So why wasn't Charlie Rouse crowned the best sax player ever?

Ill help you out.....if a piece is difficult to play it's only because it breaks conventions. If you are trained a certain way, Monk ( and others ) won't make sense.

Monk s music give another dimension to Jazz . The artist was not just a mere musician he was a genius artist. lts wise to study him . Thanks for this lesson and l love to have more of him

Very interesting but please don't call them songs - songs have words and Monks own compositions don't!

I listen to it early in the morning with my coffee. It's good.

Congratulations on the new baby!

Nailed it.

It's music that has a good meaning and a beautiful melody.

Wow, 11/8. Nice meter. Keeps ya counting!

Another thing is in bar 4 of the tune the way that monk played it was F7 Bb7sus Bb-7 A7 instead of what the real book writes

Fabulous !

Very insightful. I'm playing this song for my recital

Tasty!

lovely!

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Nice playing bro, how did you make the video look like that ? That's cool

Esoteric jazzisms

Muito bom. Obrigado.

My hands are small and I cant play those open 9th chords, why should I do?

Whose version starts at 3:14?

Well you needn't play the 7ths.

I like both versions but I see the point

Thats a very goo video!

Yes! and that second lead sheet posted near the end seems to be Miles' wrong changes and wrong melody. And because the first (illegal) real book printed it that way, generations of young players have played it wrong with their eyes instead of right with their ears. Thanks!

I haven't read all the comments, but why not call it a sus2 chord open voicing?

I enjoy Thelonious Monk, composition: Evidence, somehow minimalist yet much more. Peace to all.

Real good work. However your use of "Ambient Music" in the middle of the video is not necessary. My two-cents.

Thanks for an interesting video. Really like these 'what the real book doesn't tell you' videos.

Screw the intro. Riyoko Takagi doesn't play it.

The Real Book also leaves out verses.

love this

Stop bullshitting. There are tons of songs taken from hundreds of musicals that do not have the start of the song in the books because they are not the focus of the tune and waste time and paper. The most famous version has an intro. But it's not what's documented for sale as sheet music. So it's no more at fault than hundreds of thousandds of pubhlished works.

Haha I thought there will be also words about the great bossa-nova OUTRO)))

💯 value for time. I feel tonloads smarter already. Thank you for educating me. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

So different from Bill Evans. Love them both.

Try playing that as stacked 4ths ala 9 5 1?

To me intros are very important and over-looked by so many players...even good players. The idea of setting up a tune with a 4 or 8 bar intro vamp is really sad. The outro thing is also important. Man listening to Keith Jarrett taught me this!! If you take the intros and ride-outs seriously, they will be just as important as the tune itself.

One of the best videos on KZbin featuring some of my heroes in jazz.

Rolland Hannah does a great Round Midnight. I'm pretty sure it uses Dizzy's into. Check it out, it's great!

barry harris talks abt this he calls it 6th diminished scale

Hi, I have been playing piano for about 3-4 years, but I feel like my technique and my rhythm have not improved. Could you please give me tips on how I could improve on them and also time measures? And im also unterested in jazz, so what could i do to start with jazz piano? Thank you

Barry Harris adds his own intro before that one and it’s killing

I just noticed a really nice touch to this video, which is that the lofi background music is playing the interval he is talking about on the pad

Monk's secret is not a technical one. There is nothing in any Monk tune that you cannot study and work/practice on from a technical level. And you do need to put all the work in and his use of odd measured arrangements is one of the topics one needs to learn to deal with as it is quiet typical for him. But the real secret to a Monk tune is Monk. His attitude and personality shine through his compositions and playing. He has a child-like wanderlust and drive for exploration which is kind of unique to him. Many people reduce it to what they call "monkisms" but my problem with that is that it gets reduced to certain licks or things you do. While that is correct in a sense, you cannot see those things separate from the man and his personality himself. The only guy I know who can really convincingly pull off Monk tunes by embodying that whole spirit of Monk and thus playing it on Monk's terms is Chick Corea.

this is profound . thank you.

The Real Book does not tell you too many other things about this music. I've always referred to the Real Book as "the biggest misprint in sheet music." The Real Book is the pied piper of modern music.

Brilliant

That’s a LOT of cats

It seems to me there are a lots of errors in the real book

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