Thelonious Monk Quartet in Poland April 1966

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00:00:00 Epistrophy
00:03:20 Round Midnight
00:10:30 Lulu's Back In Town
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charles Rouse - tenor
Lawrence Gales - bass
Benjamin Riley - drums

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@timkjazz 7 жыл бұрын

this is the stuff youtube was created for, historic recordings you'd never hear and see anywhere else in your life.

@silverangel2010 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Timkjazz, I appreciate so much that you ,as a beautifull yuongster that you are into the real jazzmusic from the past! I am so lucky that I was there in these period. Monk, Miles, Griffin, Coltrane, Art Blakey, Philly Jo Jones, Stan Getz, Bill Evans ( we drove together in my car to a concert In Amsterdam).check my photobook "My Jazz Moments' maybe you find it on internet...many jazz bebop greetings, thanks Frits !!

@allisonloxsom7203 3 жыл бұрын

I agree, brought up on jazz and classical. I think I'd better check into the year of this, not sure if I was born yet. Stumbled on this that it would make a nice lullaby! Enjoy!

@missesbaileysbillbailey2559 3 жыл бұрын

No @ImaginarilyInc Exists

@OswaldoGoite 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong. It was created to post shitty cats videos. Then people realized they could give it a worthiest use to it.

@darkpoetik5375 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, miss...we needed to hear that...always good to find people who love jazz :-)

@HHATJB 9 жыл бұрын

Everybody-don't you wish we could have him back? Forget all the criticism here. For one night, bring Monk back.

@076657 5 жыл бұрын

Make a fundme page

@Suchapill 3 жыл бұрын

Better make it a month or two. Can you imagine the media fest and the crowds?

@paqallqu1182 2 жыл бұрын

i did that one time. with a lot of drugs

@moussegarbonzo8352 Жыл бұрын

@@paqallqu1182 I did a lot of drugs one time. With a that.

@nakedmambo 7 жыл бұрын

I love how Monk always fell back on stride piano as his basis. He didn't play it as some kind of historical throwback nod to 'jazz origins' he really was a stride pianist, but with the hugest array of modern dissonances in his harmonies. In this way he encompasses it all. He was the real deal.

@michazielinski4130 11 ай бұрын

the only dissonance is slight detune of instruments (biggest detune between piano and sax)

@jayswizzle57 11 ай бұрын

All of Monks compositions are full of dissonance. It’s one of the things that make his music so unique and beautiful.

@jorymil 10 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking! Monk is a stride pianist who loves the whole-tone scale.

@bobpike2868 10 ай бұрын

Monk,indeed is and was, as unique a pianist and full of my favorite kind of dissonance notes to rely on.

@TrenerekMuchomorek-TM 9 ай бұрын

@@michazielinski4130sax off the tune. It’s merely in the melody.

@adamlawrenceturner2191 10 жыл бұрын

Monk had an incredible harmonic and rhythmic sensitivity. He often sounds late, but somehow, he is always perfectly on time.

@sitarnut 4 жыл бұрын

Monk operated outside of the "Sphere" of rhythm and time......

@Aenima308 8 жыл бұрын

This transcends cool

@JoeSmith-wn3ys 8 жыл бұрын

This is a great piece of history. People getting caught up in tearing down the performers are missing the music to spite their faces. Their loss. I love every second of this.

@xoen6 6 ай бұрын

Yes.

@bonganigeorge2415 6 ай бұрын

Fascinated

@rgalesnyc 3 жыл бұрын

So awesome !! Larry Gales is my great uncle..great to see him in his prime.

@gregorywilliams7151 2 жыл бұрын

...and he's swangin' his butt off here...sheeesh!!! Blessings!!!

@josephtravers777 Жыл бұрын

He and Ben Riley caught fire on the European tours. This was just a teaser for TV.

@g500d 9 жыл бұрын

Love the bass player smoking a pipe. things were cooler in the 50's.

@plantdaddy3420 4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, but that pipe must have been very juicy after a while... XD

@danielweaver4782 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I looked as cool in a suit.

@janosszeky8471 4 жыл бұрын

60s.

