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  • WHO KNEW MR MONK TALKED AND SOUNDED LIKE BERNIE MAC!!!LOL

  • Why does he talk like he just woke up from surgury? Too lazy to enunciate words? The original thug?

  • @joeyisfunny might be heroine

  • White people acting black is always entertaining.

  • monk was the hippist jolliest motherfucker in the world

  • Monk is so punk.......

  • i love how he pulls out the flask..

  • Duke said same thing about recording session.

    Real Jazz musicians!

  • he's funny as richard  pryor

  • Am I alone in thinking Thelonious Monk possessed the coolest name in Jazz!

  • :29  "wherez-he-at?" lol

  • "where were we before we were so rudely interrupted?" Awesome!

  • teo produced Mingus Ah Um, Bitches Brew etc etc

    i thoght i better give a lesson haha

  • Seems like they should have just pushed record and left them alone for about six hours and then fished through it, then kept it all. Producers didn't get that back then.....

  • @MarquisEstelle i think that would have taken a looot of tape

  • My wife feels that he mumbles too much.

  • @ddsoco He dose his talking via the piano. =)

  • @ddsoco

    perhaps your wife should consider the content of his words,rather than the delivery?

    lots of wisdom,knowledge and foresight there.

  • @MrHoracedebussyjones She would, if she could hear them.

  • I love the personality in Monk's compositions and (Horace Silver's). 

  • Love this cat's hats.

  • teo...teo...teooo

  • Who knew Buddy Hackett produced jazz records?

  • This is good rare footage

  • miles said, ' i could jump on monks feet for 2 weeks straight and he wouldn't lay a finger on me'

  • Teo Macero was one of the greatest jazz producers; he was no amateur in dealing with this kind of music or players. We laugh because he interrupted Monk while he was playing, but he had experience dealing with Monk. Monk was a difficult guy; maybe he needed a little pushing to get a great take. Macero wouldn't have done that if he didn't know exactly what he was doing. Didn't want Monk to take it too easy!

  • @comateensnyc

    He was more an engineer than a producer...the artist were actually producing the music...he didn't understand that it was about feeling not about perfection...this is where most people go wrong with music you can't chop it up to envoke the emotion...Teo should have just shut up and let them play

  • @comateensnyc but business destroys everything, nothing remains pure when you are on someone's dime!

  • 1st and 2nd takes only! holy shit, these guys were musical masters.

  • @MrFigueroa007

    OK?!.....LOL

  • This is so beautiful. I love how Charlie Rouse compliments to Monk- they flowed, together!

  • Monk's last great composition: Ugly Beauty. Hey man, thanks for filling my ears with utter joy.

  • No wonder Monk went crazy. Teo waits for Monk to finish an historic jam then asks him to get serious. LOL Afterwards, Monk blows everyone away only to hear Teo, again, pipe through with, "Stand bye." My ribs hurt.

  • I don't think it was drugs so much as straight up mental illness.... there's no doubt he suffered from schizophrenia or bipolar disorder....

    the guy doing the dance is teo macero the great jazz producer...

  • @boxcarchris: It was bi-polar disease: manic depression.

  • It has been learned that Monk was bipolar.!

  • this guy is not only a jazz genius, but a musical one...but gosh he is so spent on drugs in these clips, all part of the lifestyle i guess

  • @trojantboneguy Gettin hopped up and playing piano is hella fun. = )

  • They should make a Hollywood movie with Denzel Washington as Monk.

  • @johnteddyJoe

    No, I think the actor Wendell Pierce, would do a great job as Thelonious Monk.

  • i think tht guy think she is paying tribute to monk w his body language doing monk's dance....he looks like a clown and though he may appreciate monks genius he looks like and idiot doing tht shit.

  • i see eastwood in a whole new light. wait. let me guess... he had nothing to do with this? who is behind all this amazing footage?

    it's brilliant. it's raw, it's brilliant. it's genius trapped in a bottle.

  • "Who is this honky"

  • Thank you so much for posting, eccentricXXX

  • that producer is such a fucking asshole. i am annoyed for thelonious.

  • he is probably one of the most respected producers in jazz history. he recorded a couple little things... kind of blue, time out, mingus ah um, monk's dream, etc. this guy is not an asshole

  • That Producer is so jive.

  • @Shinmeiryu

    Yeah he is so jive..... he only produced "Kind of Blue", "In a Silent Way", and "Bitches Brew" with Miles. He also produced "Take Five" with Brubeck, and "MIngus Ah Um" just to name a couple of the absolutely legendary classics of jazz that he worked to create. You might think his manner is not so hip but to call one of the greatest and most influential jazz producers of all time "jive" paints you as someone who needs to do a little more research into jazz history friend.

  • @Shinmeiryu

    eah he is so jive..... he only produced "Kind of Blue", "In a Silent Way", and "Bitches Brew" with Miles. He also produced "Take Five" with Brubeck, and "MIngus Ah Um" just to name a couple of the absolutely legendary classics of jazz that he worked to create. You might think his manner is not so hip but to call one of the greatest and most influential jazz producers of all time "jive" paints you as someone who needs to do a little more research into jazz history friend.

  • @TheMovementDown Can't argue with that, as much as I'd like to.

  • @Shinmeiryu: That's Miles Davis's longtime producer Teo Macero. Actually a very able man, he produced many of Miles's greatest albums.

  • @Shinmeiryu i agree

  • The guy was a genius.

    Judge the music not the person.

  • did he always talk like that? now I'm making the obvious conclussions

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  • the internets is a series of tubes with people from all over the world spamming on it, including non-english speaking/spelling people. how's that for an observation?

  • Third Part [THREE of diamonds]...That monster and his funny hats!. You have to play it on the first take or the second take, if you can't make it right it's your problem, you're gonna listen to that for the rest of your life. I wonder if that technique applies to everything else in life.

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