THELONIOUS MONK 8

Thelonious Monk - Live in '66
This Playlist, which contains Thelonious Monk's two studio television performances taped in Oslo and Copenhagen in 1966, proves that seeing Monk is as important as hearing him. He's backed by his legendary quartet tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist Larry Gales, and drummer Ben Riley, who was forced to play with a spare borrowed drumkit. Save for the two renditions of the standard "Lulu's Back in Town" and another popular song, "Don't Blame Me," the rest of the six selections are pure Monk, including the spellbinding "Blue Monk," the algorithmic "Epistrophy," and of course, his eternal ballad "'Round Midnight," delivered here at a slightly faster tempo. Thelonious's flat-fingered touch,trancelike dancing (which Riley playfully mimics), fancy footwork at the keyboard, and wild choice of hats steal the show.

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Music

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• Thelonious
• Monk
• Live
• in
• '66

[0live0wire0]

4:29 Riley invents the robot dance

[thisismyname1987]

Beautiful *Sigh*.......

[DigimaxPhoto]

Pure poetry...There is nothing better than a Monk solo!

[awsomeoggy]

Monk doesn't play jazz in this clip. He lives it.

[awsomeoggy]

That b/w photography simply does so much justice to the coolness of these craftsmen of jazz. What a wonderful video. Mr. Monk is the very incarnation of jazz.

[suereed]

this would be better in colour.....