@tsp1mwd 11 жыл бұрын

Celebrating Monk's Birthday again. University of Columbia radio station has been honoring his birthday by playing his music from midnight to midnight for decades. I just love October 10.

@daveo6277 11 ай бұрын

How lucky y'all were!

@bandicoot5412 3 жыл бұрын

He's revolutionizing music as he moves.

@cavaleer 12 жыл бұрын

So much swag on that stage...hahaha....just classic.

@OswaldoGoite 2 жыл бұрын

Charlie Rouse is a criminally underrated player... I just needed to say that...

@LeonardWaks Жыл бұрын

Possibly the best saxaphone player ever to play with Monk. Coltrane and Sonny Rollins were both great players and both worked well with him - Rollins probably better. But Rouse had a unique sympathy for Monk's music.

@morbidmanmusic Жыл бұрын

painfully out of tune here.

@jbOneEarth 10 ай бұрын

For his facial expressions alone!

@Archie583 7 ай бұрын

@@morbidmanmusic I had to look through the comments to make sure it wasn't just me! He's a quarter step sharp!

@AquaticMammalOnBicycle 5 ай бұрын

Yeah what was that? I assume it's either piano or the recording system causing that, because sax is easy to tune on the spot isn't it by adjusting the mouthpiece? Some parts were clearly out of tune, way beyond the normal dissonance that Monk plays @@morbidmanmusic

@charleslecuyer4996 7 жыл бұрын

Pure Monk.

@postatility9703 3 ай бұрын

There are a ton of Monk videos available on YT,but this has to be the most unusual.Glad I found it!❤

@inialny 5 жыл бұрын

Poland, oppressed back then by the USSR, loved Thelonious Monk, so Poles made and preserved these historical recordings.

@vicngony1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Poland

@Yanquirocker 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, thanks

@ashbell1046 3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit. I thought Rouse was playing sharp by a semitone but he was ‘sounding’ FLAT. If Poles based their tunings on the western model it makes total sense. Russian pianos would have been Tuned several cents sharper than Western pianos, and string and wind players from America would have been set in their ways so to speak.

@inialny 3 жыл бұрын

@@ashbell1046 :)

@MelanieYork-ij9jj 5 ай бұрын

Interesting history and oppression is going strong in many countries.

@joemcfatter1170 10 жыл бұрын

America's Classical music.

@AmericanShia786 8 жыл бұрын

As a Tenor Saxophonist myself, I always liked Charlie Rouse. He may not be Coltrane, nor my favorite Tenor man with Monk, Johnny Griffin, but Rouse is more than good enough. I can never get enough Monk.

@rpkrauss1 6 жыл бұрын

Charlie was Monk.....

@hellbooks3024 3 жыл бұрын

Little Giant would ask Monk to “stroll.” Rouse is the only sax player on Monk’s level. Not that I don’t love Griffin.

@ebaylistentomusic 3 жыл бұрын

As a tenor player I too agree. I saw Rouse once with Sphere, also Johnny and Sonny. With Monk , Rouse was the man.

@viggosimonsen 3 жыл бұрын

But as always - way out of tune

@mickeysoltys6960 2 жыл бұрын

Johnny Griffin was special.

@darzil007 Жыл бұрын

Mr Charlie Rouse true master , melodic trad inns , one of the greatest before even I was born .

@morbidmanmusic Жыл бұрын

horribly out of tune. His mouth piece needed to be pulled back. he was sharp thru all of this.

@rikusuomela6330 9 жыл бұрын

This is history, and oh God what kind of

@My100277 10 жыл бұрын

Monk's treatment of LuLu's back in town, genuis yet a tad bit eerie. The chords are so monkish

@retthok 8 жыл бұрын

40 years ago when I first heard Monk and his band I thought "out of tune" also. I didn't get it either. Now I do, as a sixty year old, get it. To me the music represents the way life really is, sometimes in tune and sometimes not.

@FaceFeeder 6 жыл бұрын

It's called dissonance ;)

@davidkelemen8947 6 жыл бұрын

fucking wise!

@neweramusic3721 3 жыл бұрын

So true...

