To hear Oscar Peterson (a legend) talk about Thelonious Monk (another legend) in such high regard, truly speaks about not only the character of Oscar Peterson but also of the talent and skill of Thelonious Monk. Really a blessing to have both of them make such complex and beautiful music.
@Dowlphin
2 ай бұрын
Oops, I heard "the loneliest monk". 😅
@MoneyAli75
Ай бұрын
🙏
@BrianRussick
8 жыл бұрын
a legend playing a legend; so classy.
@BrunoGebarski
6 жыл бұрын
As Maestro Oscar Peterson said, the complexity of Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) is so gigantic, complex and colorful that it takes an outstanding pianist to even dare to improvise on such a tune: I remember as a music student, sweating just studying the chord progression, trying to figure out what scales this genius mixed together to get such a jazz tapestry of chord development! Here again the brilliant and surprising treatment of Maestro Peterson's both magical hands and unique touch...
@raanajbrezenoff7172
8 жыл бұрын
how awesome for oscar to speak directly to us. We are so lucky.
@fabuniverse3908
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, so clear, concise, rich, flowing, earthy and listenable. Like his playing. Whereas Monk: spiky, weird, unique, enigmatic, alien.
@kaleidoscopio5
6 жыл бұрын
He had the most beautiful technique I saw in a pianist. Like Rubinstein, smooth, relax and full of color. Amazing.
@jazzpiano22
10 жыл бұрын
Monk was a raw and unpolished genius, Oscar a technical high skilled and polished one. Two different worlds; interesting to hear one world play the music of the other.
@kwixotic
8 жыл бұрын
+tuney toons Interesting point here. To do Monk justice, the piece needs a more "messy" kind of rendition. An analogy that comes to mind is certain actors giving fine yet "clean" performances and as such not really so imaginative and spontaneous because they're not "messy" or chaotic enough.
@mboyanicholsonjazz
5 жыл бұрын
Monk was not 'raw and unpolished'. He stylistically chose his disjointed style of playing. He was a student of the piano who advanced quickly. And he played like Art Tatum when he first came on the scene. One of Monk's teachers was James P. Johnson, who lived in the same area of New York when Monk was young. And Monk was well versed in stride piano because of that. People like Willie the Lion Smith and Mary Lou Williams encouraged him when they heard his unusual way of playing. The Lion even chastised him when he heard him go into Tatum-esque type playing and say, "do your thing that you play. I like that. We already have a Tatum. Play your thing".
@Santosificationable
4 жыл бұрын
@@kwixotic You're right, but it's okay for Peterson to play it in his own way. It may be Monk's, but this is Peterson's interpretation.
@saag111
2 жыл бұрын
@@mboyanicholsonjazz Very interesting. I would like to read about Monk, have you read that in a book? Any recomendation?
@mboyanicholsonjazz
2 жыл бұрын
@@saag111 Yes. Read Robin Kelly's biography of Monk, "Life and Times of an AmericanOriginal". Kelly goes in depth into his life, and interviewed relatives, colleagues, etc. But its always been known also, that Billie Taylor and Willie the Lion Smith said Monk played like Tatum initially. Taylor has mentioned it in interviews. Monk was an educated musician. He studied classical repertoire had a background playing church music as well. What's great is Robin Kelly's book goes further in dispelling the myth that he was uneducated as a musician. The whole 'intuitive genius' thing is a pop culture construct to make armchair experts (a.k.a. : music critics) who write about music but don't play it, feel better about not knowing what they're writing about. But Robin Kelly digs in deep to the reality of this music and looks at Monk in a 3 dimensional way, not the cliché of "gee what a mysterious and simple guy" monochromatic fluff that's usually written. The book is great. I highly recommend it. (By the way the ballad Ruby my Dear, was named for his first love from youth. She was Jamaican. She criticized him for not sounding like pop music of the day. I always was amused by that! Lol).
@louislark4506
4 жыл бұрын
A phenomenal Oscar Peterson's " Round Midnight" rendition played with a pensive, opulent, splendid, jazzy style precision with lots of 🎹 piano technical twists and turns. What a ravishing 🎹 piano opus! I immensely enjoyed!
@perchst
14 жыл бұрын
Im speechless....This is the single best version of Round Midnight I have heard....No on compares to Oscar...no one...
@beastl8rsk8r02
4 жыл бұрын
Per Christensen seems like you haven’t heard any of Monk’s recordings.
@Ramiro173
3 жыл бұрын
Keith jarret for ever
@jackburgess8579
3 жыл бұрын
@@beastl8rsk8r02 Monk could barely play the piano.
