Thelonious Monk - Jazz 625 - part 3/4 - Rhythm-a-ning

[jmsbk12345]

THIS IS REAL MUSIC. Does anyone know where I could obtain this full gig on DVD?

[charlieparkerman]

What's the sub Rouse uses at 2:44?

[natebiz]

@charlieparkerman sounds pentatonic blues?

[coreymwamba]

@charlieparkerman It's an old song of Monk's - "Humph". It subs the A section of "I Got Rhythm" with a sequence of fourths, like this:

4/4 F♯ B | E A |D G | C F | B♭ | B♭ | B♭ |B♭

HTH

[ehki]

Powerful! And this would be even more if I were on the audience back in the day when this was performanced

[flyingyakule]

right at the beginning of the song before the rest of the band comes in with him, when monk plays his lick the first part sounds like blues clues copied it 0:11-0:14

[jmsbk12345]

Please someone - how do I get this entire gig on DVD? Thank you.

[dramione454]

Charlie Rouse has such a sound! The Gales solo w/ an obligatory "Shave & a Haircut" at 7:43, Ben Riley's drums, a great version! Thanks!

[MrsBlack88]

@dramione454 doesnt he? the music is amazing.

[postatility]

I think Monk's son,T.S.Monk described his father's approach to playng,composing and bandleading perfectly:"Workmanlike".Althou­gh those of us watching and enjoying this video know that Thelonious was a genius of music,it was his laborious effort and great perserverence that brought his music to the world.Thanx for posting this wonderful clip!!

[ThelMonkMan]

Johann Sebastian Bach is sat with them, foot tapping and finger popping, he is loving that walking base continuo from Gales, JSB started it all!

[macktheknife412]

awesome!

[jmsbk12345]

Does anyone know when these 625 gigs will be released on DVD? This Monk gig is absolutely fantastic.

[namcisum]

@jmsbk12345

there are 2 errol garner jazz 625 episodes that have been released as well as Oscar Peterson

[LGLG69]

Classic Monk quartet. I love the rich sound that Rouse makes.

[53160]

I can't think of any piano player who escaped the mechanical sound of the piano. Besides Monk.

[jazzsonic]

just great!

[plumeragent]

Salty sweat on the sweet suite set!

[orkavorn]

Wow - wasn't expecting to find this!

One of my favourites too :D

Thanks for the upload~~

[ignarukih]

It keeps the jazz from flowing out all at once.

[mrfadeout]

Thelonious loved Gershwin. This one is based on the changes to "I Got Rhythm".

[sealerdave]

I Love Monk nobody plays a piano like he does..Can't quite nail down what it is I listen to all the greats..but there is "something" about Monks sound ...

[cavaleer]

Monk does everything you're taught NOT to do but he does it the right way, and most importantly he remains true to the fact that it must SWING. To do these things simultaneously is why he is a genius, easily the most eccentric genius of the last 200 years I'd say, maybe more. He could barely speak audibly, was generally indifferent to most things and people around him and quit playing publicly for multiple years in his prime.

All told, that's one of a kind. haha

[giles422]

Monk could talk, and relate, all he wanted to, and was very hip ad intelligent. Just not all the time.

[go2illa]

u have to do stuff your not taught, i mean if everyone just did stuff they were taught all of the time there would be no innovation

[cavaleer]

That's the way.

[xenos82]

@cavaleer Virtually none of that is true. Read Robin D.G. Kelley's fantastic new biography of Monk to learn the real facts.

Most eccentric genius? For the 20th century, at least, it's probably Ludwig Wittgenstein, or maybe Kurt Gödel.

[cavaleer]

@xenos82 Wittgenstein was in no way a genius. He was a corn-ball Euro scholar. You must be a Euro to even say that. The reason Monk was such a genius was because he was eccentric and ingenious but still "cool" and he was still swinging, like Duke, Miles, Gillespie etc.

You don't even understand the significance of this. Being eccentric doesn't mean jack if you're not "cool" and don't know how to "swing".

[cavaleer]

@xenos82 And have you actually listened to Monk speaking in these video sets?? I can't make out what he's saying until the 3rd or 4th time I listen to it. And his indifference to most things and people is quite well-documented.

