Thelonious Monk live in' 66 : Lulu's Back In Town

Filmed in 1966 on a tour in north of Europe.
Thelonious Monk (piano) Charlie Rouse (tenor sax) Larry Gales (bass) and Ben Ryley (drums)
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[@JasonFerguson1283]

Monk is the epitomy of displacement! The man transcends time and space!

[@beingsentient]

I believe much of it was his "persona." He was good at it.

[@CapnSchep]

Underrated comment ...!!

[@josephtravers777]

A LOT of VG musicians couldn't play with him, found his music too complicated. Monk threw knuckleballs. Hit this thing! lol

[@charlesbarry2485]

One of the greatest jazz quartets in history.

[@Jletalon]

This Concert is the most important concert I ever attended: Amazing, transformative, chocking … I knew and loved only Dixieland before (and still do love Louis) but Monk really plays so true, no bs … Merci Thelonious ❤️

[@danielgraham3143]

Thelonious Monk is the definition of jazz.

[@Keitarts]

But not the only one.

[@charlesbrazell2136]

Been playing the upright for years-and I still marvel at the ease at which Larry Gales has mastered his instrument, to be as young as he is also; it just seems so different from what a lot of other cats were doing at that time! 1-3-24.

[@Mooseman327]

This swings like crazy...all the way through. Ben Riley is superb on this, playing a limited drum set. And Monk keeps you in suspense...as always.

[@weedanwine]

like monk said, when ya swinging; swing some more!

[@josephtravers777]

Very hard to swing in Monk tempo but he demanded it, yeah

[@bestfeeding]

That bass solo knocks me out!

[@kmal16]

Such a lyrical solo. Simple yet complex and very elegant

[@ggamos9831]

Me too! Amazing.

[@geraldmoresi3120]

Yep!

[@alexcazzulli1082]

He does not even take a look at the neck XD

[@jonwilliams9976]

Snare, bass, hi hat, and cymbal. Perfect.

[@metaviewx2091]

If I remember correctly, he didn't get all of his equipment delivered and that is the reason for the pared down drum set.

[@TheThieddo]

Un des plus beaux concerts de ce génie, à la tête d'un quartet aussi subtil que MONK, un ovni immortel, pur virtuose de l'intervalle musicale, j'ai vu cette vidéo plus de 20 fois et c'est toujours avec autant d'émotion

[@milkymanway]

my favorite jazz musician of all time

[@drchoclate]

Mine too

[@Creative2007100]

Larry is in dreamland when he takes his solo from min 7..🔥🎼😍

[@CCozart]

Monk pieces are never boring, no matter what he played he brings life to it in abstraction

[@raulrichards412]

All Are Great Musicians.♫♪♫♫ Buy Wow, Larry Gales on Double Bass is SuperB, and so Cool.♫♪♫ Fantastic Solo. ♥ I Love It.!!! Thanks.

[@brodieben1]

This is such a sweet melody.Sounds so simple,but when you peel it back,like an onion,there are lots of layers. MY MAN MONK. Thank you for this video. I have the lewie armstrong,miles davis,duke ellington,count basie ,dexter gordon AND A FEW OTHERS IN THE JAZZ ICONS SERIES. Loaned MONK and,WEATHER REPORT live at montreaux to a friend.Of course,i havent seen them since.

[@jibsmokestack1]

It’s a Fats Waller tune btw!

[@tomasjackson6748]

My teacher is having me transcribe Monk's solo. even though it isn't technically a complicated solo, the tight intervals make it rather difficult to decipher. I'm going to learn so much, though.

[@palealien]

Yeah, like that bit a 4:47.. and well, OK, most of it. Love to see how you did.

[@st0nedglory]

Tomas Jackson would love to see that transcription

[@jeffschornack3519]

Impossible not to feel UP lifted when listening to Monk

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Something in this makes my heart ache.

[@josephtravers777]

It's the Blues

[@eshaibraheem4218]

@@josephtravers777 Yes. Thanks for bringing me back to this on New Year's Day.

[@josephtravers777]

@@eshaibraheem4218 Monk always makes me smile. Happy New Year!

[@eshaibraheem4218]

@@josephtravers777 You too!💃👐

[@barbarabrown3381]

Lulu was a prostitute who became a beloved madame in New Orleans.

[@mauriceee1434]

I thought I knew of his music. Guess not this is outstanding.

[@johnben2579]

When Monk first did this I practised the chorus for 3 months then played it in the local pub. Everybody started shouting,"Go away! Practice for 3 Years!" Then some friendly soul called out that it was a Jonathan & Darlene Edwards thing, so then I got a round of applause and was bought a few pints. Well, it's all a matter of taste so if you like shit 'chacun a son gout'.

