Thelonius Monk - Evidence (HQ)

[jacko1232]

Man I love how that one alto is this white bro with his panties in a knot, and Monk is just chilling hard in the corner taking it all it.

[BRILLIANTCORNRS]

Complex Genious.

[philipd93]

Who is the white saxofonist with black glasses??!

[sambeatch]

@philipd93 Phil woods. it says it in the video

[jadamink]

273rd LIKER D:

[Se7enthThought]

I love how jazz musicians are either cool ass black dudes or nerdy ass white guys....

Looking at you Brubeck. Haha

[iamdavidchavez]

"6 times?!"

I always had the feeling that anyone playing with Monk would be confused as hell at first. What is more impressive-- Monk for writing and leading or anyone who can follow along?

[praesesproductions]

His music is like Picasso and Braque! Cubist! Kaleidoscopic! Takes Eubie Blake and Fats Waller and Art Tatum and the great standards and turns them inside out. Absolute GENIUS.

[pin5a]

2:02 - 2:15 jajajajaja magnific ! ! ! !

[DramaPlasticDelight]

360p isnt HD

[diggsduke]

Monk seems to be one of the few musicians who's personality is kinda like their music.

[rhythm7a]

Excellent footage!

[postatility]

This is Priceless!!

[laughingtiger123]

Phil told me they had NO CHARTS when they got to Europe. LOL Monk had some heads written out and some notes on what he wanted to do. Unbelievable. Obviously, it all worked out.

[freemanhubbard]

Awesome. I wish to play piano like that one day, and the drums!

[MrGuaca]

3 people love justin bibier

[iwannaberock]

@MrGuaca prefere him than retard like you that write such comments

[iwannaberock]

@MrGuaca I prefere him than retards like you that write such idiot comment...

[powertrust71]

pick a nice place to blow and blow it..gold

[moviesontheweb]

As far as I'm concerned he surrounded himself with superior musicians who gave him a launching pad for his occasionally entertaining riffs. The rest of his musical mystery/history was hype.

[bishopdante]

@moviesontheweb

So presumably you'd say the same thing about david bowie.

I believe that running a band is harder than playing one instrument. It's people stuff...

[aklamotte]

That's not actually Monk on piano. It's God. And after Phil Woods on alto, that is Johnny Griffin on tenor.

[aklamotte]

That's not actually Monk on piano. It's God.

[eargh]

Monk, the only man that knows what he's doing, and doesn't know at the same time.

[GANDUL1965]

ITS MISIC

[hatesbostonredsox]

Wow, this footage is awesome.

[babygrandmother]

bass solo sounds fine!

[felipecormu]

yeah!!! lo mejor del mundo!!!!!!!!

[fess04]

: )

[Mattprole]

I will need to learn how to play the piano, and also how to play chess, before I die. I think I'm missing out.

[twixandchips]

man........monk always has cool hats

[TJmoneymaker13]

Monk, i don't get it. His playing is so interesting. Its like a mixture of the utmost sophistication in terms of harmony and rhythm, his attack is also quite unlike other Jazz piano players. but sometimes he sounds like a dyslexic child on a piano, i hope that doesn't offend anyone.

but i suppose i think if i had had the opportunity to have played with Monk i bet i would have felt like an idiot and been completely out of his league.

[sontesn1]

@TJmoneymaker13 How does being dyslexic have anything to with musical abilities? 

[TJmoneymaker13]

@sontesn1 getting things in the wrong order

[TJmoneymaker13]

@sontesn1 getting things in the wrong order, unintentionally

[bishopdante]

@sontesn1

You'd have to ask a dyslexic eh. Laterally.

[jordancwhite]

Who is the bassist??

[josephfrancisneri]

Well, he speaks more clearly than Bill Russell

[SuperBlackMoth]

@josephfrancisneri or president bush

[RevWrona]

You are right, I was blind not to bluntly see "Track from the movie Straight No Chaser." Regarding working the music out, the process really helps define each persons personality. Its one thing to have someone who knows their stuff jump in and play, but it something else entirely seeing how each person tackles the working out process. For the sake of conversation, what do you play?

[minggnim]

LOL. Benicio Del Toro... "The usual Suspects"

[RevWrona]

I know this has been answered, but what is he name of he movie or documentary that this cam from? This is sweet. I love seeing the insides of the jam sessions. As much as I love playing jazz, I also love it when we have a new songs and we need to work it out and make it work. The progress and everything makes it worth so much more.

[seekanddestroy001]

@RevWrona The documentary is actually "Straight No Chaser", as stated in the description, if you haven't seen it by now. I agree with you about the process of working music out. It also seems that the music is really just an extension of the interactions between that group of people, which is what makes this music especially, so worthwhile.

