Thelonious Monk Quartet in Poland April 1966

[@timkjazz]

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

[@silverangel2010]

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]

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]

No @ImaginarilyInc Exists

[@OswaldoGoite]

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

[@darkpoetik5375]

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

[@adamlawrenceturner2191]

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

[@sitarnut]

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

[@rgalesnyc]

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

[@gregorywilliams7151]

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

[@josephtravers777]

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

[@Aenima308]

This transcends cool

[@astrolopes]

masterfully edited! those in between moments are precious

[@joemcfatter1170]

America's Classical music.

[@retthok]

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]

It's called dissonance ;)

[@davidkelemen8947]

fucking wise!

[@neweramusic3721]

So true...

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

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

[@jackdelaporte4695]

The piano is way out.@@AquaticMammalOnBicycle

[@hanio01]

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

[@darzil007]

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

[@morbidmanmusic]

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

[@maxchristie1619]

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

[@ergbudster3333]

I totally love this video. Thanks Clean.

[@theos6848]

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

[@EIFEstudiodeiluminacionNoguera]

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

[@michazielinski4130]

really pure detune

[@Thanks-Tokyo]

Thanks for uploading!

[@darzil007]

This is a jewel, not happen again . Tanx

[@dromeres]

great video, thanks.

[@g500d]

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

[@plantdaddy3420]

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

[@danielweaver4782]

I wish I looked as cool in a suit.

[@janosszeky8471]

60s.

[@andrebernardes9212]

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

[@jameswebb4593]

Monk was one strange character . I cannot recall who , but a bass player with him for six months said during that time Monk never conversed with him. Regardless of his eccentricities he is still my favorite Jazz pianist .

[@LuOlutosin]

Thanks for sharing Rashid!

[@Ducky-ze1ls]

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

[@domibob972]

Monk is unique ❤ An Intimate and historical session

[@TimBsTechTalk]

Wow! This is great!

[@ACDC666SatrianiVai]

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]

Pressed dislike by mistake! Sorry! BIG mistake!

[@LeonardWaks]

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

[@steveobro49]

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

[@terrywestbrook-lienert2296]

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

[@johnk8174]

me too

[@edbea2]

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]

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

[@ashbell1046]

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

[@CLIMAXA.MAATHTHU.NAATTAAMA]

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?

[@SW13357]

Best Monk capture

[@andersbreispast1398]

Poland was a mekka for jazz brothers! Muchas graaaaacias!

[@pyannie6904]

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

[@9monava]

thank you for all that! I did not know about the ban during Salazar...I am reading two books now about the bans during Nazi Germany....."jazz is a living language" -- I will hold that thought close to heart. All of us need to help everyone get reconnected with higher level thought and feelings. Keep it up!

[@jasonevans4970]

The US don't seem to really value what they have in terms of jazz lineage and education which seems a great pity. I don't know whether in decline is the right phrase so much as taken for granted: massively for granted. Musicians like Monk poured their heart and soul into every note and gave the world a much greater gift than a million moonshots.

[@polishsilverstacker3246]

Poland really appreciated Jazz at that time. See also Jazz in Poland 1966...

[@blankowvsingt]

USA has no culture at all how could they take it serious

[@bigwheel9132]

blankowv singt We have no singular culture; we have them ALL. I’m sorry that you aren’t one of the chosen few that have the privilege to reside here. Stay salty my friend.

[@jasonevans4970]

@@bigwheel9132 Nobody wants your fake "freedom" or your phoney "American Dream".

[@blankowvsingt]

@@bigwheel9132 you have Coca Cola and mc donalds yes... I like them I have to mention

[@elliota888]

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

[@stanleyscott9786]

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

[@elliota888]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[@rillloudmother]

Gales funkier than a muffuka even on that Sherlock tip.

[@jwdekanter]

Wow! Nice good Monk

[@LeeGee]

Yes!

[@MarioCalzadaMusic]

Wow!

[@larryfernandez1623]

Génial ! Donde puedo conseguir ese filme.

[@StephanJK]

This ist the definition of "cool"

[@076657]

Monk was the original hipster.

