Thelonious Monk - Bye Bye When The Morning Comes - 1963

[2300skiddoo]

I think Sun Ra was from Birmingham - much weirder than Mars!

[2300skiddoo]

Well, I see where you're coming from better from your last comment, but in fact Monk worked his arrangements out as carefully as Oscar Peterson or Bud Powell. There's a long recording someone has now released of him going through the process, making an arrangement of a standard, trying different things, putting it together. One way to realize how intentional it all is is to reflect that, no matter what key he plays in, he gets the same effects - that won't happen unless you''re being precise.

[2300skiddoo]

Well, funk45750, it's nice to see that you have figured out that Mr. Monk doesn't know what he's doing. He sure had fooled a lot of people, like all the greatest jazz musicians of the last 50 years. But of course, what do they know?

[funk45750]

@2300skiddoo

No i never said he didn't know what he was doing, he knows what he's doing. but he really does improvise completely always does he not? and I'm saying even his crude on the spot playing is better than what most people take time to develope. that's all i'm saying. and crude's not bad just different; monk's from mars sun ra's from... well. he came from somewhere.

[sharifah2006]

BYE N BYE WHEN THE MORNING COMES...........ALL THE SAINTS OF GOD WILL GATHER HOME AND TELL THE STORY HOW WE HAVE OVER COME AND YOU'LL UNDERSTAND IT BETTER BYE AND BYE..........GREAT JOB PIANO MASTER

[funk45750]

man thats good but its kinda crappy too

listen to :50 till the end

he makes these songs up on the spot

or at least under ten minutes.

55-60 he's DEFINITELY hunting and pecking hahahah

man think what he coulda do if he took the time to get this shit down pat.

what a B a d A s s

[reanueax724]

man of great hats.

[HOTCOKEORDERS]

He always respected original melody.Innocent pianist.

[moxievisioninfo]

He was so great, but my heart is with Eric Watson, really unkown is the US, but just great like Monk.

[petitrobert100]

GENIOUS. SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

[dmlevitt]

dont think i ever saw this footage. thanks for posting. monk is my hero.

[tomitstube]

the magic is in the hat.

[postatility]

As the jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd once said,Monk's playing is "as honest as a child's"

[siemensnokia]

like his rhythm on this track!!

[Tabla461]

john fahey of the piano.

[keyzcity]

I keep looking for a reason to study piano music other than Monk's and I can't do it.

[RobeGre]

I'm sure Monk didn't think this tune was "corny"...

[realgwoodard]

Perfect timing!

[avril2]

Isn't it also 'Abide with me'?

[RobeGre]

No.

[RobeGre]

The tune is actually called Bye and Bye. It's an old hymn that Monk will have known since childhood. There are some great recorded versions by Louis Armstrong, George Lewis, Jim Robinson & various New Orleans brass bands. Thanks for posting this.

[mahoganyflame]

thr piano is a beautifful instrument and he played it very well

[meepshizzleyams]

this is great

[DajaWaja]

joder que bonito, eh??

Monkito, siempre con buena musica

[wailflower]

Rev. Charles A. Tindley. We Will Understand It Better By and By.

[PatrickSchabus]

the background is very nice.

[tomitstube]

Sounds like some Foster, my old kentucky home, jazzersized, it's a fun one to spritz

[crazcurlz]

love it love it love it LOVE IT

[hremdldw]

Thelionious was the pianist for a Evangelist in his teens in the late 1930's.This tune is a old spirtual I remember it from when I was a child,Monk brings back fond memories,with beatuiful stride piano and deep respect for the hymn.

[hremdldw]

That's Pentcostal Music From the Black Church, Monk in the 1930's late was on the road with an Evangelist.On Riverside date with Coleman Hawkins Monk plays Abide With Me.Once and interviewer asked Monk what kind of music he liked? Monk answer was good music,the interviewer said even country? Monk reply was is the man deaf? In other words Monk liked all music but just played well.

[zyruemusic]

Thelonious Monk ...A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART!!!....Is the man DEAF???? LOL!!!!

[EvanCrofton]

One of the best songs I have ever heard

[vidimah]

great movie

[sproetproductions]

flikke rop mrt je kutmusziek

[hurting]

He had a way of making the corniest song sound gorgeous

[pianojazz66]

Pure beauty!

[WayneLondon]

one minute, three seconds of perfection.

[KESSWN]

The greatest jazz pianist that ever lived

[Hindele]

Ýes, perhaps greater than Garner, Yancey, Teddy Wilson, Bud Powell.

[JPF37]

Short and sweet!