[postatility]

This is one of my favorite segments of the movie,especially when Charlie Rouse explains the tune to "The Little Giant",the amazing Johnny Griffin.A Beautiful moment with two great saxophonists and,having known both of them,two beautiful human beings!

[werq34ac]

Coldplay doesn't even compare to jazz. And jazz is only my second favorite genre.

[DAGUTTA100]

GENIUS!!! PURE Genius, look at the Focus monk had on that piano.

[dvdjchvz]

This is no different than watching Einstein mark a chalkboard-- genius at work.

[vauxhall908]

5 stars!!!

[projectmayhem79]

True Musicians

[bluesguy33]

It's crazy how much trouble Monk's music gave the top musicians of the day.

[oscarivera9]

I have seen Straight No Chaser many times and I still have to take a minute out of my day to listen (& watch) Monk & friends sharing Evidence with us. Not only is it still a fresh sound, but it still doesn't make sense to most people.

[msmami]

just chilln

[JosephO75]

because everything after *your* generation sucks, right?

there's good music today. you have to find it.

[elixirguitarist]

Of course there is always beauty in every generation/era of music; you just need to be open-minded.

[slender1]

Monk was no doubt A Genius. He was also Brilliant. Superb mathematician. (He went to the elite Stuyvesant H.S. in N.Y.C.) He and MOST musicians spoke in a kind of "short hand" Creating a language that didn't then (and even now does not) exist. The artist always creates the future. Read Ezra Pound kiddies.

[gorbochevy]

ezra pound was a fascist and anti semite. Fortunately, one need only consider a poet by his works rather than his principles, and ol ezra was damn good. As soon as you write the cantos, you and everyone else on this thread can afford to be this pompous and musically elitist. Until then, everyone, please, just enjoy the music goddamit!

(and yet i sound pompous even as i write this)

[Patriciovaldivieso]

It's nice and easy to listen to crap singed by a preety boy, and there's nothing wrong about it, but my point is that it dosen't challenge your senses at all, just like all that crap you listen in the radio and MTV, it's just very cheap stuff, and you buy it and defend it! hehe, it's OK and as i said it's not your fault!

I hope you'll understand i don't mean to call you stupid, as you did directly to me, i am just trying to open a few eyes or ears.

Cheers,

[8art]

I think it's useless Patricovaldicieso - simpleminded (is that's correct?) won't understand this and they call You and Your's music stupid.

Every single man have to came to it in his own, sweet way:), Indeed, mostly they give up at the beginning. You can feel sorry for Them ( I feel), but They just don't get it - that's all.

[Patriciovaldivieso]

thaks 8Art (Like tatum!) hehe,

By the way i don't go through youtube answering stupid comments, but, when you found such an amazing video like this and people who can't listen start talking Bull_ _ _ _ it's a must to make things clear.

any way thanks for posting that video again!!!

And remember..... Straight no chaser.

[danielponce07]

Patricio, there is awful music today as there was awful music 2 or 3 decades ago. More crap is mainstream these days, it's true, but talent does not simply disappear. If you want good music by great musicians today, you have to look for it. And trust me, there is beautiful stuff being made all over the world. From Canada to Australia.

[Patriciovaldivieso]

I am sorry to tell you that coldplay and many other bands, hips of them, etc. are bands that just sells rubish for anyone who is willing to accept it,(Stupid People) that's the same people that things that the discovery channel is a good source of information or that reads the "Da Vinci Code".

Don't get me wrong i am not saying that you are stupid, i am just saying that you have become stupid, due to the fact that you have been accepting any givven crap, cause you are too lazy to research

[Glammmbition]

Come on man, coldplay aint making crappy music...

[rayjr62]

Don't even contrast (let alone compare) the genius of Monk to those souless, tuneless, talentless creeps.

[Rigerdaby]

@rayjr62 it was regarding someone else bringing them up..........

[Miloshevits]

@Rigerdaby No need to pick on Coldplay. As a jazz musician studying at a college for music i can tell you that it is more important to recognize good music and appreciate good music of all types. Coldplay and Radiohead are some of the most harmonically inventive modern progressive bands that i've heard. My point is that while we are all here listening and appreciating Monk's genius, we should still take all forms of music into consideration before putting them down.

[Miloshevits]

@Rigerdaby So because they lack musical wit they're bad? You're pretty stuck up yourself there Mr. Conservatorium, I used to be stuck in a "jazz bubble" like you. People. like Monk and Coltrane got inspiration from all music from all parts of the world, that's why they were so original. And let's face it, you're not going to get very far in this world with the music industry the way it is just by being a good jazz pianist. Even if you become the next Taylor Eigsti

[4madman4]

@Miloshevits Don't you dare put Coldplay on the same level as Radiohead, don't you even dare. It's like comparing a used condom with an antique watch

[iOnlyGotOneFace]

@Miloshevits KING CRIMSON, man

[BPColin]

@Rigerdaby Coldplay might seem a little gay to those insecure with their sexuality, but they are a talented group of modern musicians.

