Thelonious Monk Quartet - 'Round Midnight

Thelonious Monk Quartet - Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk(p) Charlie Rouse(ts) Larry Gales(b) Ben Riley(ds)
Recorded in Norway 1966 dvd "LIVE in '66"
My favourite version of this tune. Look out for those elbow moves!

[@johnsadberry4864]

Paris 1964. I'm a 2nd Lt hanging out with my E4 friend from Detroit. It's about 4 am and we are hungry for soul food and hopefully some late live music. So we go to Buttercup's, a joint still run by But Powell's widow. We order greens, pig feet and cornbread with vin ordinaire to wash it down. Suddenly we heard this piano that could only be the one and only Monk. He had finished his meal and got busy. He took us non stop until well into daybreak. Precious memory now that I'm in my late 70's.

[@juanrodriguezvictor292]

memories make our life beautiful or full of hate or ugliness beautiful it helps to live our life to the fullest of the good under any circumstance and we can live like lucky so and so's

[@room2506]

I like your story John

[@haroldwalton932]

really great story....music can take you anywhere...long may it be that way for you

[@ElenaCiampaMusic]

Incredible! That might be the best memory/scene I’ve heard about all year!

[@daltonneilan5651]

Wow! Amazing!

[@GAoctavio]

This song has been recorded a million times but this is still the best version

[@biscuit22able]

You got that right.

[@jeffrytrefry2469]

Rouse, so terribly underrated. I believe he sacrificed his own fame so that Monk would be certain to have his genius memorialized. Listen to that incredible distinguishing tone of Rouse. Monk knew what he was doing when chose Charlie!

[@allen6924]

My favorite sax player for Monks music bar none. He's perfect for Monks style of composing and playing. And his solo work as a leader is great too. I can always imagine burlesque dancers prancing around when I listen to Monk and Charlie together. Lmao..

[@christopherlyons5900]

Upvoted for a well-earned compliment, but it's modern jazz. There's not that much fame to go around. Rouse was a brilliant sax player (I saw him play live) but there were so many. Monk was one of the great composers of the 20th century. Also one of the great eccentrics. Rouse knew what he was doing. There was more light in his shadow than there was most other places. I mean, we're here listening, right? And he's playing changes on a melody nobody else in the multiverse could have written. Did Monk die rich? And is it all about money and fame? This is so much more.

[@SolaceEasy]

Thelonius was no angel of a boss.

[@bonnogeerse297]

I always like the way Thelonious literally hammers on the keys haha

[@christianpondeville4823]

he is possessed by the demon of his own music, incomparable

[@NjonjoNdehi]

Charlie Rouse is so underrated.

[@dimitriskouras9951]

Charlie Rouse and Monk were in each others heads...Perfect

[@juxtapositionpotion1006]

This is the song as you stare into space in the wee hours. Nothing but you, your regrets, memories, and a strange feeling of mourning what never came to be...

[@calvinlewis8924]

Monk’s style was so unique, so singular, it will definitely transcend time.

[@Slapshot975]

I always thought Charlie Rouse was underrated as a saxophonist. He fits in neatly with Monk.

[@rosalinddavies8466]

He’s incredible pulling the jazz rhythm and blues together magic

[@johnv4866]

I absolutely love Charlie's playing, too.

[@danield1697]

I am a ill person dealing with a lot of health issues at least I can still listen to music like this that chills me to the bone I love it so much. Thank you Thelonious Monk.

[@ShankaDaWanka]

I hope you are okay now, daniel d.

[@jojoUK120]

I hear you, brother.

[@oleflogger6828]

Daniel, you are not alone, brother. I'm convinced that, were music not available to me as it is here, I'd have died by now. I'm 75 and I just love this stuff. And, yeah, medical issues abound. They may, someday, refer to KZbin as the greatest museum for real music, ever.

[@gweckesser]

Same here most of all is stress. Get better soon, daniel d

[@amiretewa1268]

I hope u r better now brother

[@williamgregory1848]

Monk epitomizes what a jazz musician is supposed to be. He had a style that was instantly identifiable, whether it’s in composition or whether it’s in his playing or whether it’s someone playing in the style of Monk. It’s a very personal approach to jazz. And I don’t think there are too many cats (past or present) who could do what Monk did. RIP to that legend 🙏🏾

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

I was binge-reading quotes by Thelonious Monk, and his quotes about being original really stuck in my head. "Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differentlty. That's it. Just using notes differently."

