The Best 7 Minutes Of Music You've Ever Heard

Adam and Peter react to the master Thelonious Monk playing his iconic piece "Monk's Dream".
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[@EdSpargo]

This is the type of your videos I really love. Analyzing classics and suggesting moments we should really pay close attention to. I like when you stop the playback, describe the important element and then replay. More like this, thanks!

[@YoullHearIt]

Comin right up.

[@tomrees4812]

Thanx for explaining why Miles asked Monk not to play behind him on Bags Groove.

[@markyachnin1901]

I always love you guys, but this one of my favorite episode. Thanks!

[@dskinner6263]

Frankie Dunlop ❤

[@dave_manley]

Brilliant you're exploring this corner. More please. How about something on Carla Bley while she's still with us?

[@willieluncheonette5843]

Monk is my favorite jazz musician and one of my 3 all time favorite musicians. Of all Monk's gigging drummers I always liked Frankie the best. I've broken down a few Monk songs on youtube, such as Misterioso, Pannonica, I Surrender Dear and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes I think my all time favorite Monk track is "Round Midnight, the solo effort on the album Thelonious Himself. Big thanks for this post. Monk was called "a fountain of sweetness." YES!!

[@slimdugger99]

Sometimes people let thinking get in the way of experiencing. As musicians, we get the urge to pull apart and analyze but doing so ruins the overall joy of experiencing the whole. With Monk, the overall effect of the piece with all of its moving parts, harmonies and dissonances, rhythms and silences, make the experience unique. Just like Monk and his music. Thanks for reminding us guys.

[@HankusMaximus]

Dude can we get a lesson on what Peter is doing when he's dicking around @1:15

[@mwdrum]

Frankie was monks best drummer, several tunes he plays the head before monk……

[@WHALEBOY777]

Don't even play piano but it's clear that these guys have an immense passion and attention to detail when it comes to music. Very entertaining to listen to.

[@mwdrum]

Many musicians and jazz critics have commented monk was sloppy : bs, every line is perfect….

[@ZazenFlyin]

Kung fu master on the drums.

[@bobblues1158]

Rouse was the best sax player for Monk. The swing is incredible in this Band. This is really fun hanging with you guys and listening to music. It´s like when in the old days, after the gig we would hang and listen until 5 or 6 in the morning. After playing 5 sets 6 nights a week. Yes children, it was that way at one time in the far away past.

[@cvealjr3811]

Man…Frankie is swinging’, padnuh. Beautiful - thanks for bringing this to the table, men. Appreciate all you do. 🙏🏾

[@davidthomas3606]

Call-n-Response is the DNA of African Music...refer to "Black Mambazo" (Ladysmith).

[@drewmfie]

frankie dunlop reminds me a lot of kenny clarke; playful, extroverted, quirky, assertive, and intrusive for some, all qualities that monk's playing possessed.

[@thomasn.kussii5602]

"Monk was Lit on strong love chemical making him sweat profusely giving him that stretch space effect whereas you guys are doing it from Study which Charlie Parker went down same Road as Monk... Do you ever address this aspect of the Business? Important for Young Musicians!"

[@Jazzmaster58]

I have a good one for you guys. Straight no Chaser early recording on blue note, note how the first chord is so strange or vague if you will. I am trained on transcribing but Monk's chords throw me off to the point where I'm unable to figure it out. Maybe you guys can solve that mystery, the first chord behind the first phrase is very unusual.

[@777Witness]

What piano sound is Peter using here? Is it a vst or a keyboard?

[@doce7606]

At that Bruxelles gig Monk does a crazy shoe-shuffle walkabout during the tenor solo on Rhythm-ning... it is jaw-dropping... btw the 1965 BBC version of that tune has the best ride-cymbal sound and spangalang iv ever heard - the pushing bass creates a pocket wider than a wizard's sleeve...

[@InthekeysofO.T]

Monk is the best jazz teacher I've ever heard 😊

[@beathaven303]

Great breakdown on call and response.

[@julius5578]

When u realize that what they said at minute 6:00 was true in 7:17

[@werkzeugmann6224]

have loved monk charts since listening Buddy Rich band play Monks chart called "Astronaut" 45 years ago--was mind blowing! with simple swing beat, the vibraphone solo is the best most melodic vibe solo I've ever heard!! period

[@nickrees4706]

Many are called but few have responses. Monk is dope

[@CWBella]

Nice setup to see you both and the video is split screen. Monk dancing is great!

[@giovannigorelli8867]

Gaming

[@CWBella]

❤Intentionality, purposeful, playing the rests.

[@mcfahk]

I would've thoroughly enjoyed listening to Monk and then, maybe, hear what these two blokes have to say about it after. Perhaps. But all this starting and stopping... not for me. Have fun folks.

[@santibanks]

It's clear to see where Chick got his comping style from. Heavily Monk inspired. It was also on the Brilliant Corner session that the other horn player (Ernie Henry) had a complete nervous breakdown and asked Monk to be silent during his solo spot. And after many takes, the final edition is still an edit between two different takes. They never nailed it in one take.

[@matsuihenriques2013]

MONK was on a higher plane, his compositions were complex and beautiful. MONK was one of a kind. ♨️♨️♨️

[@mwdrum]

I worked - played with trumpet player Jerry tyree, Frankie was the drummer with Maynard Ferguson at the time, 50s ?

[@jimnutter6901]

I grew up on this. I understand the language so it is interesting to hear it analysed. From Au’s, born 1937. 🌹j.

[@MattCarter67]

I love that clip of Monk playing Evidence on Japanese TV.

[@paxwallace8324]

Yeah Miles understood his limitations and what made him sound. Not that he couldn't hear what Monk was up to. He also said he couldn't play with crashers. He needed Wynton Victor Bill Herbie.

[@mwdrum]

Monks solos are like a percussion mallet player, xylophone , vibes, marimba……

[@CualliMusic]

Appreciate hearing yall's insights into this amazing music. Thanks guys!

[@PhilHenDrums]

Thanks for giving the drummer some! I love the look on Frankie's face during that last chorus. I've had that feeling a few times. It's like he's saying: Yeah, we just laid down some crazy stuff, went all over the place, and now we're tight together at the end of all things--proving that we're doing exactly what we intended to do. We're not just lucky, we're tight; and it feels good.

[@alankirkby465]

I saw Thelonious Monk, play at The Free Trade Hall,Manchester, England, UK in 1961. This was Monks, very first Tour of UK. Art Blakey Jazz Messengers, with Lee Morgan/Bobby Timmons, was on the other half of this Concert. ( I was 21 years of age at that time) Sorry for being boringly nostalgic. Anyway, Peace to all.😮

[@PhilHenDrums]

@@alankirkby465 That would have been an incredible twin-bill!

[@HM55-77]

My fav Monk tune......maybe i should say performance !!!!

[@hubvreuls200]

Great analysis & appreciation of Monk & esp. Dunlop Fun😊

[@josephmartino9958]

Good ol' Charlie...hear him on "Underground"...Monk's tunes are the best!

[@mwdrum]

When monks gets up to dance, it’s swinging…..

[@GizzyDillespee]

Nice follow-up and thanks for taking out the magnifying glass in so many places

[@mgb1970]

Is this show released officially anywhere?

[@alextgordon]

1:10 I just want a whole podcast of Peter's comping

[@esiegel2]

monks left hand on the head is subtly different in each 4 bar phrase.

[@dufasaurjoe2899]

Hans Groiner for a more studious take on Monk.

[@damoon57]

I love the energy of your videos 💖💪🏻🌱

[@PaulieStamets]

I adore Monk and I love you guys. Thank you for everything you do

[@rich4444hrsm]

DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNN that is groovy

[@giampierogirolamo7134]

This lissening sessions are super helpful❤

[@Bruce.-Wayne]

What a concert that must have been....#monkforever

[@mariarohmer2374]

So gooooooodd.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@dariusmolark6820]

excellent.

[@chris_24189]

❤️

[@CWBella]

I really love these listening sessions!

[@giampierogirolamo7134]

❤

[@joshuatavares2384]

He and Ellington to me are the biggest influences for songwriting in jazz. To listen to Monk play Ellington and hear that he can play traditional jazz and then turn around and play these dense harmonic structures shows what a genius he truly was. “Brillant Corners” is the album of his work that I’ve listened to, shows him at his pinnacle and his confidence and freedom on this album is mind blowing. He is Monk and we should all be grateful he gave the music he did.

[@joshuatavares2384]

Here’s how profound his influence was, Coltrane would go to him and ask him to figure out chord structures and Miles would be forced to sit in with Monk by Bird just to understand music better. He is my biggest songwriter influence though I could never write in his style. He showed that you could use M2sd and m2sd in chords and then play this flawless part that belongs there. He played parts that might sound “off” to the listener, you know afterwards it was the only part that fit the music.

[@joshuatavares2384]

The Complerr Riverside records is a perfect start for those who might be unfamiliar with his music.

[@ChipTheMusicMan]

Love it - thanks guys! (Also I left you a SpeakPipe the other day for fun!)

[@chartliner]

Rick Beato said that an Oscar Petersen solo with his trio was the best solo ever and he said that part of Keith Jarrett's Bremen Lausanne concert was the most beautiful few minutes of piano ever. BTW... it's disrespectful and irritating for you to talk as the music is playing.

[@thehalbie]

LoL - it’s _their_ video commenting on the music. Of course they might talk over it as part of that, and there’s no disrespect. It’s the point. Fine if you don’t like it - but go listen to the song somewhere else if hosts saying what they want on their own video triggers you so much.

[@santibanks]

Rick Beato says a lot…

[@Thethinker6141]

Don't like that music

[@Oxfordcolour]

Then why are you here?

[@Erschophone]

Well, we don't like you either…

[@PapaEli-pz8ff]

​@@Oxfordcolour Some folks need a little attention.. I guess

[@dave_manley]

Give it some time, you will.

[@CellZealot]

@@PapaEli-pz8ff I think Monk played his music the way he did precisely to perturb and confound expectations. I believe what the thinker is expressing is his intention to stimulate and challenge the listener's imagination, which many find uncomfortable or unpleasant.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

I hate to poop on the party, but it needed lots more cowbell.

[@licas63]

Monk is with Mingus my favourite jazz jazz musicians.