Thelonious Monk - Live In Copenhagen 1961

Thelonious Monk Quartet
Copenhagen, Denmark. 05/17/61
Radio Recording
Charlie Rouse (ts)
Thelonious Monk (p)
John Ore (b)
Frankie Dunlop (d)
Jackie-ing
Crepuscule With Nellie
I Mean You
Rhythm-a-ning
Epistrophy
Body And Soul
Well You Needn't
'Round Midnight
Off Minor
Blue Monk

[@kevinwalsh2513]

2022 and just discovered Monk.... Blown away x

[@user-dx7we2xd3u]

それならば将来は東京メトロポリタンテレビジョンTOKYO MX様などが懐かしくて何はともあれ肩を寄せてほんわかしてきてるんるんしてきて満開のBGMタイムなどをガッチリ流してくれますよ。資源統一ですよ。ムキムキしてきますよね。だから胸がドキドキしてきていて楽しくなれてきますよね。

[@postatility9703]

Congratulations!!!Discovering Thelonious is always a great day!

[@LisLot9]

Better late than never

[@Hidde_Blok]

Hoed u voor zuidwesershoremen.

[@vc2958]

@@Hidde_Blokwhat

[@postatility9703]

There are thousands of great posts on KZbin...... but I always come back to Thelonious!

[@theopaopa1]

me too ... 😃

[@davidmaslow399]

Some of the most original music ever created. Genius at work!

[@maplebones]

The originator of music is someone unknown who put 2 notes together with a space in between. Like the wheel, once the originating is over, it's over. Everyone who follows lays bricks on the foundation.

[@yoavcho]

Monk the king of blues

[@mjaxdes]

Insane to the regular ear @ 40:06... - he just keeps hitting the same wrong perfect few keys over and over and over again! BRILLIANT Stubborn! man that is fckn crazy!

[@TT-gj7ii]

00:00 Jackie-ing 09:30 Crepuscule With Nellie 12:04 I Mean You 20:38 Rhythm-A-Ning 29:36 Epistrophy 30:47 Body And Soul 34:48 Well You Needn't 45:09 'Round Midnight 51:30 Off Minor 58:19 Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are The last song is Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are and not Blue Monk. On the album it is written Blue Monk but it's a mistake.

[@HiltonFernandes]

Thanks a lot !

[@itdepends604]

58:19 is blue monk not ba-lue bolivar ba-lues-are. It says on the album cover. /s

[@TT-gj7ii]

@@itdepends604 Hi, On the album it is written Blue Monk but it's a mistake as I said at the end of my comment. You can compare these two songs : - Blue Monk : kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWWTh2WimN2Abc0 - Balue Bolívar Balues Are : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYXMm6V6frpgo5Y Mistakes on the tracklist happens sometimes. I bought this album long time ago and I noticed it because I know how sound his compositions, the chords etc.

[@itdepends604]

@@TT-gj7ii look up the meaning of /s

[@TT-gj7ii]

@@itdepends604 oh I didn't know it, thanks

[@ghislaindesrosiers8074]

merveilleux langage ce Chalie Rouse!

[@danielamariaguerci6140]

Genio al pianoforte bravissimo!!! ❤️

[@MHJazz]

I Surrender dear (Irene) is the this message from me to you , and also the title of number 4 on one of my most loved CD´s : Thelonious Monks most wonderful CD's "Brilliant corners from 1956. I hope you know it or maybe even own it like me. Its wonderful with Ba-lue Bolivar, Pannanonica and Bemsha Swing upon it, and a very,very fine group with a.o. Sonny Rollins, Max Roach and Oscar Pettiford. I was with my teacher in Physics (and Jazz!) and two others from the Gymnasium in Copenhagen. It war a very very joyful concert with Monk playing the piano AND WALKING AROUND IT !! until he should play again, when he sat down again , and he miraculously played the right accord On THE Precis right time ! That`s what I call a MASTER !! I`m so happy that I found that record in my collection again !! Thanks to you my dear Irene, for your beautiful singing "Pannonica on your latest (?) record made me remembering the little beautiful song on the little beautiful butterfly. I simple love that Monk-composition so much ! with love and smile yours forever, whatever there will happen !! Mogens

[@willieluncheonette5843]

That is one of my 3 favorite Monk albums and I've broken down I Surrender Dear, the solo effort on the album, in various youtube posts. It is AMAZING!!!

[@dunhillan8360]

00:00 Jackie-ing 09:30 Crepuscule With Nellie 12:04 I Mean You 20:38 Rhythm-A-Ning 29:36 Epistrophy 30:47 Body And Soul 34:48 Well You Needn't 45:09 'Round Midnight 51:30 Off Minor 58:19 Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are

[@user-ok9ck4eq9o]

To me there is only 1 sound like Theo Monks. it sets the definition of ''jazz;; aside. I/ts a unique stem.

[@joshuaklein2859]

It’s like he is figuring it all out at a bar night club on stage at Carnegie

[@postatility9703]

Monk once said, "Genius is sounding like yourself..."

[@stevejyd]

Because true individuation is a mark of genius

[@nicot9305]

@@stevejyd And true individuation is not a simple thing.

[@maplebones]

@@nicot9305 Neither is cream cheese.