[@johnnytank944]

Very fitting that this performance by Monk is in front of several paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (his surname is most commonly pronounced almost exactly like Monk). This is filmed in the assembly hall of the University in Oslo. The largest painting directly behind them is 'The Sun'.

[@hamptonholmes2259]

wow thats incredible insight

[@erikpryor74]

I’m 56 yrs old. Meaning I was born in 1965. I am with Monk every day.Only God knows this connection. No one else in my family has ever introduced to this music but my 2 children listen to Monk with me Daily. I’d just like the world to know that I’m a better man for ingesting this in my soul. Thank you Monk. Thank you.

[@maxstenner9543]

Loved your comment

[@mariamartin8516]

Beautiful comment. I feel the same. The world is a better place thanks to music like this.

[@kevinwhite1772]

So I was just sitting here on a Sunday morning. I read a few Psalms and "Round Midnight " came into my mind. I am so glad a Universe that created this guy still has regard for me. Now off to church with my family.

[@ronaldstephenson6106]

My wife has a master's degree in classical piano from the Soviet Union, and she says that Monk was the greatest pianist in America. She also said that his compositions are on the highest level. I played this piece for her, and all she could say was, "beautiful, beautiful." When it finished all she could say was, "Genius."

[@mauriciobromfman4251]

No one plays like this anymore

[@jon4136]

@@mauriciobromfman4251 Joey Alexander

[@joamon559]

My wife has a doctorate in nuclear medicine from Botswana. She quite likes it too.

[@cirjan999]

Impressive achievement! The Soviets had arguably the best music schools in the world before the Fall. Even now the Moscow Conservatory is in top 10 music schools on the entire globe.

[@Blackman19498]

@Robbie Sputnink leave it to a white guy to throw Salt on a musical genius 🎼.

[@stuartk.nelson6001]

Bro. Thelonious Monk is STILL A, GREAT GENIUS!

[@tanapatpeemanee1230]

Truly... and will always be ...so neat ..so cool ....so fine 😊❤❤❤

[@alexandruciocalteu1932]

For the people who try understand jazz -Thelonius is a revelation

[@BDogDaRapStar]

drummer Ben Riley stirring up some soup

[@drewsleyy3836]

BDogDaRapStar *gumbo. Tasty, tasty gumbo

[@Jolnichek]

Brandon Caswell Douglas true true true

[@punkkap]

More like mixing salad

[@liamelion]

more like stirring rissoto

[@dschonsie]

more like knitting a pair of socks ^^

[@christophersimmons6377]

One of the greatest jazz ballads ever composed.

[@jazzbirdbecky]

yes.... agree. One of my favorite to sing... but my accompanists don't care to play it....:/

[@artompkins7958]

Wow! Who else approaches the sound of piano and concept of jazz like Monk? Absolutely no one. A unique genius in the world of music.

[@djjjamin]

i love how all of monk's recordings are so different from each other. I bet he could play one song 50 times and have a completely different feel every time.

[@neuromantoo]

The perfect symbiotic relationship of jazz; Charlie Rouse and Thelonius Monk.

[@mwells219]

I never understand why people say Monk's music is too difficult to appreciate.

[@chefxh]

One of the best renditions of one of my favorite tunes.

[@seanhardiman1519]

1. Thelonious Monk- piano Charlie Rouse- tenor sax Larry Gales- bass Ben Riley0 drums 2. Bop 3. 32 bar 4. Thelonious Monk is a genius

[@alices.b867]

Sean Hardiman thank you!

[@kjones5723]

Thank you very much for the line up information.

[@hughduhaney3256]

Sean Hardhmmiman

[@Bfdasmith]

Sean Hardiman thanks!

[@nicklh186]

Thanks for the personnel 👌🏾

[@g500d]

This is THE version. It moves nicely, not like some that put you to sleep because they are so slow. Beautiful and mysterious it is.