@RichardByrd-rx7xt
15 күн бұрын
Bull…Art Tatum, class by himself..besides Monk, there’s Bud Powell and Eroll Gardner. F.Y.I. Getting back to the undisputed king, Art Tatum, when Oscar Peterson heard a recording by Art Tatum, he thought two men were playing, and was so intimidated, he wouldn’t touch a piano for a month.
@musicsdarkangel
4 жыл бұрын
I swear, no one's sound travels up and out of the piano like Oscar's. It's lovely, never stuck but always free.
@0live0wire0
10 жыл бұрын
It's hard not to like this, Peterson is great. But now I'm filled with an urge to listen to Monk playing it. No one can beat the original and I don't care about no speed, dexterity or whatever. There's no shredding, every note has it's exact place and purpose, resonating with the everlasting universal power of creation around us.
@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out
2 жыл бұрын
And, though Monk's technique is not nearly as expansive as Peterson's, the technique he does use is crystal clean, the rhythmic placement always effective, and his phrasing is astoundingly original and influential. Peterson continued the tradition from Tatum a bit forward, but Monk takes it to completely new place, not only with his compositions, but with his playing. "every note has it's place and purpose". Exactly. No fluff and fill. Every note very much in the rhythm pocket.
@metaviewx2091
9 ай бұрын
Great analysis! This is why Peterson used the term pensive.
@Croozer
9 жыл бұрын
O.P. playing a T. Monk classic, it don't get much better than this.
@jimihd1
9 жыл бұрын
Croozer lol yeah dude, I'm totally with you
@kwixotic
7 жыл бұрын
With the exception of Keith Jarrett who has an amazing rendition of this also on YT.
@souradeepbhattacharya6107
5 жыл бұрын
Who are the ones who disliked it..? :|
@marco6284
3 жыл бұрын
Kenny Barrons is great too!
@CoolCat123450
12 жыл бұрын
Theolonious Monk was a jazz legend. Oscar showed that in his own light, and I think he did it quite well.
@leefranks1181
Жыл бұрын
My Dad was a Jazz pianist for many years in the UK and Europe, his main influences were Oscar and George Shearing, Art Tatum. This video exemplifies why, Oscar is majestic, such beautiful virtuosity, harmonically, melodically, everything. Wow, just wow.
@truro007
11 жыл бұрын
When I was a young boy in the early 1960s my father played the piano. His mentors were Fats Waller....probably one of the finest entertainers on piano ever.....he loved Honeysuckle Rose and played the alligator crawl to death on the old upright Chappel piano we had. I loved it. His favourite was Errol Garner for style and entertainment and not so much Peterson who was technically brilliant. It was Garner's rythmn that got dad going.
@missdee4927
7 жыл бұрын
What a treat to hear him play this. My goodness.
@bjrnasmundvaa8974
7 жыл бұрын
MissMulatto you did not miss it :)
@Tizohip
6 жыл бұрын
search Liszt Etude 6 on YT
@Tizohip
6 жыл бұрын
paganini/Liszt etude 6
@Tizohip
6 жыл бұрын
Alexander Lubyantsev
@catfish336699
13 жыл бұрын
oscar always told a beautiful story with his playing.
@guspisano9777
4 жыл бұрын
Oscar's technique is all about melodic flow and sweetness. The Monk's playing represents the genious and chaos of his life. (I kept hoping Oscar would throw in at least one elbow shot)
@benjaminmagambo3849
5 жыл бұрын
The best round midnight interpretation of all time !
@jelopezandthegrips
10 жыл бұрын
Personally I enjoy OP's rendition of this - so smooth and polished. Certainly a contrast with the original in those respects, and I understand that Monk was one-of-a-kind, no doubt, but this is really more my thing. I think it's a stunningly beautiful take.
@tomotoole8589
2 ай бұрын
Went to his concert in Auckland NZ in the 60sm Brilliant.
@learning-og4to
Жыл бұрын
You can hear out the respect he shows to Thelonious Monk. He contributed his playing to the tune, he connected Thelonious' harmony. But he didn't change the tune, he didn't add his own ideas that directly. He demonstrated Round Midnight and explained it in his playing.
@maramazone
7 ай бұрын
Masterfully executed! ❤🙏❤️
@OdgeBrown
11 жыл бұрын
His style is sweet and rich. Just like is phat bling!
@MarioDConti
9 ай бұрын
I was glued to this video till the very end. Just ... phenomenal.
