the bent tube shape of a saxophone helps to ensure that lights coming from many different possible angles could be reflected into the camera.
Svetty00 2 months ago
is that miles davis with the trombone/trumpet? not sure about the instrument
lolaxian 3 months ago
@lolaxian not even close buddy, thats a tenor sax, not a trumpet/trombone
stevothemanlyman 3 months ago
@lolaxian You mean John Coltrane on the Sax?
raechardonnay 3 months ago
When others were trying to change the rules of jazz, Monk just went ahead and broke them. Way ahead of his time.
mussman717word 3 months ago
Larry Gales is playing bass
abo401 3 months ago
Anyone know who's playin' bass on this cut? Thanks!
b3l13v3r 3 months ago
@b3l13v3r Gene Ramey
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1wvserenity 4 months ago
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kaloyansa 4 months ago
@kaloyansa What?
Nutterbutterz95 3 months ago
He is soooo inovative!
Dizziegillespie0123 4 months ago
T.M. é apaixonante! HE IS TO FALL IN LOVE WITH!
RosaBarroca 5 months ago
Seems that Monk had a thing for dissonance...perhaps his way of expression his own personal tensions.
RedClayDSGB 5 months ago
Dave chappelle said it best, "he was always off time but perfectly on time"
SpeakinAxiom 5 months ago
My apologies, I somehow overlooked your reference to Robin Kelley 's biography. I'll check it out.
essexccc 5 months ago
My source is Nellie herself but you can verify it in the incredible biography recently released, written by Robin Kelley with the help and blessing of the family
You've got to remember that Dyer's book is a piece of fiction - a beautiful one but fiction none the less - he states in his forward that he was loath to let the truth get in the way of a good story - very little of the Monk piece is based in fact
kingcake54 5 months ago
@kingcake54 Dyer's book is not entirely fiction , it is in fact semi-fiction. I know this as when reading through I cross-referenced whether various incidents in the book where for real or not. To my surprise, some that seemed outlandish did in fact happen.However, I have only your word at the moment about "Melodious Thunk", so unless proven otherwise, you'll excuse me for still thinking it attributed it to Nellie. Cheers
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Definitely recommend two books: 1. "Monk..." by Robin Kelley and 2. "Nica's Dream" by David Kastin. And while you read those books, multitask and listen to Monk -- any Monk.
lromfried 5 months ago
Definitely recommend two books: 1. Monk by Robin Kelley and 2. Nica's Dream by David Kastin. And while you read those book, multitask and listen to Monk -- any Monk.
lromfried 5 months ago
28 dislikes? Id really like to pick those peoples brains...I just dont get them. This is brilliance.
pkdrums 5 months ago
Is that Miles Davis on Sax lol
IDontLiveTodayJH 5 months ago
I just love the name "Melodious Thunk" that his wife ,Nellie Smith, gave him.
essexccc 5 months ago
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Nellie never called him that and was quite annoyed that people attributed that to her
kingcake54 5 months ago
@kingcake54 What's you're source for that ? Mine is Geoff Dyer's excellent book "But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz". Very much recommended.
essexccc 5 months ago
@kingcake54 Of course I meant "your source" .
essexccc 5 months ago
@essexccc
That's just awesome. No wonder he married her.
mussman717word 4 months ago
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yondaime4000 6 months ago
monk is beautiful
MrSnaketoe 6 months ago
oh no, not the devis!!
MrSnaketoe 6 months ago
His main style is dissonance and diminished stuffz
americaneyes1 6 months ago
One of my favorite jazz quotes is about Monk, from none other than Chico Hamilton, Monk's drummer: “Man, I’ve played with piano players who played all the white keys, and I’ve played with piano players who played all the black keys. But I never played with no motherfucker who played in between the cracks.”
gibgezr 6 months ago 35
its impressive to see his fingers they never bend
greendog105 6 months ago
"There ain't no wrong notes on the piano." Monk
mrhipsterdoofus 6 months ago 69
Genius is misunderstood. Nobody knows what he was hearing in his head. He was Picasso on piano.
dubbz1 6 months ago
Iff you don't get Monk, if you don't like Monk then it's just too bad for you.
8House 6 months ago
On the whole "wrong music" thing, check out Larry LaLonde from Primus or better yet, Behold the Arctopus. They create "wrong" music
LynkxMan 6 months ago in playlist John Coltrane Playlist 2
Hitting notes is music. Is there wrong music?
leoheefteenbril1956 7 months ago
all 28 haters are total cocks. Dry as a bone dicks. Don't get it. Your loss.
TheLateBlackRob 7 months ago
actually, there are wrong notes. the thing is, Thelonius Monk has never hit one
dontcarejeezwtf 7 months ago
duuude thelonious's piano playing is SO AMAZINGLY CREEPY! he's so good he doesn't even need to cut his fingernails!
