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

Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales & Ben Riley

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Music

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• Thelonious
• Monk
• Rhythm-a-ning
• Jazz
• 625

[OopBopShBam]

thanks ;-)

Everybody have solid swing in this Video.

Monk, Rouse, Gales & Riley is a unit.

[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

[LGLG69]

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

[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

[natebiz]

@charlieparkerman sounds pentatonic blues?

[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?

[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

[MrsBlack88]

@dramione454 doesnt he? the music is amazing.

[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.

[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.