[@goedeck1]

Yeah

[@shaistahusain]

what's all this about the sax being out of tune. He always resolved at the right note, at least to me it sounded that way, and so who cares, it had flavor and it sounded different? I liked the sound, esp. for round midnight

[@Yanquirocker]

Seasoned just right at every moment

[@Nick215NY]

Monk always struck me as very close to being a madman. But he wasn't, he was a genius...

[@A.ChristopherJohnson]

Ben is the Illest !!!

[@benjamingcrockett]

That is the kind of sound check only Monk can do

[@EpicureanSwerve]

Audio is a little too soft for me to hear on Chromebook. But thanks anyway for posting!

[@EdBuGMEnRRB]

sweeeeeet

[@christophbader3713]

Does the Sax wants to be out of tune or is that accidential?

[@euclid1618]

Sharp McGee

[@wuxxxxxx]

Who's the drummer?

[@chikunchannel4427]

Desafinado

[@JosePedroMoutinho]

~ Part 2 ~ Of course that such a intense, extremely original and powerful aesthetic language was adopted as a weapon to fight the slavery, racism and white supremacy. The Jazz language and creative process it's one of the most free, automatical and immediate one in all art and musical history. The Jazz have politics connotations (whether we like it or not). In this sense, the "true" Jazz will be inopportune to the established powers.

[@blankowvsingt]

the muse of jazz is racism though

[@Yanquirocker]

Be that as it may, is this the place for your diatribe? Thanks for the analysis of the political implications of an amazing composition, improv & all...

[@blankowvsingt]

@@Yanquirocker without slavery there wouldn't have been blues without blues no jazz without jazz no funk without funk no hip hop so the muse of all black musicians was and still is the racism 😀

[@JazzAnnon]

Did i sense a bill hicks reference?

[@HHATJB]

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

[@076657]

Make a fundme page

[@Suchapill]

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

[@paqallqu1182]

i did that one time. with a lot of drugs

[@moussegarbonzo8352]

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

[@jjlivepattern]

..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

[@postatility9703]

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

[@drunknfis]

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

[@marrickvillian]

'Just because we oppose imperialist government US of A, we must hate superb jazz music also? Maybe we hate Tom and Jerry cartoon and blue jeans also , yes?' - they might have replied..

[@nakedmambo]

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]

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

[@jayswizzle57]

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

[@jorymil]

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

[@bobpike2868]

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

[@TrenerekMuchomorek-TM]

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

[@OswaldoGoite]

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

[@LeonardWaks]

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]

painfully out of tune here.

[@jbOneEarth]

For his facial expressions alone!

[@Archie583]

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

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

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

[@TCTSNBN]

Please throw your political views out the window. The best of bee-bop that we can watch today was recorded in Europe--communist or capitalist. I thank those folks for preserving this great art.

[@JoeSmith-wn3ys]

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]

Yes.

[@bonganigeorge2415]

Fascinated

[@ergbudster3333]

Slightly out of tune. Probably the piano slightly on a different frequency. (Clearly Thelonious didn't bring his own piano to Poland although I'm sure Charles brought his axe with him.) And Vovkin1001.. no, it was NOT normal for these guys to be out of tune. These are virtuosi musicians here.

[@golds04]

People say Monk had an odd rhythmic sense. One day they will realize Einstein was correct- monks sense of rhythm is normal- the world is off. Einstein’s 4th theory of relativity.

[@charleslecuyer4996]

Pure Monk.

[@inialny]

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

[@vicngony1]

Thank you Poland

[@Yanquirocker]

Yes, thanks

[@ashbell1046]

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]

@@ashbell1046 :)

[@MelanieYork-ij9jj]

Interesting history and oppression is going strong in many countries.

[@LeeGee]

Superb - and in Communist Poland? What's the story?

[@9monava]

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

[@josecamilo1640]

Monk Genious!!

[@My100277]

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

[@cavaleer]

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.

[@pirackiswiat]

Amerkańska kultura była dla nas powiewem wolności

[@philipterzian6692]

Racist America? As opposed to, say, India? Show me the African musician/politician/composer/novelist/actor flourishing in South Asia. Or better yet, whose son can marry an Indian without risking death ...

[@seanwintersax]

Charlie Rouse, such a tasty player. Too bad he's pretty out of tune in this performance.