[@jamespjohnson]

Mr Rouse was the perfect horn player for Monk. Shrewd improviser but always complimentary to his boss. Monk was a genius. Thanks for posting!

[@calvinlewis8924]

The genius of this set is its so futuristic. Monk was so far ahead of time with his technique and style and Charlie Rouse saxophone playing one can sense the beginnings of John Coltrane!!!

[@wygakyl]

In the early '70's, he was listed in the NYC Phone Book, and we used to call him up....."No, Monk's not here" a voice would say (that kinda sounded like him).

[@timothylowe9263]

Smooth, rough, soulful, jolting, melodic, discordant, evening's peak, Music crawls out the window into the street Then the sun rises and day ruins the moment

[@jerryday9838]

One of the toughest, pieces ,of all time. "ROUND BOUT MIDNIGHT" classic. I can hear this alnight.May GOD bless.

[@mariashouse5492]

Monk was truly ahead of his time.

[@francesschaefer]

When folks say Thelonius did not have a great technique--WRONG--listen to the runs, chords, timing, and collaboration. I love the TONE CLUSTERS and the bass lines. Then you hear these amazing runs.

[@likethesunshine]

+Frances Schaefer noone says that ..

[@erichloehr5992]

+Flow3rsof3viL Flow3rsof3viL failure troll

[@balloonsballoon]

+Frances Schaefer if anything, they say he isn't a good backing musician. which is true -- arguably. all the flashy stuff he's doing doesn't make for a good accompanist. but it works for this song.

[@richard9480]

+Frances Schaefer The poet, Philip Larkin, described Monk as the "Elephant on the keyboard". I'm a great fan of Larkin's poetry but on this point, he was completely wrong. Monk's virtuosity was so subtle and brilliant.

[@user-td4do3op2d]

+likethesunshine Oscar Peterson said that

[@georgemoore8832]

I am so thankful to my father for turning me on to Theo Monk, Charlie Parker, Coltrane, etc. Sunday evenings, we use to sit in the living room and just listen to smooth jazz.

[@brownkemosabe]

Your father was amazing for doing that! But sorry this isn't smooth jazz. Smooth is that poppy 90s dull chord stuff. This right here... Is pioneering Bop.

[@pfg301]

Monk's opening chords are just pure genius. Next to Duke Ellington Monk is the most prolific composer in American music.

[@luzrodas519]

This visual archive is a real treasure! Thank you for posting this Quartet. Monk was a genius!

[@artmeatj6620]

Music like this just disarms people

[@mario7frankielee]

thats a nice thought but i think people who are armed are not listening to this❤

[@jodyharris9731]

One of the great masters.

[@scottd.1700]

I feel like breaking out of my skin every time I listen to this. It's transcendent.

[@Raytown007]

The essence of jazz 🤌🏻

[@josephtravers777]

Monk combined rhythms and harmonies like no other. Fluid and jagged, smooth and rough; a living paradox.

[@michaelbrown5382]

I didn’t read the description before watching, but when I saw the first “elbow move” I had to back it up about 5x in a row to watch it again. This whole performance is Golden.

[@lesliegregg1228]

playing this at my sweet cat, Jamie's grave,died too young from leukemia..one cool cat

[@jayheinz4624]

That's nice,,, sorry to hear about your cat ...come I know what that's like,, and have you heard Miles Davis version of this? 🐦

[@amprovise]

Yes! KZbin is a blessing, To hear & see Monk and the other great great artists. in B&W or Color

[@gloriaallen8051]

This Classic! One of The Best Ever! 💖🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@dariusphillips4882]

This is just how Thelonius Monk plays. The music he writes isn't meant to be all that smooth

[@sohooded]

WE will always miss your genius, Monk.

[@SolaceEasy]

Singular. Lightning bolt. Unmatched.

[@boulevard251]

beautiful, majestic, a masterpiece!

[@caebz2597]

My ish right here, probably my favorite jazz song of all time

[@wildpeach1801]

Eargasm!

[@botvinnik64]

10/10/2019 it’s Monk’s 102nd birthday. We are lucky creatures to have such access to his wisdom.