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Swingin with no let up.
hremdldw 7 months ago
My favorite musicians/composers are unique and can rarely be mistaken for anyone else. Zappa, Bach, Debussy and Monk are right on top!!!!
jfffjl 7 months ago
só para o anacrônicos !!!
silviozaleski 7 months ago
Malandro, saca esse baixista lá atrás esmirilhando!!!!
2ego 7 months ago
Brilliant.
jing479 7 months ago
Genius ! Life, exactly !
Psikonaute666 7 months ago
To Marie 144 cats: Thank you for your input, now I understand why 'Picaso's' Art was so , ahhh!, ''so bad correct.'' Glad Van Gough didn't have two ears, he'd be in big trouble.
danzbmw 7 months ago
i got some pretty good ideas for composing death metal from watching this guy haha,
jazz fucking owns!!!!
thrshr2112 8 months ago
@thrshr2112 its funny how metalheads can appreciate bepop and fusion. but dude so many death metal bands draw from this stuff, especially atheist
ThrashIsBack123 8 months ago
Love it. We love it!
theappraiserlady 8 months ago
I like that dude for what he's doing. and to those who doubt....you should at least like him for having such a awesome unreal personality
guitar17johnny 8 months ago
If you are a musician you will no that in jazz there are no wrong notes. If you are playing music, and some one tells you you are playing wrong, tell them " I am playing JAZZ!!"
RudeCo11 8 months ago
This man has influenced modern jazz enormously...so far ahead of his time that we are still trying to figure it out. True Genius, period.
Dharma2U 8 months ago
There are no wrong notes here fools...He's improvising. The great artists such as Monk, Tatum, Waller, Ellington and Brubeck, etc. would improvise the notes as they played. You listen to to much of the modern music with simple beats and redundant lyrics.
justlooseit8567 8 months ago
there are no wrong notes in improv
420allday67 8 months ago
Sorry, but I strongly disagree with you marie144cats, mabolzich actually made a valid point. If you study the art of Bebop you'd realize that it is a very expressive form of jazz that often incorporates consonance AND dissonance combined with strong improvisation; which to an untrained ear would seem to be very wrong when in fact it is absolutely right from a musical perspective. That is why it is so difficult for the average listener to grasp. Btw, I am a musician. ;-)
mivey4 8 months ago
i want a button near "i like it"
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just
"love it"
saxmachine985 8 months ago
If the world really is gonna end for us sinners this year,this is my choice for the closing theme!!
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brilliance, all aspects
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brooksgalenbrooksgal 8 months ago
wow
f***ing genius!!
fantastic
leandroearth 8 months ago
does anyone know what this "epistrophy" word mean?
okito00 8 months ago
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softmadchildren 8 months ago
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@okito00
comes from epistrophe. repetition of a word at the end of a sentence or clause. monk is playing with that idea musically.
softmadchildren 8 months ago
@okito00 a epistrophy is a composition that works toward every note being at once improvisational and intentional.
Arthro92 6 months ago
brilliance, all aspects
fastborzoi 8 months ago
brilliance in all aspects
fastborzoi 8 months ago
monk had a form of autism. fun fact.
Ijustleavecomments 8 months ago
@Ijustleavecomments You serious? Well, what do you know hu.
TobbeStorm 8 months ago
@TobbeStorm yepyep. my grandpa was worked with him when he was younger.
Ijustleavecomments 8 months ago
so talented and heroine ran his life!
tobohagen 9 months ago
You can't describe this shit in words...it's all about "personal style".
Monk is up there with Oscar and McCoy.
Another level...a master of the keys.
VirtuosoBigD 9 months ago 2
@VirtuosoBigD Level with Oscar… nah.
dk215 8 months ago
Amazing. Every time I hear these guys,or any Monk, it's still and always so astoundingly new. Thank you for posting.
beforeourveryeyes 9 months ago
Monk is life
YoshimizRobots 9 months ago 45
@YoshimizRobots I think quantum mechanics need to take into consideration the possibility that Monk is a universe unto itself. And yes, life.
moosenamedmorton 6 months ago
@YoshimizRobots Very true
mg1617s1 5 months ago in playlist Jazz
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YES! I have always felt that Monk often approached something not of this world. His melodies were so simple, yet, at the same time, they sounded so awesome and spiritual that he must have had talent on loan from the GODS! I agree- Monk is life!
NewarkChe 3 months ago
Monk just goes to the boundries of the musical ganra...and beyond...wow that's so great on almost every level...
PsyJunk 9 months ago
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. so cool.
unclejunglebass 10 months ago
Love Eric Riley...such a tidy drummer.
peppertennis 10 months ago
Damn I love piano sex
Bagas 10 months ago
The piano solo (1:59-3:14) is one of those transcendent moments in jazz, impossible to replicate. In the mid-1960s, at a very early age, I saw TM a few times in Baltimore and Washington and concluded that, as with certain artists and writers, you either get him or you don't--and language doesn't quite explain the appeal.
naizret 10 months ago
Kendrick wishes he was as smoovvv as Thelonious!!!!! You'll probably never say Perkins was one of the best bball players ever. But for ever you'll say Monk was one of the best keyboard player EVER!!!!