[xenos82]

@cavaleer I was going to reply, tell you again to read Kelley's biography of Monk and to check out the documentary "Jazz Baroness" on Pannonica Rothschild where one can hear Monk in conversation, speaking clear as day. But then you said Wittgenstein was "in no way a genius," that he was a "corn-ball Euro scholar," whatever the hell that means. You've clearly never read Wittgenstein or anything about him; to label him a "scholar" is pretty funny, actually. And I'm American.

[cavaleer]

@xenos82 Yes, I have read Wittgenstein, along with Feuerbach (sp), Heidegger, Kierk, and the biggest intellectual cripple of them all---KANT. Witt is a TOAL corn-ball. I read most of them before I went to college. By the end of my freshman year I'd covered all the British stiffs, from Locke to Bacon. So spare me. Of philo-s the word genius only applies to NIETZSCHE.

If as an American you don't understand why Witt should never be mentioned in the same breath as Monk, you don't get it.

[cavaleer]

@xenos82 The word I use to described Witt, Heidergger, Kant, Foucault ET AL, is "mental-masturbator" because that's all they do. You're probably a corn-ball scholar stiff yourself. Only someone like that would say Witt was an eccentric genius. Eccentric maybe. Genius, never. Geniuses CREATE. They don't play imaginary mind games their entire lives.

Nietzsche says it all much more beautifully and forcefully in Beyond Good and Evil, in the chapter Peoples and Fatherlands.

[cavaleer]

@xenos82 And of course he was influenced by the intellectual-cripple Kant, as well as well as his Hebraic origins, his sibling suicides and his homo-ness. Do you honestly think Monk, Duke, Miles, Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, or Frank LLoyd Wright needed someone to tell that "they had a wonderful life"? Like I said, you don't understand the first letter of the word genius if you think some thoughtful misfit like Witt is a genius. Only someone equally devoted to mental masturbation would...

[xenos82]

@cavaleer No wonder you've got nothing between your ears, you've forced yourself through all those philosophy books. Your argument is laughable on its face. Wittgenstein didn't create anything? Not in the narrow sense you mean.

At any rate I don't care about Heidegger or Foucault. Kierkegaard's a little interesting. Kant one can take or leave. Wittgenstein certainly did the latter.

Hold true to your inane and false convictions about Monk's life. I guess picking up one more book is too much.

[cavaleer]

@xenos82 As I said, I finished that drivel before age 19. And clearly you're akin to that thoughtful misfit you idolize. To mention him in the same breath as Monk is beyond laughable but not surprising given your tastes.

As far as Monk's eccentricities, whether or not he spoke clearly every time he opened his mouth is irrelevant. He certainly never needed to ask anyone if he had lived a "wonderful".

Such insecurity is only present in sterile misfits, like scholars and all related types.

[xenos82]

@cavaleer It doesn't matter when you read those books.

I don't recall Wittgenstein ever asking anyone if he had lived a wonderful life. I think you misread his last words when you were Googling him. His last words: "Tell them I've had a wonderful life." No question there.

Wittgenstein wasn't a scholar and neither am I. You've got some deep-rooted hate for scholars, that's cool. But it's blinding you.

[jazzmelodicminor77]

graciassssssssss esta bastisimo

[podman51]

Thank's for posting. That is Humphrey Littleton introducing. Louis Armstrong said that he was the, "Uk's best trumpeter". One of his ancestors was hanged along with Guy Fawkes for plotting to blow up parliament. Humph said that he was his favourite relative! As well as his band, Littleton hosted BBC radio's, I'm Sorry, I Have'nt A Clue.

[zsylvana]

I have heard Humphrey Littleton.Indeed a great trumpetplayer.And i can understand Satchmo liked him.He have something special.

I know BBC and France and also Swedish TV

have great archive with a lot of rare moments in music.Swedish TV have open up free to use on YouTube and it´s a Goldmine!I should see what i can find!

[indigoba]

Charlie Rouse is on fire in this vid

[Gorboduc]

So is Larry Gales.

[indigoba]

This is my favourite monk song

probably only my favourite always changes!

it is at the momment tho

[OopBopShBam]

thanks ;-)

Everybody have solid swing in this Video.

Monk, Rouse, Gales & Riley is a unit.

[jubal82]

this is amazing.

excellent job on posting this wonderful

rare footage of monk and his quartet's