[@abeladames1376]

IM GOING TO NEED THIS MONTH TO BE A MONK JAZZFEST DEDICATED TO THE MOST TALENTED PIANIST BIG BROTHER MONK

[@franckavitabile]

The best quartet of Thelonious !!! amazing band

[@Biggus63]

The very best of them all in my book, the absolute essence of a jazz musician. No one's ever been quite like Monk.

[@oleflogger6828]

But, he's not alone. Think of Duke, Count, Prez, Bean, the Brute, Satchelmouth, Ella, and on and on.

[@rosscullen1738]

Agreed. I know about all the others. But somethings draws me to his sound. The harshness of the key strokes but the soft melody

[@IlarioSchanzer]

Masterpiece !!!

[@user-du9lu4xc6t]

Wow ... what a hellava magnificent artist, sound's, and a hellava Amazingly genius musical soul.. Pricele$$!

[@IamSaralinka]

Monk is a true genius at both comping and playing counterpoint to the melody, at the SAME TIME no less

[@gweckesser]

goodbye stress!!! Thank you domtheodore

[@michaelwrobelsr9767]

The best jazz composition I've ever heard! Thelonious Monk is my favorite jazz artist.

[@Ella-pf6hh]

I want to eat, sing, walk- everything! live my life like this song

[@HarryVsingersongwriter]

and this happened when I was 16. So happy it's here for us, indeed, phenomenal, everything, Monk, the music, youtube - didn't even dream of this at 16.

[@tommymandel3326]

Agree! but why is the pitch halfway between Eb and D???

[@tacoyo]

Thelonius playing against the edge of dissonance..there is now pianist like Thelonius!

[@gunder7057]

Monk's night and Munch's day. The large painting in the background: Edvard Munch: "The sun"

[@TomBenner1215]

What!?

[@HughMorristheJoker]

A sophisticate is in our midst..

[@merneptahtibidoh100]

Two crazy geniuses in one room...

[@strongbongus]

i guess you could colour me a shade of Jealousy (1895) for not noticing that earlier.

[@HighestRank]

J R *illuminati

[@dimasm2076]

I love Monk he did so much to my depression

[@Tsunamex]

Absolute legend. The way Amy Winehouse, along with countless other icons, created something of their own out of this standard blows my fucking mind. Long live Monk.

[@raulsouza5866]

Wow, I didn't know that. I will check her version right after I finish listening to this. I love Amy. I recommend you listen to the Joe pass version on "unforgettable".

[@oluwaogundiran]

This is actually so good that it moved me to a sentimental mood where tears might have been formed!Excellent piece by an excellent group of people.

[@thebp9999]

Absolute brilliance.

[@bobbyc52]

I just have a few words to say !!! " Jazz Scientist " , " Study and Research " !!! So inventive !!! One of the greatest Jazz Standards ever written !!!

[@Lady_A.R.Browne]

MONK WAS A GENIUS! ONE CANNOT COMPARE BILLY JOEL'S POP PIANIST STYLE TO THELONIOUS MONK'S COMPLEX PIANO SKILLS IN JAZZ. TWO UNIQUE PIANISTS. TWO VERY FOND MUSICIANS. I LOVE MY MONK. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@GuGus963]

This one of my favorite record. Everything in there sound amazing

[@aisuzuki9602]

I'm in love with this song😭❤️

[@Grant-nm2nv]

Brilliant!

[@williamrubinstein3442]

One of the 20 greatest pieces of American popular music, for sure. Probably the greatest jazz piece.

[@Mojorising1328]

6:00 Ineffable, Ethereal, Encapsulating all that is Divine and Pure in the World. My Word, I can't even begin to express how crucial music like this will be to humanity for what I hope to be eternity.

[@8450427]

Genius! fantastic version!

[@imbees2]

What I'm talkin bout. This is how we do, listening to music we were raised with Performed by all the artists our parents and family told us about, and played for us to listen to. Then in between, all the children captured the music they preferred. This is how we do it!!!

