Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (* 10. Oktober 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina; † 17. Februar 1982 in Weehawken, New Jersey) war ein US-afroamerikanischer Jazzmusiker (Pianist und Komponist). Details siehe: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk

Blue Monk

Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (Oslo, April 1966). Um clipe do video "Monk in Oslo". Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.

Blue Monk

At Carnegie Hall. 1957. Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.

Bolivar Blues / Monks Dream

Live in '66, Full Concert

Full Concert - Full Album - "The High Priest Of Modern Jazz"

Personnel:
Piano: Thelonious Monk.
Tenor Sax: Charlie Rouse.
Bass: Larry Gales.
Drums: Ben Riley

In the afternoon of 15 APR 1966, Thelonious Monk’s quartet recorded - without an audience - at the NRK TV studio in Oslo, Norway, Monk’s only stop in Norway ever:
00:00 Lulu’s Back In Town
15:33 Blue Monk
25:44 ‘Round Midnight
(Riley plays a bikini kit: his drums were lost en route.)

Two days later the Quartet was in another TV studio. This Sunday session in Copenhagen, Denmark, also lacked an audience:
32:35 Lulu's Back in Town
50:20 Don't Blame Me, unaccompanied piano
55:47 Epistrophy