[@mikehicks724]

Never gets old

[@brodieben1]

Perfect. How is monkman playing with that 10 pound rock on his finger. I have always loved lulus back in town AND,this is one of the if not the best LIVE versions i have ever heard.

[@benwoyt]

A work of sublime genius.

[@jazzlars7122]

Monk was the biggest harmonic genius every time.

[@stephenclickard8194]

Monk was a dear man who could play like nobody else.

[@rillloudmother]

7:55 Larry Gales cool as hell!

[@rgalesnyc]

The best to ever do it!! RIP unc!

[@liminalsoup3005]

Such a simple melody, but one of my fave Monk standards

[@chytiroglouanastasia8665]

Monk is definitely one of my favorites, true genius!

[@astrolopes]

surely in the best bass ever category amongst other things....braaahhhhhhhoowmn

[@paulhoffbaltzersen3304]

The concert is from the University Aula in Oslo. Large paintings by Edvard Munch on the walls there.

[@CadillacL]

Paul Hoff Baltzersen I was wondering about that

[@ggamos9831]

Thank you for the info. We were just wondering what and where this was.

[@samferguson9171]

holy moly larry gales is too swingin

[@Krisselbee]

Holy cameoly

[@MrRayBailey]

Larry Gales one of the best to do it Rest in Peace.

[@Fdk-lk7yu]

re discovering monk his wrongness is just so right...!!! loving every minute of this

[@JasonFerguson1283]

So clear and firmly direct with Rouse and firmly addled at the same time with Maestro Monk.The recording is great too!

[@haloskater24]

I would have loved to see a post experience Hendrix make an album together with monk, one can only imagine....

[@rillloudmother]

while this is an interesting idea, hendrix would definitely need to hit the shed for a few years to play monk's bag...

[@danjv]

Interestingly enough Hendrix was a big fan of Rahsaan Roland Kirk. If you listen to the way Jimi voiced the blues you'll see why jazz composers and arrangers really dug his playing.

[@presleyvelvet618]

He was well on his way to going that route and had the ear to pull it off 👍

[@gyozanomics]

@@danjv he was not tight enough to play with Monk sorry

[@gyozanomics]

@@presleyvelvet618 this aint by ear this is a lifetime of theory

[@PlayBetterJazz]

Larry is just killin' it!

[@prod.j4ck313]

nine years late, but the seeing him tune his string at 7:07 in the middle of his solo seems to accurately summarazie his expertise. Monster.

[@RuralmoneyOfficial]

1 musical genius, 3 natural talents equal all original sound.

[@carytaylorlang739]

whoa! i learned mr. monk's piano in highschool for a jazz test, and used the recording from It's Monk's Time for the notes. never thought i'd get to see them perform it live! how cool! thank you for the u/l

[@ctdrums1]

rest in peace ben riley!!

[@guilmini]

lulu lulu lulu is back is back in tone

[@murattaner7384]

Not the most underrated of course, , but the least unknown master bassist and drummer in jazz history :)))

[@mariomachado5586]

superlativo! unico e inimitabile! grande Thelonius!

[@RajnaVilmos]

I was that time -2 years old. 😍

[@MrWriteright]

Monk and Rouse. That is money!

[@cotehall9434]

Gale's sounds and feel are like a mixture of Sam Jones & Wilbur Ware. very inspiring!

[@cotehall9434]

Btw, that double bass looks very the same as the one Charles Mingus used at the exact same place there Aula University in 1964, maybe that bass is the uni's own property?

[@musicofanatic]

@@cotehall9434 The bass has the look of a cheap, plywood bass...not that there's anything wrong with that...

[@MrDaraghkinch]

What's up? It's all coming out the right channel.

[@fffab74]

Grazie Fà

[@aidensullivan6891]

This reminds me of Nostalgia in Times Square lol

[@christopherwright7855]

Thank you Gentlemen. + R.I.P.

[@heathernewcomb8758]

Love so much!

[@dejoneirojones5443]

As always great listening to the most innovative person of jazz piano!

[@anthony.pearlman]

Too good

[@gtegler1]

Charlie Rouse's solo is so inside.

[@agustine.alvarez9832]

Monk and the bassist are the best.

[@Keitarts]

The bass solo is perfection

[@charlesbrazell2136]

Amen! 1-3-24.

[@marosmihalik2673]

Extraordinary!

[@mariomachado5586]

come muove il piede thelonius è unico!!!!