[@rpkrauss1]

seanwinter sax :: On purpose I might add...

[@076657]

rpkrauss1 why. Sounds awful. Also sounding sharp is so annoying. If it was flat it's be more bareable

[@hellbooks3024]

Saw Jackie McLean play in LA couple of times. He’d tune up precisely and meticulously with his bandmates, then proceed to blow his quarter tone sharp. That’s where he lived.

[@Krisselbee]

@@rpkrauss1 It´s not on purpose, he is not that out of tune usually. I still like the performance

[@EleazarOctavioRuizSpreafico]

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

[@vivvpprof]

He calls it correctly, in 1966 Poland had been subjugated by the communists so it can reasonably be called 'communist Poland'.

[@vivvpprof]

Oh my, here I am, returning to this video 11 years later 👀

[@pirackiswiat]

Polska została oddana ZSRR przez Brytyjczyków przy sprzeciwie USA i w 1945 tuż po wojnie i od razu było powstanie antykomunistyczne które upadło w 1955 roku

[@nilanecargocult988]

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]

D'accord

[@cavaleer]

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

[@stephenclark7932]

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

[@TheTralfaz]

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]

Perhaps the piano needed tuning

[@davidbarth8204]

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

[@bandicoot5412]

He's revolutionizing music as he moves.

[@tsp1mwd]

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]

How lucky y'all were!

[@AmericanShia786]

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]

Charlie was Monk.....

[@hellbooks3024]

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]

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

[@viggosimonsen]

But as always - way out of tune

[@mickeysoltys6960]

Johnny Griffin was special.

[@rikusuomela6330]

This is history, and oh God what kind of

[@robertburnett3528]

The critics here. Like Monk doesn't know what he or the group are doing. And the "pipe" critic?... aaargh... Robert Burnett.

[@47sojourner]

Me thinks Charlie Rouse had a bad head cold that night! Don't think he heard shit.

[@maxchristie1619]

Luke Bailey sharp, but agreed, he's not there

[@LeeGee]

Ironic, when you consider how non-white-skinned Americans were treated at home.

[@hudentdw2]

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.

[@whykatera81]

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]

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]

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

[@MasterrFlamaster]

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

[@leonardostrano1342]

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...

[@valvetrom]

reminds me on John Cage

[@Yanquirocker]

Reminds me of Bix Beiderbecke and Fats Waller

[@thebp9999]

Such a great band.

[@40binks]

Would the split reed make the tenor sound out of tune.......and at 11.27 I had to shut down.....

[@thraft]

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

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

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

[@georgianabloom1722]

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.

[@valinhosvideos]

all band is incredible, genius !! but saxophone is so out of tune, My ear bleeds, I just can't hear. I'm amazed that musicians can play with the sax almost half a tone higher. affliction 😖!!

[@phillmodjeski8043]

TVP Kultura began in 2005 - who recorded this???

[@tomaszband]

just TVP, there was only one channel, before "lulu,s..." 10: 32 there is e voice of soundengineer :)

[@dram5780]

He loved hats. People used to give them to him, but at this point he was going bald and vain. Most of the iconic images where taken when he was older.

[@keithperdue4993]

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...

[@maciejgrzesiak]

i wtedy i dzisiaj to nowoczesne granie.

[@oriraykai3610]

Audio levels are pure crap here. Very frustrating.

[@cleantones]

Feel free to move on

[@MrJtho165]

This recording is a gem that we would love to hear more often! Unfortunately, Charlie Rouse's saxophone is out of tune! This is very surprising from such a magical musician and not like him at all. Probably a bad cold... We forgive him !!! 🤩 😉

[@polishsilverstacker3246]

Compare Thelonious to "Polish Jazz 1966". Listen also to Komeda... and tell what you think.

[@sitarnut]

Know where you're coming from.. I listen to Komeda, Jerzy Milian, all those cats... good music and top players.

[@pirackiswiat]

​@@sitarnuta Jana Ptaszyna Wróblewskiego świętej pamięci?

[@SecOfunk]

Haha ...there is so many moments that flash signs of Avant Garde.

[@shapiro667]

how its that funny

[@SecOfunk]

Isaac Shapiro What?

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

Nothing about this ignorant comment is "haha" funny.

[@RBUN12]

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