TSMonk - Misterioso

[mandryitera]

Since the chords are indicated, the chart can only be for one of two instruments. Piano, the instrument of the composer or guitar. At least that's my guess. I have the first three volumes of "Real BooK" series, all for piano and guitar. I have never seen the books in alternative keys for saxes etc., and do not know if the chords are indicated for "The Lydian Concept of Tonal Gravity".

[blueroan4]

what instrument is that chart ^^^ for?

[IgorTerrible]

Love Monk, hate this tune- it's like a practice exercise.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@IgorTerrible This is The Blues!!!

[confoozled3737]

@IgorTerrible Are you not familiar with many blues heads?

[IgorTerrible]

@confoozled3737 I am not here to trash Monk, he was a genius and I have played this tune many times with big bands- it's not one of his best compositions, it's just a series of accending and decending sixths over a double time12 bar (really a 24 bar) blues sequence with almost no variation, unlike 'Blue Monk' which contrasts the accending chromatic line with a 'lick' (ingeniously displaced at the end 'A La Monk'). Although it's a nice groove once the solos begin.

[mountaintop1234]

DDDDDDOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!­!!!!

[orbison52]

QUE MARAVILLA, ARMONICAMENTE. una BELLEZA.

[postatility]

It is Buhaina(Mr.Blakey)who really ties everything together and makes this session work as well as it does!

[JimBozeman1956]

Is this Sonny Rollins on sax on this recording?

[hremdldw]

Seerskater:Dizzy Gillespie put it aptly anybody who denies his Daddy is a fool.This isn't the modal blues.This is greasy blues,Monk's comes in a long line of Harlem stride pianist Hear the horn playing a walking bass line love Horace coming in and not being intimated with Monk on the date.Horace played his own hard funky blues style.This is one of my all time Sonny Rollins dates.Kudos too the Aand R man on this date top notch all the way around.

[postatility]

This tune could be called "Blue Merry-Go-Round" It is one of the killer blues performances of all time.Monk always brought out the best in whoever was playing with him!

[antonini94]

fa cagare

[Horus21jock]

Listening to this for the first time, I wondered why Its named "Misterioso". The last note in this piece explained it all. Listening to it again... what suspense!

[seerskater]

everybody always plays this like a blues. I dont feel like it was really meant as a standard blues

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@seerskater Well, it is pretty much a rewrite of KC Blues/Parker's Mood with the proverbial Monk twist.

[seerskater]

@AllBobsAllTheTime  huh? what do you mean by that

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@seerskater Listen to this and then check out Parker's Mood - once you get by the respective intros, you've got very similar songs with Rollins even borrowing a little of Bird's phrasing (which I guess for a sax player is almost impossible not to do.) Then listen to KC Blues and see what you think; unfortunately, I can't find Bird's version of it on youtube.

[seerskater]

@AllBobsAllTheTime oh i was just talking about the head. but yeah theyre both slow blueses i guess

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

The only misstep in this entire recording is Rollins quoting a couple of bars of Camptown Races towards the end.

[keyzcity]

@AllBobsAllTheTime Dood Monk recorded "This Old Man". Lol. There are always silly melodies goin down on Monk recordings = )

[rillloudmother]

kinda misleading since his son goes by T.S. Monk and Monk went by Thelonious..

[dmjune]

Check out "Casiotone Nation" by Soul Coughing for an awesome sampling of this track.

[SIRONEDRAGON]

cool

[peppersax]

I love Monk. FYI I wonder if Monk was inspired by Bach when he composed this song. Take a listen to Bach's Invention #13 towards the end. The left hand is playing this same type of minor' motif (minor variation).

[brutalballs5]

damn, this is a solid lineup. Thanks for posting the lead sheets with the tunes.

[harmoniousmonkey]

Monk saved my life. That's all I'll say. Listen to all he played and he may save yours. And if he doesn't, you'll still be the better for it. What a sad story, that he ended so crazy when he played so sanely while he could. If there's a God, he/she/it loves you. I love you.

[FiddleRockStar]

Thelonius just has such a distinctive tone!

[alkh3myst]

It's all those 6th and half-diminished chords.

[hremdldw]

I love every thing about this classic blues.All masters at there craft.I think we should mention the great Blue Note producers Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff.True lovers of this art form.I repeat I love all the players the amazing thing the two piano players who are Amercian music greatist tune smiths don't get in each other way.I love Horaces solo he plays his funky blues you can smell the toe jam he's so funky.

[JazzBaroness]

what a great tune...

check out MISTERIOSO. A JOURNEY INTO THE SILENCE OF THELONIOUS MONK at Riverside Studios in London

[harleykojak]

LOL on the riff thread- those morons were PWNED!!!!

[beniamino3333]

Thanks...

[rblodget]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHhh! Sonny !

So goooood!

[hpeterkawaja]

I think it's called "quoting" when jazz musicians play a certain recognizable phrase from either a previously known tune or a known lick played by another. I remember listening to monk's carnegie performance with coltrane and Monk quotes his own "52nd street theme" in Crepiscule with nellie.

[rblodget]

I love crepiscule although that carnagie show was kindof slopie

[ricisrock]

I stumbled on this album gotta be...late 80's. Gotta be my favorite version of it. Had the trombone master tape years ago with JJ and Nat Adderly on cornet which was good to..I guess that's the one yall are talkin about

[enomane109]

I first heard this in 1957...met Sonny in 1958 in San Francisco...this jam is and always will be awesome

[123BubberMiley]

Awesome. definitely easy to hear when it's monk and when horace is playing. Monk had such a easily distinguishable sound. quite inimitable.

[Trombone0817]

JJ had a lot of riffs he would repeat. I hear some things from his Sextet Album in this solo as well. It's not a bad thing though because he incorporates them into whatever he's playing with the solo pretty well.

[ottsirq]

You are both WRONG. Transcribe the two solos and you will see there is no similarity (beyond 4 notes comprising 1 second), though he recorded this tune twice within a few months (I refer to the compilation Seybert writes of*). But yes- he refers to the melody to close both solos.

Please do not comment with "authority" on things you clearly don't understand.

*Trombone Master was not an album of J.J.'s. It was a compilation of tunes from a few different J.J. albums, produced by Columbia Records.

[ottsirq]

Another telltale sign of ignorance by people who purport to have knowledge of jazz (the

above two charlatans come to mind) is the incorrect use of the word "riff."

Lesson time:

A riff is a repeated figure, used (usually in blues or rhythm changes forms) as background or in an ensemble chorus with other contrasting material.

A single musician cannot play a riff unless they are repeating a background figure behind someone else.

Riffs are not played by a soloist!

Dummies.

[Jour0n]

EXACTLY.

call it a lick or a sequence.

I also think, but I ain't sure, in Jazz the "riff" is called an ostinato

[DajaWaja]

could also call'em cliches, couldnt y'all?

[rblodget]

??? What about a guitar riff? I think you are confused sir!

[ronix32]

"Sir" is most certainly not, that is the textbook definition of a riff.