DUANESKEE 10 months ago
Kendrick wishes he was as smoovvv as Thelonious!!!!!
DUANESKEE 10 months ago
This is his first composition (1942).
It was a signal that he will be a Master,
Many years later je became a Sacred Monster.
xF - Rio de Janeiro
XicoFlavio 10 months ago
For those of you saying what he is playing is wrong... You watch too much modern music. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WRONG MUSIC! THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF MUSIC! I'M IN SEVETH GRADE AND I KNOW THAT!
marie144cats 10 months ago 168
@marie144cats What an obnoxious kid
TWill800 8 months ago
@marie144cats Well actually, there is. The way thelonious structured his music was soo wrong, but it still sounded amazing and original. If you, as a seventh grader, played music that was deemed "wrong" or "incorrect" it would still be "wrong." Would it be GOOD? perhaps, but as a young musician you won't have the insight to deem what is "good." (unless you're a prodigy). There is also bad correct music, like some new music. Correct and Incorrect exist, but so do good and bad, and dont correlate.
WonderfulMrShyne 8 months ago
@WonderfulMrShyne You learn the rules so you can break them.
mcmike100 8 months ago
@WonderfulMrShyne Are you the deciding factor on all things relating to what's right and wrong? There's no such thing as a "wrong" note, when it comes to listening. Sure, you could play a note that would be "wrong" on paper, playing a seventh over a dominant seventh, etc, but, as Bird himself said, "when I'm improvising, my wrong notes become the right notes". There's no such thing as a wrong note. If it swings, it swings. Enough said.
Sestrierre 7 months ago
@marie144cats So true....
sulfurousstench 7 months ago in playlist sun ra and visionaries
@marie144cats thats right
Mr123jab 7 months ago
@marie144cats Good for you, my young friend. Keep that great attitude.
wubbster 7 months ago
@marie144cats ur the man!!!!
pomomom 6 months ago
@marie144cats yea u rule!
jlhyz2 6 months ago
@marie144cats theres only two types of music, the good and the bad kind
yadrummer11 6 months ago 2
@yadrummer11
no. there's only music that inspires u or music that doesn't inspire u. each to its own.
flyingsnow00 6 months ago
@flyingsnow00 that was a Duke Ellington quote and there is no such thing as music that doesn't inspire, its just that some music might not inspire you as powerfully as others, all based based on personal tast
yadrummer11 6 months ago
@yadrummer11
really? I didn't know that Ellington quote. it came to my mind, as I was browsing youtube, after the Bird movie. anyway, I think I put it too much in a black / white perspective :-) unlike Duke
flyingsnow00 2 months ago
@marie144cats Yeah, there is no wrong music, there are only more or less tasty notes :)
eaglerat1 5 months ago
@marie144cats what's goin' on nowadays is definitely not music....money plays the keys nowadays... back then, the soul and the mind did.. congrats for havin' such taste, kid...
mrdr00py 5 months ago 8
@mrdr00py Go indie
PTSO09 5 months ago
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@PTSO09 thanks but no thanks ;)
mrdr00py 5 months ago
@mrdr00py What's going on nowadays is most certainly music. Just not good music, though I still can't generalize, because there are still many legitimate musicians out there today.
frankentomato 1 month ago
@marie144cats well I am 47 and I totally agree with you. Hahaha! Cheers to you!
butchchase 5 months ago
@marie144cats wow good that you know that. Very wise.!
mg1617s1 5 months ago in playlist Jazz
@marie144cats You are going to go places! Wonderful.
SonomaCoMcCoy 5 months ago
kendrik perkins looking motherfucker
matttheobscure13 11 months ago
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PERFECT song 2 get stoned 2
djjjamin 11 months ago
PERFECT song 2 get stoned 2
djjjamin 11 months ago
Yessiiiirrrrr! Amazing!
bayce3 11 months ago
very unique just cant put my finger on it thats monk original
mgalore 11 months ago
Genius! A acid jazz band is Orlando called the Absinthe Trio covered this song every Wednesday night for there weekly gig. Purely amazing, respect to Monk baby!
openeyefiddle 11 months ago
Monk, like no other
Bagas 11 months ago
Charlie Rouse is a motherfucker! The combo of Rouse and Monk is inimitable. Look at innovation young boys and girls. It's not happening any more. Ask why not and save the world.
SeerTrulth 1 year ago
heaven is here
Timopartanen2 1 year ago
Charlie Rouse was the man!!! I just love this song...
iWannaKitkatt 1 year ago
I love the bit that sounds like "Dancing Queen" by ABBA . Hot.
suereed 1 year ago