[@allen6924]

My favorite sax player for Monks music bar none. He's perfect for Monks style of composing and playing. And his solo work as a leader is great too. I can always imagine burlesque dancers prancing around when I listen to Monk and Charlie together. Lmao.. That tone is just amazing he gets out of that horn.

[@bryan5884]

Love how Monk turned his head to motion Rouse to come in. The Boss is the Boss.

[@drumtwo4seven]

The term "off the hook"... this performance right here truly was Sorry for the language but this video is fucking awesome... EPIC FUCKING EPIC EPIC E P I C ! ! !

[@originalRAS]

Poetry in sound & motion

[@BD-xn2dp]

Thanks Rick Beato for turning me on to this masterpiece!

[@tsung-pinglin3293]

A masterpiece of jazz music!

[@armandoborzov7530]

Genius, Genius, Genius ! #thelondoncollection

[@oakdaddy]

I still say that I’m glad I ever lived because of Thelonious.

[@brumune]

Monk forever, one of the Gods of music

[@starsareangels]

Charlie Rouse is such a master on that sax

[@renaud-julesdeschenes9903]

Génie ce Thelonious Monk...un génie de la composition JAZZ, Paix à son âme...

[@Jolnichek]

The master of syncopation and harmonic dissonance. The champion of bebop and the slide style. Truly one of the greatest to ever tickle the ivories. My all time favorite.

[@rafiescudero392]

The perfect jazz accomplishment... a joyous musical conversation between the sax and he piano

[@idubtheejado]

The exemplary avant-garde jazzman-Mr. Thelonious Monk. He dances around the keys you would expect to be struck first, adds a complementary edginess to the mellow midnight of the foreground, and plays with a genius sense of timed dissonance and syncopation, the likes of which few if any jazz pianists were trying out like him during the bebop era. It’s like once you reach a certain point of mastery of your instrument or craft, the natural next frontier must be to break the rules and arrive at your own musical authenticity. Monk broke the rules so beautifully and solidified his sound as one of the best to have ever played jazz. This video was from 1966. It is now 2019 and Monk is still ahead of the times.

[@Jolnichek]

JaydinationLocs I couldn’t agree more.

[@kennethbrady]

Great description.

[@markkeen341]

Monk is the Picasso of jazz piano.

[@matteomosolo]

Listening to Round Midnight ia a Monk version is so enlightening... It'so different than usual versions!

[@InvestingForTomorrow24]

Often have played this song since setting it to memory in '93. Pair it with Blue Monk and "I Wish I Knew What It Was Like to be Free"

[@oluwaogundiran]

It took just fifteen seconds for me to hit the like button!Yeah, getting enamoured to such classical jazz tunes comes easily. Perfect synth, sync and harmony. It truly is beautiful music.

[@anthony.pearlman]

Charlie Rouse had some rad eyelids.

[@danteashby5959]

I like to think that those eyelids get to his playing the somber kinda serious anchor point that this song needed. They really came through.

[@terrybly3458]

My Dad was a Jazz freak! He didn’t die until he had an FM where he could play what he wanted to play! He couldn’t read a note for shit, but he could listen to it, and man it was on!

[@williamtorp2817]

When Arthur Rubinstein, the great classical pianist of his age, was asked if there was anything that he could not play he replied, "Monk."

[@elijahbuscho7715]

I've been playing out of the real book for fun, and round midnight became one of my favorites right away when I first listened to this. Since first hearing this I've been looking for other saxophone performances of this tune for inspiration, but I keep coming back to this one. Monk and Rouse sound so damn good together. They say it straight. They play it with edge. It cuts.

[@himikoboots]

Love it. This is what the internet is about.

[@PaulScherdell]

When I was a teen in the 80's and heard Thelonious, I thought he sounded like the Jimi Hendrix of jazz piano. I think that holds up.

[@Sibonsax]

Chemistry! To me Rouse & Monk had something so special & rare. I love Wardell Gray & Dexter's sound, but Rouse had the BEST SOUND that I strive to emulate. I wish I had known of him while he was still living. May God richly bless his family and friends who remain. And Monk always played with RESOLUTION!. His left hand was so good on Straight No Chaser (Live at The It Club) that I always am switching my focus constantly between his playing & Rouse'.