@AquaticMammalOnBicycle 5 ай бұрын

This is the only Monk recording I've ever heard where part of it sounds out of tune. Not dissonance. @@FaceFeeder

@jackdelaporte4695 2 ай бұрын

The piano is way out.@@AquaticMammalOnBicycle

@hudentdw2 4 жыл бұрын

Round Midnight always gives me tears the melody takes me to so many places I've been one time or another in my lifetime, difficult to explain.

@maxchristie1619 10 жыл бұрын

love Thelonius, found I couldn't bear Rouse's pitch, but the genius of Monk is wondrous to behold

@9monava 12 жыл бұрын

This is priceless on so many levels! THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!

@josecamilo1640 4 жыл бұрын

Monk Genious!!

@EleazarOctavioRuizSpreafico 5 жыл бұрын

Ladies and gentlemen, Larry Gales!!! What a monster!

@leonardostrano1342 10 жыл бұрын

Monk è per me uno dei vertici del jazz e della musica in genere, fin dalle prime volte che l'ho ascoltato. Una figura a tratti inquietante, quasi appartenesse a un'altra dimensione...

@georgianabloom1722 4 жыл бұрын

Although my mother played jazz piano when I was a child, I didn't really "get" it until I was in college. And Monk was my hero. In fact I named my cool, wild cat after him, which he probably wouldn't appreciate. But it was done with love. Man, I would love to have been in just one of those sessions.

@SuperStuey2 7 жыл бұрын

Totally insane, total genius.

@astrolopes 7 жыл бұрын

masterfully edited! those in between moments are precious

@thebp9999 9 жыл бұрын

Such a great band.

@theos6848 Жыл бұрын

His quartet features the classic lineup of Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on Bass and Ben Riley on Drums

@keithperdue4993 2 жыл бұрын

I don't understand why it took me until almost 70 yrs old to "get it" & enjoy listening to this stuff...did I get dropped on my head as a kid & require so many years to recover? Wish these guys were still here playing...

@ergbudster3333 10 жыл бұрын

I totally love this video. Thanks Clean.

@robstrange 11 жыл бұрын

Truly excellent. Wonderful!

@nilanecargocult988 9 жыл бұрын

superbe document : on voit ici que le quartet usuel de monk n'avait pas besoin de répéter, monk en nage, gales avec sa pipe et rouse et riley discutant dans leur coin lulu's back in town !

@waxeye6488 6 жыл бұрын

D'accord

@LuOlutosin 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Rashid!

@islamicchronicles5381 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

@mirazusta2002 3 жыл бұрын

This is a piece of priceless vintage footage. Thank you very much indeed for posting it.

@hanio01 9 ай бұрын

何か凄く濃厚な味わいのあるオブリガードや安定ある緊張感が心地よいです

@Ducky-ze1ls 11 ай бұрын

that might be the best bass solo of all time, the drummer held him up too

@EIFEstudiodeiluminacionNoguera 10 жыл бұрын

The strangeness of a unique and incomparable sound. Really Pure Genius!

@michazielinski4130 11 ай бұрын

really pure detune

@ilpezkato 6 жыл бұрын

Lawrence Gales was so cool... Thank you!!!!

@dromeres 10 жыл бұрын

great video, thanks.

@davidmaslow399 3 жыл бұрын

Extraordinarily Wonderful!

@mikestubenvoll5708 4 жыл бұрын

ITS A STONE GROOVE MY MAN

@christophermestas1244 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video! Love Monk 😎🎹

@TimBsTechTalk 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is great!

@kurapika180 11 жыл бұрын

Esto es una maravilla, como todo lo de Monk. Muchas gracias por subirlo.

@stephenclark7932 3 жыл бұрын

The tenor saxophonist's pitch is very SHARP!!!

@TheTralfaz 5 ай бұрын

at last...someone brave enough to call it out....hes a great player...but they didnt tune up for this one....too much reefer

@pmccarty 4 ай бұрын

Perhaps the piano needed tuning

@davidbarth8204 17 күн бұрын

@@pmccarty Looks like the studio was very hot with them sweating away. Maybe it threw stuff out of tune a bit but great music!

@drunknfis 12 жыл бұрын

only 6,882 views? truly a shame.....and 47 likes? stop the ride! i want off this planet now!

@georgeparkins777 8 жыл бұрын

This was fifty years ago next month. Man, the time flies!

