Thelonious Monk - Rhythm-A-Ning (Brussels, 1963)

Thelonious Monk performing "Rhythm-A-Ning" with Charlie Rouse on saxophone, John Ore on bass and Frankie Dunlop on drums live in Belgium, 1963.

[pedroberoes]

this is one of monks most genius moments right here.

[jzzft]

Frankie Dunlop is my all time favorite drummer in accompanying Monk. Other cats were great but Dunlop fit Monk like a glove - much like Rouse did on tenor

[ddevoester]

I love How Monk gives his bandmates doesn't play all over them, in fact sometimes he decides not to play at all!

[mewsick]

Monk hanging onto those repeated suspense chords for so long during rouses solo is just BEAUTIFUL as it was tense! I LOVE THAT MUSICAL SHIT SO MUCH OMG

[nicobuhne]

That part in charles' solo with the same chords takes it to another level complete with the visual of monk dancing facing charles. Art!

[JohnnyWarman-lf]

I was 12 years old when this beautiful magic music was being created ❤ Thank God for the internet x x x

[jean-marielerat]

Quelle musique extraordinaire ! Quel quatuor formidable ! Quelle époque bénie !

[nesptahsoitis]

Wow....this is beautiful!!!! Unbelievable.

[TheXynos]

Thelonious Monk /A great inventor, an innovator in spite of himself, without calculations, all to his genius this Thelonious Monk of my heart with his very particular piano technique, his percussive way of tapping on the black and white keys of the keyboard with his hands like rackets and his fingers like drumsticks, his harmonic finds from the other sphère, his own and uncompromising swinging, his melodic honesty that goes from the most obvious, the most elegant, to the most dramatic of the singing of a black piano, the melancholy Around Midnight etc ... then he can do the bear dance around his black piano without being taken for a madman, but for a genius, a good genius who holds us by the goatee, a saviour of the homeland of the soul and the heart. Thank you so much for your music, always dear Thelonicous! P.G.Y Patrick Geffroy Yorffeg
Thelonious Monk /Un grand inventeur, un perturbateur "endolocrien"et surtout pas endocrinien, un novateur bien malgré lui, sans calculs, tout à son génie ce Thelonious Monk de mon coeur avec sa technique pianistique toute particulière, sa manière percussive de pianoter sur les touches noires et blanches du clavier avec ses mains comme des raquettes et ses doigts comme des baguettes de tambour, ses trouvailles harmoniques venues d'une autre sphère, son sens de l'humour, son souffle, son swingue bien à lui et sans concession, son honnêteté mélodique qui va du beau le plus manifeste, le plus élégant, jusqu'au plus dramatique du chant d'un piano noir de la mélancolie Around Midnight etc ... alors il peut bien faire la danse de l'ours autour de son piano noir sans qu'on le prenne pour un fou, mais pour un génie, un bon génie qui nous tient par la barbichette, un sauveur de la patrie de l'âme et du coeur . Merci infiniment pour ta musique toujours cher Thelonious ! P.G.Y Patrick Geffroy Yorffeg

[HenryRedbone]

Love how monk seemingly was just dancing to the average spectator, but he was like that writer, about to sink in between the lines... write a masterpiece...

[wolfgangakoch]

Wow! All of them at their best—some kind of rare synergy!

[topp]

No lie. Frankie Dunlop — is my favorite Monk drummer (including Blakey).

[ruudbergamin]

Great performance of this Monk Classic. Nice tempo.

[arthurbaker]

Thank you for posting this gem. What a play we can see!!

[CoolCurzon]

Frankie Dunlap made the drums 'sing' instead of merely bashing out the rhythm like so many other bop drummers.

[sabsam]

Miss the time when musicians were performing with passion and soul. Not for the paycheck

[systematic_hydromatic]

Not that anyone cares, but this was the theme to some radio show on RRR Melbourne back in the early / mid 1990s on Saturday or Sunday mornings. My old man used to have it on. I never knew it was Monk.

[rafaelrieck]

Hier sieht und hört man, wie körperbetont Monks Musik ist!

[daigreatcoat]

I think this is one of Rouse's better solos. Very often, I feel as if he's coasting, conserving energy, The quartet's long existence did include some rather routine performances, though Monk almost always played really well. There's not a live quartet recording without something to recommend it.

[robsudduth]

Great track, very energetic, uniquely so perhaps because the recording is one half tone faster than it should be. This tune is in B-flat. This recording is B natural. Big difference in the speed.
Needs to be pitch corrected.