[4madman4]

@BPColin Coldplay have compromised their musical taste for the sake of commercialism, so they are NOT musicians. They are entertainers

[Patriciovaldivieso]

I feel sorry about all the people that can't listen to this music, cause radio, schools, tv and society have make them completely deaf, and that's not your fault it's how things are, you are just stupid by default, and ain't nothing you can do about it!

Thanks for giving us the best jazz ever! RIP Monk!!

BTW: if you can't listen to this, why are you posting stuff in here?, go and post in coldplay videos or green day, but leave real music for real people!

[pProjectz]

Well, of course this is really a marvelous music, but your statement about Coldplay makes you just as stupid as people, who you are talking about. Coldplay is really not a trashy band, and if you do not like that style, that doesn't make it bad or something

[abucunezzer101]

this song is called Oska-T (ask-for-T)helonious

its AWESOME. thank you for the post!!!

[owusubonsuiv]

MontgomerylandFools

[lastsonofktn]

monk gets it in!!!

[oldedrum]

Monk has some,shall we say,...'Issues'

---Leave him alone!

[PJORmaximus]

GOAT AT LIFE

[ghostofdolphy]

Man there are some LEGENDS in that sax section. Griff, Woods, and Rouse..I saw this film many times but this is the first time I really compreheneded the masters in that section LOL.

[RaelSpice]

so organic

[adel546]

r.i.p. johnny griffin

[bozziofan01]

monk was a genius i love his music

[artneue]

The 1'st tune is OSKA T. If no one said it before.

/thejazzpolice

[RexLancer]

I guess so since it says Oska T. in the video.

[Pe499]

Monk what an artist.

Peter

[tordack]

I thought this song would be different...not my style, but i don't listen to much jazz so i can't judge it. It sounded Ok.

[alfordeliot]

you can tell you don't listen to jazz

[azqrlaf]

He isn't speaking any differently than any man who is really concentrating hard on creating something, in this case Jazz, and needs to direct others working with him while he is doing it.

[hamtai]

thanks for that!!! one of my favorite monk's band, sounds incredible...

[k12d14]

phew! it smells like jazz up there!

[GazeAaron]

it be all about da hats

[Lautarog]

He speaks like a gansta... And he create music like the gods

[selmer1938]

WTF is wrong with monk's grasp on the enlgish language.

[steveie986]

He doesn't speak English. He speaks Jazz.

[JellyBeener114]

You can't even spell english...you don't need to understand him speaking because he's not talking to you. all u need is to understand the music.

[selmer1938]

It was a joke dickhead.

[JellyBeener114]

I'm not sure who you're speaking to but it definitely isn't me - just be the non-existant cornball that you are, too angry that you're a loser and have absolutely nothing to do with the creation of this music - you're worthless, really. And as far as dickheads go, you might want to check between your legs...if you have one, that is.

[MontgomerylandFunk]

"..Monk, the genius that he was, was also a stuttering retard.."

Not cool at all.

Don't bring one of the biggest contributors of jazz into your internet based pissing contest.

[owusubonsuiv]

monk is simply great.

[spoildn8410]

@MontgomerylandFunk Everyone needs to see the movie, beginning to end. To know

the whole story. Monk was special. Where there's a will there's a way. See the movie.

[jadamink]

@MontgomerylandFunk LOL! THANK U!

[Munchy365]

He may have a bad grasp on enlgish... but at least he can speak English.

[GoFeri]

At least he can speak. But it wouldn't really matter if he didn't, would it?

[dacapes]

no no

thats in london

[nbalbert]

Was this a rehersal for the Carnegie Hall concerts?

[fopstra]

I really could not say...

[claptonfan1000000]

@nbalbert It really looks like the band from the cover of that album!

[claptonfan1000000]

@claptonfan1000000 "Thelonious Monk at Town Hall" is the one I'm thinking of.

[TonyBurrell2]

@nbalbert

No, it was for a European tour with an Octet including Johnny Griffin, Phil Woods and Charlie Rouse. Seems like they used an adaptation of the 1963 Carnegie Hall Arrangements though.

[TonyBurrell2]

@nbalbert

No, it was for a European tour with an Octet including Johnny Griffin, Phil Woods and Charlie Rouse. Maybe Larry Gales on Bass? Seems like they used an adaptation of the 1963 Carnegie Hall Arrangements though.

[andrewwangemann]

@nbalbert Town Hall Concert, I believe.

[laughingtiger123]

@nbalbert Nope... a European tour prior to the Town Hall concert. They got there and Monk had no arrangements.

[laughingtiger123]

@nbalbert Sorry... AFTER the Town Hall concert. Monk didn't get the charts before they flew. LOL