Thelonious Monk videos
I was using TuneUp to clean up my Monk tracks in iTunes, it suggested some Youtube videos. Oof…
Around 2:50 in this one, of him in Oslo in April of ’66, he does his famous random stand-up, followed immediately by a solo showing his percussive technique. He was long criticized for his lack of proper technique, but I don’t know how else a pianist could achieve the right syncopation without it:
All of “Straight, No Chaser” by Clint Eastwood is online:
And there’s a podcast with footage of Orin Keepnews, who helped produce Monk’s concert at New York Town Hall in 1959:
