Thelonious Monk Don't Blame Me (Live in Denmark)

[@MarcEverettProductions]

I love how Thelonious would play and not be afraid to touch an undesirable note that might clash with others. His philosophy comes through in the visual, one that I apply in my daily life. In real jazz, it doesn't matter that you played the wrong note, as long as you're on your way to play the right one. Life is full of wrong notes. Are you in key? Are you tuned? Are you prepared to play the right note after the wrong one?

[@AlbertoArgentiero]

Thank you sir. Inspiring words!

[@talkgtr]

It's Monks way of bending a note, it's intentional. No such thing as a wrong note w/ Monk.

[@MarcEverettProductions]

I see what you're saying, although those are much more pronounced than ghost or pass through notes. But what seems to be an unintentional "wrong" note to some, def is intentional and a note with purpose when it comes to Monk. Him, Oscar Peterson, and George Duke are three of my favorite pianists, excluding my father, RIP.n@@talkgtr

[@ArthurHolloway-hr5zt]

What a lot of folks don't understand is that jazz is spontaneity.

[@ericmintz6689]

@@ArthurHolloway-hr5zt "There ain't no wrong notes on no piano." (attributed to Thelonious Monk)

[@davidjoseph3403]

The heft of that weighted last finger is genius. Dude is swing a mallet at the carnival. Waaayyyy past stylish. Love it. Thanks. Keep coming back to this. Dude is stomping our a brush fire before he gets caught fer lightin' it. Childish, criminal! Mesmerizing.

[@DavidMiller-bp7et]

Like the talk.

[@DavidMiller-bp7et]

That huge weight on the pinky really adds sock to the little sledge hammer.

[@chrisSkordPiano]

I just keep coming back to this song Can't describe how much thelonious has helped me through life. And as a pianist and as a human being.

[@Patrick_B687-3]

Nice thoughts man. Lifelong music lover but learning about jazz late in mine. Beautiful stuff.

[@lesonyrra]

Same here. :^) That is, I think I know what you mean, and hope it isn't presumptuous of me to say so.

[@barbarabrown3381]

This is my favorite.

[@barbarabrown3381]

I love the tune and its title . Love you all.

[@marlanaughton]

my dad sending this to me today - thank you

[@matteoubaldobertoli3824]

unforgetable man

[@courtneygillespie1187]

This is incredible.......

[@Nic-ok8qx]

This is amazing. Hard to believe that every single note, no matter how ‘wrong’ it sounded, was intentional. There will never be another Monk.

[@muzzamilla]

👸🏾🙏🏽💖 I absolutely LUV that...*no matter how 'wrong' it sounded*.... ¡¡¡THAT'S JAZZ!!! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤗🤗🤗

[@mesolithicman164]

Actually, that's a badly out of tune piano.

[@rillloudmother]

it only sounds wrong cuz your ears are too small

[@saxsymboldjensaxsaxofoon4518]

It never sounds wrong to me. Just as a new, never-before-heard emotion. The whole thing doesn't hit the ground at any time. As soon as it threatens to become recognizable, he throws you off the track again.

[@paulmoore7964]

its the timing rather than the notes that really stands out

[@imbees2]

WOW! Thelonious Monk! Incomparable piano playing.

[@andrewgillespie8537]

“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.” -Thelonious Monk

[@morbidmanmusic]

".... just the player"

[@bjornjanlert1013]

@@morbidmanmusic haha - in swedish - you are right !

[@NEVAB4]

I can't stop listening. Fascinating.

[@josecamilo1640]

Lots of precise things. What a genius Monk!! Poem and rhythm!

[@qasimat]

Yes!

[@jayswizzle57]

This might be the most beautiful solo piano performance video in the world.

[@qasimat]

Indeed!

[@thomasjamison2050]

Ok, Might be. It is wonderful.

[@griekenland30]

All is alive, all is breathing, all is kicking. Music without compromise to anything.

[@taeyang2531]

영혼이 느껴지는 연주, 잘 들었습니다. 고맙습니다.

[@lordmountbatten154]

He was to play music for the world to see himself delighting his own ears, he was in such a point that that’s the only thing he cared about.

[@patrickvanrinsvelt4466]

It's really hard to pick favorites when you had folks life Peterson, Taylor, Evans, etc. These were truly all geniuses.

[@diegom6085]

One man band, holy shit. I'd literally forget that he was the only one playing.

[@jbOneEarth]

Your comment reminds me of the time I found myself wondering who played piano in his band. No $***. For real!!!

[@mr.porgens7349]

It's called the piano strive!

[@chrisSkordPiano]

We need this to go to 100 million views!!!! Best piano solo performance I have ever heard..

[@officialtheloniousmonk]

I dig it!

[@quill444]

This performance does indeed have millions of views on some previous uploads: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaTLo6eCjaeXopo - j q t -

[@ericwyness9089]

What, only a 100 million ? But it is indeed a terrific performance, worth hearing again and again.

[@joelfortenberry7865]

Great but have you heard James Booker - there was a medley from Europe that was just as good or better in my book.

[@ellenmaccarrone4936]

Love ya, Mr. Monk!

[@GianluigiBarbieri-jq9dn]

Rimarrei giorni a sentirlo suonare in quel modo che solo a lui riesce

[@RogerMFox]

🎼✨Happy Birthday Monk✨ Much Love, all the best to T.S. & The Family, Fox🌬️💨🔥🎵🔥🎶🕶️

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

Exceptional. Just beautiful.

[@josecamilo1640]

Monk striding slow and lovely!!

[@ODQ327]

Thank you for sharing this gem!

[@josedominguesgontijo2793]

Great pianist called Monk! He was like an angel with your marvelous chords and the beauty of his melody.

[@giuseppelatte1039]

This melody is not beauty, maybe complex, intellectual, important, but not beauty

[@bjornjanlert1013]

@@giuseppelatte1039 okej .. men I like it .. perhaps eglli a little beat - sorry my langvish = is Swedish .. haha we like jazz very much !

[@ricasch6514]

Merci Philippe Mon ami ! J'aime beaucoup Thelonious Monk, sa personnalité, sa façon de jouer ! En plus il prend tellement de plaisir à jouer, à improviser, j'aime le regarder autant que de l'écouter...

[@josecortesrolembergfilho6783]

MERCI POUR CETTE BELLE ET HISTORIQUE VIDEO. MERVEILLE !!!😀🥰🥰🥰

[@sergiocollado2438]

Definitivamente la belleza de la música de Monk radica en su lucidez para retratar la variedad de los estados emotivos de la vida y las disonancias que algunas veces se producen al interactuar con otros.

[@onizukaissho1254]

Thank you monk

[@KINSkully]

Ben Riley dancing like Monk at 2:21 is hilarious to me.

[@ferrancaila2666]

Impressive and perfect!

[@adoodleintime]

A friend introduced me to Thelonious Monk, in the early 90's. He died not long after, from cancer at the age of 21. I wasn't a big fan at the time but I sure feel it now.

[@attiylanen]

Yeah, Monk was 64 when he died.

[@galahadthreepwood9394]

I’m a classical kinda guy, but I really love Monk!

[@djangowoof]

Great sweet man with such humor!

[@andrewsilverstein6186]

Monk was always pure genius

[@louisef.9137]

Pure genius...no doubt. This version is like a beautiful cloud. Monk was light years ahead of everyone else...still is. Unreal...excellent. Pure genius.

[@rasimgatin1588]

A kind of rockin" tunes and incredible jazz style !

[@PatrickBottin-p9t]

Combien de souvenirs Combien d'harmonie dans ces chemins détournés Unique

[@claussaunte2303]

This is pure gold

[@marcusstoica]

People have always said that Monk had a heavy, uncompromising sound. Yet from what I have gathered over the years, Monk plays with a touch extremely sensitive to the dynamics of the instrument & song, and a monstrous technique to back it up.

[@antonioreficco5848]

Traducir

[@elviragonzalez4588]

Monk is so far ahead of his time that I believe his true genius will be appreciated in about 100 years along with Bird and dizzy for what they did for American music

[@tonyjones7373]

In short : A frigging genius.........

[@namor637]

So you’re saying that he’s sensitive but plays like a monster?😆

[@jbOneEarth]

@@elviragonzalez4588 He already is. The one. The only.

[@bernardguyon3218]

Une création à l'état pur : Accords , groove... Un chef-d'œuvre absolu parce qu'un jeu inimitable. Fascinant !

[@smurfunkown6774]

So perfect, with style and grace.

[@michaelchapman4955]

& in an extremely Warm/HotJazz Dive to boot... 'Hampton Hawes indeed had a touch of Monk in his playing, who I caught during My Early LA Jazz clubbing days

[@qasimat]

@@michaelchapman4955yes on Hampton Hawes!

[@luizwcheckbrasil4213]

God, thats awesome. Fist time listening. Amazing.

[@maik723]

Man,,,,,,,,,,,those chords are so addictive.

[@jonobester5817]

Mr. Monk, you are just about my favorite.

[@billythekid2050]

Super tune..Thanks.

[@cristiancisneros523]

Puro disfrute Monk que estupendo fuiste sos y serás cuando una canción llega al alma tiene que ser una tuya los demás no tienen oportunidad ante tremendo músico.

[@jeffstone2136]

Now THAT is a final boss-level pinkie ring.

[@sharonkouadio852]

Every time speechless….❤❤❤

[@johnleedavis5948]

This is internal refreshment that Monk is sharing...

[@eleanorsopwith9806]

Maestro!

[@alexmorgan3435]

Sublime.

[@yorgoVV]

brilliant

[@GianluigiBarbieri-jq9dn]

Questo signore al sax lo fa parlare e gli fa dire tutto quello che vuole lui un genio!