[@pfranks44]

ooh. yeah

[@renaud-julesdeschenes9903]

THELONOIUS GÉNIE du JAZZ moderne... Renaud

[@charlesbarry2485]

One of two sax players who understood Monk's music. The other one is Sonny Rollins. John Coltrane struggled initially with this music.

[@randyjohnson8366]

Amazing....monk was feeling it

[@wilhelminakloosterhuis2217]

you stole my soul.......

[@timbuktu.1]

Can someone transcribe Monk’s blinking at 3:50

[@ebaylistentomusic]

Nobody understood tempos better than Monk.

[@josephtravers777]

Nobody could play around the beat like Monk. Most of his tunes were the same tempo.

[@davehetfield8724]

3:13 damn, shop closes by the hour, oh whatever, I'll get it ...means 40 mins to gig and 10 to ride, damn

[@georgefelixlale1717]

SWEET

[@jlinky2746]

first you gotta practice getting and keeping those fingers formed in the horrifyingly proper wrong position and proceed from there to correctly hit wrong notes, parts of the right notes or notes that suggest the right notes but aren't exactly it. With practice you could begin to feel the man and his unpolished brilliance.

[@tomglase5333]

You're right. But I don't hear wrong notes.

[@hank1519]

@@tomglase5333 They are merely unexpected.

[@postatility9703]

Mingus once said,"Monk plays wrong right.."

[@wellbbq]

THELONIOUS

[@GunsNRosses1]

If Larry's bass was a tad louder this would be just perfect!

[@jazzrhythmning]

Yo this video is only in the right ear.

[@helvarthered]

If you look up the whole concert it’s in both ears

[@rosadovelascojosuedavid1894]

@@helvarthered yeaah

[@kempo9jo]

素晴らしい！

[@barbarabrown3381]

Anyone know why Monk and Dolphy did not play togrther? Love them both.

[@Fabinosto]

The link is in the description. : )

[@shkyrbty]

No toms, for drum sound Ben Ryley only has kick and snare, mind blowing!!!!!!

[@Fabinosto]

Yes. The sound was in the right and left ears before. I don't know what happens...

[@carolinawren3594]

would it be too much to ask that someone who even begins to understands Monk's music, and even presumes to understand a tiny bit of the man, could offer an evaluation of may be an epochal performance?

[@alcofribasnasier5089]

Sure he never played any wrong note, they all sound great and all belong to the chords

[@tykwa7]

Warsaw concert :D

[@bwanna23]

All great artists get up from their work or step aside from their work in order to gain perspective.

[@andrewhunter5037]

Monk is like Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Frederik Chopin at cocktail hour.

[@jiyujizai]

🥀😀🌱💛

[@Kiwi2375]

ummm that indeed is Charlie Rouse

[@Fabinosto]

Hi, I put a new YT vid of the same live, withthe sound in the two ears. ; ) Enjoy new !

[@JOSHua-jq1vd]

some 2020 ?

[@musical_lolu4811]

Yes

[@pipeandslippersman]

3:13 - that 'slowly turning around looking at my watch' dance... why didn't michael jackson rip that off, eh?

[@bivisloko2303]

only right audition but wonderful

[@Fabinosto]

Go here : Thelonious Monk live in' 66 : Lulu's Back In Town

[@trentbridenpiano]

I can’t help but hear the family guy theme song

[@nieverainmaker384]

There’s sounds in inaudible frequency to some

[@dejoneirojones5443]

Does anyone know who painted the picture in the background?

[@benneche81]

Edvard Munch. The concert took place in Universitetsaulaen, in Oslo, Norway.

[@XXXGRAPENUTSXXX]

6:27

[@martinslocombe2288]

Thelonious had unique timing dont try to copy the best have failed

[@3hARIS]

what a bassist.. who is he?

[@Creative2007100]

One and only Larry Gales

[@ugurture4217]

,:)

[@Ogaitnas900]

lucky theres a family guuuuuy

[@lubabalomahlombe451]

I know I'm not the only one who hears the Family Guy theme song.

[@gweckesser]

Oniric, almost lisergic. I´m in trance...

[@Fabinosto]

I know that ; so sorry

[@Deckardpr]

The thumbnail is wrong.

[@streetgeezer]

I believe this is in Stockholm??

[@Creative2007100]

Norway

[@Retr0_760]

Tracing the "Family guy" theme origins brought me here

[@Mick19541]

I try......can't get IT.

[@musical_lolu4811]

You're not quirky enough.

[@user-kz9dl7pm2p]

余りにもモンクの足があれ程動くとは。知らなかった。