@maciejgrzesiak 11 ай бұрын

i wtedy i dzisiaj to nowoczesne granie.

@LeeGee 12 жыл бұрын

Nice! Thanks, I'll dig around for it.

@tony499 Жыл бұрын

fantastyczne wystąpienie

@michazielinski4130 11 ай бұрын

i jak pięknie nastrojone instrumenty

@cavaleer 12 жыл бұрын

Monk was a crafty man. hahaha. I'm sure there's an interesting story behind it but Poland seemed to get American culture back then fairly frequently. There's a video of Alica Coltrane and her trio playing in Warsaw using an old beat up harp. It must have been in the early 70s.

@andrebernardes9212 12 жыл бұрын

Thelonious, simplesmente um gênio.Faltam personalidades assim nesses tempos que vivemos...

@dianebonneau2350 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, thrilling keeping us close to Monk. Eternally classic and minor key, too

@ACDC666SatrianiVai 6 жыл бұрын

From 9:30 - 9:50, the last runs leading in to the last sax note make it sound out of tune, but Monk's final flourish turned it into the sun rising over the horizon whilst birds chirp in the trees

@grahamhartill1886 5 жыл бұрын

Pressed dislike by mistake! Sorry! BIG mistake!

@LeonardWaks Жыл бұрын

On Lulu, the sax is out of tune with the piano. Being Poland and 1966, who knows the condition of the piano.

@steveobro49 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was trying to listen for the piano being out of tune it’s actually not because when he does that downward run all across the keyboard, it’s right in there he was intentionally playing design and using diminished flat chords

@logosferas1 10 жыл бұрын

IIImpresionante joya mística la que se toca este señor...

@DisplayFaith 3 жыл бұрын

Gosh, what a phenomenal share! What peaceful talents they have.....

@danielruizcastilla5167 2 ай бұрын

Sencillamente fenomenal.

@lacasadecirco 9 ай бұрын

wauuu un pasada ! que manera de disfrutar estos 26:37, grandiosas composiciones ! maravillosos músicos! esto un regalo para la eternidad!

@darzil007 Жыл бұрын

This is a jewel, not happen again . Tanx

@paulobianchi2577 5 ай бұрын

Fantástico!!!

@LeeGee 10 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@whykatera81 10 жыл бұрын

Dam these people are so fucking cool! look at how they walk and talk to eachother.. the way they play... I sometimes wish really badly that i was black... Maybe in the next life!

@memeexclusive 10 жыл бұрын

Initially upon reading your comment,as a black man I found them disparaging and condescending however after watching this post for the last couple of months I am a bit remissed in my attitude.This is the quintenssential in COOL and has to be at the apex thereof.

@goback3spaces 10 жыл бұрын

memeexclusive Imagine how you would've felt if he said he was glad he wasn't black.

@MarioCalzadaMusic 8 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@BrennanJTC 11 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday, Monk! :-D

@SpookyCapp 10 жыл бұрын

Holy mother of Mary!

@xoen6 6 ай бұрын

Legend.

@kempo9jo 10 жыл бұрын

素晴らしい！

@kohada64 10 жыл бұрын

The group on this date consists of Thelonious Monk, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; and Ben Riley, drums.

@puttieyum 3 жыл бұрын

Yesss!

@jwdekanter 10 жыл бұрын

Wow! Nice good Monk

@terrywestbrook-lienert2296 10 жыл бұрын

The Glenn Gould of jazz. He had the right stuff...pure genius!

@johnk8174 6 жыл бұрын

me too

@edbea2 3 жыл бұрын

Terry Westbrook-Lienert Glenn Gould has nothing to do with this culture, or creativity, and it's a false comparison in my view. Monk must be turning over in his grave. Compare not. Monk is...Monk. There is no comparison, and he is certainly not "The Gould of Jazz", but I do agree, Monk is a genius, but completely unique. No one like him before, during, or after him. Purely original as it relates to playing piano.

@AquaticMammalOnBicycle 5 ай бұрын

Yeah that Gould thing was one of the worst comments I've ever seen on youtube @@edbea2

@autpt 4 ай бұрын

Best Monk capture

@ashbell1046 3 жыл бұрын

Man! Charlie Rouse is playin almost a halftone sharp throughout ! Really disconcerting! Such a beautiful historical object nonetheless.