[@oneycumba2037]

maestro que quedara para la eternidad como el mejor compositor americano de todos los tiempos !!!!!

[@Thetonetemple.]

The king of chunky ! Big colored chords and rock solid stride .

[@agustine.alvarez9832]

Marvelous, Monk was a piano percusionist .

[@1celibidache224]

yes, similar to prokofiev in the classical world who viewed piano as a percussion rather then a string instrument as chopin did

[@andrewfiles4184]

Well the Piano is a percussive instrument didnt you know?

[@GeoCoppens]

Rubbish!

[@sharonmckenzie5544]

Simply artistic in its presentation 👌

[@TurnFullCircle]

This is so awesome....thank you...

[@jesperjohansen1783]

The Monk as always with a beautiful message ❤ 🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@MikeTarrani]

I can hear James P. Johnson in Monk's playing. He has one foot firmly planted in the past and the other far into the future.

[@qasimat]

Exactly.

[@franckavitabile]

I love it !!!

[@imbees2]

WOW

[@oscargarciamiguel6745]

Un genio del jazz sin lugar a dudas. Un desde España

[@arnovriends5873]

Now this is multitasking!

[@RogerMFox]

🎼...Thanks, beautiful to see, much love to T.S. & the Family always, Fox🌬💨✨🎶✨🎵🔥🕶

[@elviragonzalez4588]

I don't think that anyone could have been better at this song

[@Staylogical]

I came here because of Joni Mitchell's Monk Album.That's one of the great things about music.It takes you to good places.

[@長見穏聴]

良くぞ集められましたね。Good Job! for your choice!

[@tupi-guaranitupi-guarani9332]

Precioso! Fantástico Mono!

[@scottf2406]

In Monk's biography, they say about the seemingly offbeat playing of his notes that the silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

[@barbarabrown3381]

Monk said something like this. "Silence is the loudest sound.

[@stephenilieff7531]

great

[@Thanks-Tokyo]

Nice groove

[@carlomezz]

Fantastic!!

[@sergiocollado2438]

... Solo Monk una obra maestra!!

[@kyliecoyne8399]

This performance is the acme of piano.

[@valeriasaralobue688]

Che tocco❤

[@jeandanieljolivald6256]

suprême d'humour et d'invention , légère, légère....cette main gauche imperturbable !in E flat, like "Round Midnight"

[@dihangdesire6847]

Il s'est introduit dans ma tête....

[@amyvickers4415]

:) he was from my hometown....

[@truBador2]

Melodius Funk...

[@claussaunte2303]

I heard some stories, that Monk liked Copenhagen very Much in Them days, and lets face it there was two jazz Capital in Europe at that time, Paris and Copenhagen!

[@Maki.1028]

ほんと独創的な旋律✨

[@joao-geraldodamasceno1581]

Formidable

[@jamesmiller4184]

The Thelonius ONE !!

[@ubertocellerino9000]

Genio

[@iejcwejheiowcnlwekn]

Loves that wholey scalie

[@morenocaleffi103]

Un solo commento GRANDE

[@weepeee]

Sphere is MUSIC GOD❤🎹🎶🙏🥰😍🔥😇🌻😎☮️

[@ergbudster3333]

One of my twin pillars, the other being Charles Mingus.

[@danal81]

Nobody asked.

[@olebirgerpedersen]

Yes !

[@Obrien84]

Facts

[@mesolithicman164]

I don't know why, he keeps playing wrong notes.

[@hastensmith3965]

It's not funny to make a 9/11 joke this soon

[@vvoicieck]

Half of the views are mine

[@barbarabrown3381]

Me also

[@nilsetienne5958]

And the other half mine. I bought my first Monk’s record when I was sixteen, that is sixty years ago, and never stopped enjoying his music.

[@barbarabrown3381]

Every day.

[@jamesjackson8058]

Great eyesight my brother 😳

[@cheri238]

​@jamesjackson8058 He is one of the greats, so many!!❤

[@MichelMottet-bi9lw]

C est extra energetique

[@rudycoleman6565]

1st Monday of 2022❤️ Texas ❤️🇺🇸

[@rillloudmother]

2:21 is that larry gales doing the monk?

[@corvavw6447]

Absoluut geniaal

[@abiliooliveiragoisgois1762]

Simplesmente monstro!!

[@JorgeMarioRodriguez-dp6rt]

Vive lo que toca a donde el quiere llegar y uno la par acompañando

[@oluwaogundiran]

Delectable.

[@ariftw]

how come this only has 223 like? (at this moment)

[@franckschiltz17]

la qualité prime toujours sur la quantité .

[@tonyjones7373]

cos the world is full of morons , look around

[@linemanlovesyou859]

5.5k now,

[@hoo_maan8735]

the distance between average to Ascended master is more vast than an worlds ocean

[@imbees2]

He hits a key, plays a note, then it blends into a song.

[@paulbunescu39]

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