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

4 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

I like your story John

@haroldwalton932

3 жыл бұрын

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

@ElenaCiampaMusic

3 жыл бұрын

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

@daltonneilan5651

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Amazing!

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

11 ай бұрын

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

10 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

Thelonius was no angel of a boss.

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

6 жыл бұрын

I hope you are okay now, daniel d.

@jojoUK120

5 жыл бұрын

I hear you, brother.

@oleflogger6828

5 жыл бұрын

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 KZread as the greatest museum for real music, ever.

@gweckesser

5 жыл бұрын

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

@amiretewa1268

5 жыл бұрын

I hope u r better now brother

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

4 ай бұрын

wow thats incredible insight

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

@biscuit22able

4 ай бұрын

You got that right.

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

@christianpondeville4823

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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."

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

@rosalinddavies8466

Жыл бұрын

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

@johnv4866

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love Charlie's playing, too.

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...

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

Жыл бұрын

Loved your comment

@mariamartin8516

Жыл бұрын

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

@kevinwhite1772

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

No one plays like this anymore

@jon4136

3 жыл бұрын

@@mauriciobromfman4251 Joey Alexander

@joamon559

3 жыл бұрын

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

@cirjan999

3 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

Charlie Rouse is so underrated.

drummer Ben Riley stirring up some soup

@drewsleyy3836

8 жыл бұрын

BDogDaRapStar *gumbo. Tasty, tasty gumbo

@Jolnichek

7 жыл бұрын

Brandon Caswell Douglas true true true

@punkkap

7 жыл бұрын

More like mixing salad

@liamelion

7 жыл бұрын

more like stirring rissoto

@dschonsie

7 жыл бұрын

more like knitting a pair of socks ^^

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.

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

8 жыл бұрын

+Frances Schaefer noone says that ..

@erichloehr5992

8 жыл бұрын

+Flow3rsof3viL Flow3rsof3viL failure troll

@balloonsballoon

8 жыл бұрын

+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

8 жыл бұрын

+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

8 жыл бұрын

+likethesunshine Oscar Peterson said that

One of the greatest jazz ballads ever composed.

@jazzbirdbecky

6 жыл бұрын

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

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

6 жыл бұрын

Sean Hardiman thank you!

@kjones5723

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the line up information.

@hughduhaney3256

6 жыл бұрын

Sean Hardhmmiman

@Bfdasmith

5 жыл бұрын

Sean Hardiman thanks!

@nicklh186

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the personnel 👌🏾

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.

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

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).

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.

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!!!

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

Bro. Thelonious Monk is STILL A, GREAT GENIUS!

@tanapatpeemanee1230

2 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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

@TomBenner1215

5 жыл бұрын

What!?

@HughMorristheJoker

4 жыл бұрын

A sophisticate is in our midst..

@merneptahtibidoh100

4 жыл бұрын

Two crazy geniuses in one room...

@strongbongus

4 жыл бұрын

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

@HighestRank

4 жыл бұрын

J R *illuminati

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

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

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

@abeladames1376

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@rosscullen1738

5 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

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

@jayheinz4624

Жыл бұрын

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? 🐦

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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".

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

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

One of the great masters.

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. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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.

WE will always miss your genius, Monk.

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

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

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

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

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

Music like this just disarms people

@mario7frankielee

2 ай бұрын

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

The best quartet of Thelonious !!! amazing band

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

4 жыл бұрын

JaydinationLocs I couldn’t agree more.

@kennethbrady

Жыл бұрын

Great description.

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

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

goodbye stress!!! Thank you domtheodore

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 ! ! !

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.

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

I'm in love with this song😭❤️

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

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.

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

Thanks Rick Beato for turning me on to this masterpiece!

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.

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.

I love Monk he did so much to my depression

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'.

Masterpiece !!!

beautiful, majestic, a masterpiece!

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

Charlie Rouse had some rad eyelids.

@danteashby5959

8 жыл бұрын

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.

Love it. This is what the internet is about.

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

The essence of jazz 🤌🏻

Absolute brilliance.

Charlie Rouse is such a master on that sax

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

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!

Destiny even guided his ready elbow to faultlessness . . 2:16

Eargasm!

A masterpiece of jazz music!

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.

El piano abre para el saxo, que camina por una calle nocturna de alguna gran ciudad, en la soledad de un alma que siente el mundo. Hace una pausa y vuelve sobre sus pasos, , insiste en palpar esa ciudad, y lo que viene de dentro del alma, de la vida, la historia de alguien que pisó este planeta y creó solo para bien, extrayendo el duro jugo del trabajo para volverlo arte puro, sentimiento, pensamiento puro trocado en música...el piano secunda al saxo, y juega con él...y luego se extasía en sí mismo, baila sobre sí, como ondas de agua, de transparencia del aire, de juquetones altibajos del espíritu

@joanbillingham4365

5 жыл бұрын

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@miguelgutierrez5692

5 жыл бұрын

El saxofón vierte al díscolo piano en una copa que comienza a beber a la vez que memora atribuladamente algún aciago suceso reciente o antiquísimo que sin duda perforó hasta el más profundo de los órganos cual larga hoja afilada y puntiaguda lo haría ex profeso para desgreñar la vida misma hasta arrancarla absolutamente.

@lolesrodriguez8521

Жыл бұрын

Wowwwwww😮❤

Poetry in sound & motion

Genius! fantastic version!

Great song. Thank God for the KZread time capsule!

The song is instant gratification and relaxation. Love it

Monk is the Picasso of jazz piano.

Singular. Lightning bolt. Unmatched.

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

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.

Damn, this is too much for words. The setting and then the talent; he was so ahead of his time and here they were in this staid '60's setting. Stunning, really. Thank GOD for foreign countries who really embraced this music and truly appreciated it. The US was still in the backwoods during this time.

@nathanmattor401

7 жыл бұрын

It seems to me that time still hasn't caught up with this kind of music. The humanity of it, coupled with the deeply experimental nature, touches me deeply. I love much other music too, but this stuff will always be on the highest shelf in my mind.

@AidanCarberry

6 жыл бұрын

Lita Sandy backwoods? The U.S had already loved it to death

@mlankford6077

5 жыл бұрын

Lita Sandy the US is where this is from dumbass

@oluwaogundiran

5 жыл бұрын

A beautifully summed up retort.

@richardmedley7574

5 жыл бұрын

Ya know

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!!!

Spark a joint, stick on some Jazz and forget the rest of the world! There is nothing better in life.