[@andrewsilverstein6186]

Monk, a genius ...fantastic quartet

[@stacyblue1980]

He is a King. And here we all are. We dance and enjoy his playfulness. His well documented airport dancing. His one-of-a-kind skill. His heart. His being. For each of us.

[@55drrrums]

MONK lives !

[@vincentautier4616]

un grand LIVE DE JAZZ joyeux NOEL avec un si bon moment de JAZZ🥰

[@Jonbagis]

Astonishing!!!!!

[@danamartinmayo9529]

Good sound quality. Especially for 1961

[@32251]

No it is not. It is typical of the recordings of that era. The ampex company was making some of the finest recorders ever made even before this recording was made. Telefunken was making some incredible mics still in use today. And more important...sound engineers knew how to make natural sounding recordings....something lost today. I’m not surprised at all how good this sounds.

[@danamartinmayo9529]

@@32251 OK, Good to know. Great era for Jazz.

[@postatility9703]

To Bill Hatcher: I'm no expert, but is the era of digital sound responsible for the diminishing of good, pure natural sound recording?

[@keithraison1212]

Great music, thank you Mr.Radish/

[@Utopiate1111]

Timeless.

[@jetta5267]

F.Dunlop wailing on the drums!

[@RanBlakePiano]

Thank for this important post

[@cezarywozniak1664]

Some people should live 4ever...

[@jerrygunning1449]

Death makes love possible.

[@MHJazz]

At least I was "Allowed" by a "Boss of some kind" to write to you a little again !

[@pieraldozorzi]

Grande Thelonius e sfortunato..

[@rodtrues1]

Just the Zone! Cuz needed Space,,,,,

[@RonCarterBassist]

🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@vc2958]

sup

[@istvantoth7431]

thank you chef!

[@dazedazterdly4620]

WOW!!!! 🤯

[@cobyhizkiya3756]

Tysm🔝❤

[@pauloperesramos2332]

Dancing

[@postatility9703]

This group with Rouse,Ore and Dunlop was pure perfection. When Butch Warren replaced John Ore on bass,the quality never dropped .

[@rodtrues1]

Just Fun too,, hopefully

[@wynneddie]

loved this music!!

[@MelG11X]

Frankie! Oh Yeah.

[@goedeck1]

He bangin

[@jurgendewaal7251]

The last title is not "Blue Monk" but "Bolivar Blues" !!

[@jiyujizai]

🍀😃💛

[@jiyujizai]

🌼❤️🌱😀

[@user-dg6je3tb7f]

.Sphere Monkalonejus

[@Mrhemphill1579]

V

[@callmemonkh9020]

One thing I noticed a lot in Monk's 60's recordings: either Monk wasn't too impressed with his drummer's solos, or he didn't care for drum solos AT ALL....or...his 60's drummer's, no matter that they WERE ACTUALLY GOOD...they didn't pick up on Monk's subtle hint, and they wanted to say TOO MUCH IN THEIR CLOSING SOLO, and COULD NOT come back into the song CLEANLY. That's a hallmark for a drummer in Jazz Music, right? There are many instances out there where Monk and his drummer's solos DONT COME TOGETHER TO END THE SONG. It's there. Surprising and unnerving, too!

[@doIlookhi]

He seemed to like Frankie Dunlop though. Monk lets him stretch in this recording a few times. Nice reentries too.

[@djevelkjokken204]

I'm with Monk then on not caring for drum solos. On some of his recordings I've listened to on KZbin he allows an awful lot of them. Nothing against drummers, but I can do without the solos. Don't get me started on vibes, tho...

[@callmemonkh9020]

@@djevelkjokken204 the interesting or peculiar thing is...#1, I believe Monk DID respect good drummers, because of course, ArtBlakey was a favorite, and a friend. #2: his drummers -- through the end of his CBS contract in December'68 -- never had a setup beyond a 'Bebop Trap-set:' kick drum and snare / one, possibly two crash cymbals and hi-hat / and probably a floor tom-tom. NEVER any additional tom's (two?) to add extra color that I know of. I know Monk was a very intelligent and stoic individual. They say he had a "phlegmatic personality." He needed to b prodded, or stimulated to push thru, or take up initially, certain things. I wish there was someone, or, there could've been someone to suggest to him seriously to re-shape, re-tool or just add to, the performance of music in his repotoire, to make it fresh. There was TOO MUCH going on in music in the late 60's! Monk SHOULD'VE HAD A LARGER SLICE OF IT ALL, just like Miles got some. Miles re-shaped himself; but he NEVER LOST himself. Monk could've enjoyed this newness also.

[@wstr9963]

Monk once made a list of tips for playing a gig. On the list were tips such as: "Pat your foot and sing the melody in your head when you play", "Stop playing all that bullshit, those weird notes, play the melody!", and also "Make the drummer sound good".

[@jthepear]

@@callmemonkh9020 Have you read "The Life and Times of Thelonious Monk"? Excellent book. It explains a lot about why what you're suggesting didn't necessarily happen. But at the end of the day, the world was and is so enriched by Monk that it seems a trifle selfish to ask more from this singular genius of 20th century music.

[@rabibengali5811]

I have more views on vigo video than this guy. this world is not real, is it?