@CLIMAXA.MAATHTHU.NAATTAAMA 2 ай бұрын

Did you see that Short (snippet from a TV show) in which Miles Davis raps on the knuckles of/advises a young Trumpet boy to play it in E flat instead of the D natural on the sheet?

@markbrecher4914 10 жыл бұрын

This is pure Jazz Gold,,

@realmusic97 12 жыл бұрын

monk = my god

@keithstack6321 10 жыл бұрын

love the rhythm around 6:30

@drunknfis 12 жыл бұрын

Beauty is for the few...

@pyannie6904 Жыл бұрын

such a huge sound from Wendell Marshall. hard to believe just that little mic on a box, lol!

@yYp4rtybo1Xx 11 жыл бұрын

thaaak !

@ahmedbousanjani8098 11 жыл бұрын

Nice one with a nice cuppa coffe in the morning. Cheers.

@simonesain3395 11 жыл бұрын

Qué capo, por dios.

@MasterrFlamaster 12 жыл бұрын

Jazz was kind of (for what I know, because I'm too young cat to remember those times) thing PZPR (leading party in Poland for communist era) permitted from 60's onward to keep society "sane" from anti-western propaganda (the same thing later happened with punk rock, they decided that if they can not stop it, they will at least control it to some point). Poland had very good jazz festival during this era called Jazz Jamboree - Miles, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and many others performed on it

@sivvek84 10 жыл бұрын

Benjamin Riley

@cenoviopereira8603 2 ай бұрын

It's like a short movie

@jjlivepattern 9 ай бұрын

comparing Rouse to Trane to Griffen is like comparing apples to oranges to pears. Rouse was and is my favorite ‘match’ with Monk. 3 great tenor players for all time but for me, Rouse had the right tone and feel for this sound. Warmer and freer. All subjective which is they way it should be. And I love Griffen and Trane too of course

@keithdease853 3 жыл бұрын

Abstract crazy. JAZZ

@jjlivepattern 9 ай бұрын

..who cares Rouse is hittin a little ‘high’ here. There’s a range in the mids on that piano that sound slightly pitched as well. Still great. To the ‘complainers ‘ below although he’s not ‘that kind of person’ I’m sure Rouse can blow you guys out of town. Thankfully Monk recorded with different tenor players. Gives the universe different universes. world peace

@thraft 2 жыл бұрын

At 5:37 is a secret 'smack da piano with your elbow' technique

@AquaticMammalOnBicycle 5 ай бұрын

lol I saw that in the awesome hilarious contest scene in the movie "Joplin" from 1977 on youtube recently, I didn't think I'd see it in real life real deal by Thelonious Monk

@jppontat2995 3 жыл бұрын

Never to be understood, but unreachable for all except the very few... too sweet for the teeth of the savage...

@elliota888 10 жыл бұрын

Charlie Rouse always kept his sax tuned like that, it's his sound.

@stanleyscott9786 10 жыл бұрын

Not enough contemporaries in this thread have spent time listening to Charlie Rouse. Yes, elliota888, this is his sound! :.)

@elliota888 10 жыл бұрын

Stanley Scott I wonder how he actually gets that sound - does he bite down real hard? or is he blowing through the upper part of his embouchure? always wondered, it's certainly unique to him. Am sure Monk wouldn't let him play out of tune, dude had standards.

@stanleyscott9786 10 жыл бұрын

Good question elliota888. I don't directly know the answer. My limited training on alto makes me think a combination of pressure and placement yielded the result. It was consistently Charlie! Like u say, Monk never suffered fools.

@whoopiemudra 10 жыл бұрын

The sharp sax becomes part of the harmonic flavor. If you listen closely to the very end of his phrases, he comes down often to standard pitch. Dizzy often played sharp, too.

@076657 5 жыл бұрын

Plutopete Birch I don't get it. Doesn't make any sense. I can't enjoy it. It's out of tune. It's sad because they obviously are all geniuses that would sound so good together. Monk's solos are so perfect. He sounds like he has no bullshit filter, everything he plays means it and fita the changes but mostly the song.