@JazzyFabbry
10 жыл бұрын
Oscar is Great, Monk is Great... what a perfect combination! I can't stop listening it. Anyaway i see that there are even 10 that doesn't like this.. how the world is different... sincerely i cannot think of one thing wrong in this... but ten yes... Anyway Thanks Oscar Thanks Monks i love play piano due to Great guys like You.
@TheSonzwi
10 жыл бұрын
Fabbry, you are so right.
@filistro
10 жыл бұрын
I Don't think that 10 dislikes are that much compared with all them who liked it. But you are right...we Don't understand why They Don't like it...
@lsbrother
9 жыл бұрын
Why so surprised that some people don't like it - so what? Different people have different tastes and inclinations - do you really imagine that everyone, with no exceptions, will like everything - without exception - that you like?! Do you really live in such a narrow world?!
@tropicvibe
8 жыл бұрын
+lsbrother It's not about living in a narrow world, it's also about recognizing talent and appreciating it, regardless of whether one likes it or not. Otherwise, it's everyone else who's living in a narrow world. As the saying goes, respect must be given where respect is due....
@grantc4516
7 жыл бұрын
Some people are not capable of recognising talent. Surely, you must know that.
@truro007
11 жыл бұрын
Lovely rendition. Beautiful pianist......you can see the Art Tatum influence on Peterson's style......wonderful.
@peppinoortoleva5386
4 жыл бұрын
They are two different worlds. Peterson weaves around his notes, and he does it beautifully. Monk has been inventing and re-inventing the piano all the time
@jazzlars7122
10 жыл бұрын
Great pianist and a great song!
@Bashanvibe
7 жыл бұрын
I wish I could have a third of his vocabulary
@danielarmengol5440
3 жыл бұрын
One tenth would be ok for me
@saag111
10 жыл бұрын
Love Oscar technique and almost perfection playing, and this was actually beautifuly played. But i also love Monk just the way he plays, no more no less, he is perfect in his style.
@anthonyhilton6049
7 жыл бұрын
Respect from one giant to another - and how we miss them
@jefft9729
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@luciosergiobrogi8595
10 жыл бұрын
No words . Listen to heaven music
@eltonparks659
3 жыл бұрын
Now that's a Real tribute! Just wow!
@ojshilinski8358
3 жыл бұрын
Oscar Peterson's sensitive touch gives a special tenderness to this wonderful composition. "ROUND MIDNIGHT has been a favorite of mine since I was young - thank you KZitem . . .
@zenchord
2 ай бұрын
Totally Awesome!
@Bflatblues55
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting the marvelous Oscar Peterson videos~ He is a favorite of mine.
@madamjaynie87
5 жыл бұрын
What an incredible talent...
@irakey
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Beautiful...
@paulshi2821
3 жыл бұрын
KZitem is full of treasures ❤️
@asdfghjkldfghjhgcgyuigfyui9792
5 жыл бұрын
no one will ever be better
@cpendertube
11 жыл бұрын
Both great in their on right.......this is what jazz is all about. Room for all!!!
@philipsarkol9572
8 жыл бұрын
Oscar points out the greatness of Thelonius, It takes greatness to play so masterfull...
@ricksaunders
7 жыл бұрын
Breathtaking.
@Theworkingclassdrummer
11 жыл бұрын
Beautiful....
@falanajerido6939
8 жыл бұрын
Beautiful music
@christophsiegrist3066
8 жыл бұрын
2 greatest.
@eamonnmorris5331
7 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, and perfect, as only Oscar can ...
@Watch_the_video_
Жыл бұрын
👏👏👏
@dsilvatrio
10 жыл бұрын
Whoever hit unlike please enlighten me so that I can see what's wrong with this IMO outstanding performance.
@JustLikeGreta
8 жыл бұрын
+Darwin Silva Hey those dislikes could have easily come from an Aerosmith troller
@MrMrBilko
10 жыл бұрын
Genius
@dokonidanko
3 ай бұрын
divine man
@sebastianm6564
8 жыл бұрын
amazing🎹🎵
@misterjaroslav6859
5 жыл бұрын
Great! I hope I can play this in a few years. Thanks!
@JF-qd1cx
10 жыл бұрын
masterpiece
@AB-qo3vh
6 жыл бұрын
Ingenious performance
@ezabjacorn6208
3 ай бұрын
My father's favorite
@darylmichael7
6 жыл бұрын
Can’t find a dang thing wrong with it. Marvy!
@cerval41
11 жыл бұрын
Don't forget to listen to Bill Evans marvelous interpretation of Round About Midnight!His wonderful chord and harmonic genius
@1099231
2 жыл бұрын
Oscar Peterson plays any tune, best version ever! 🤣
@DontBeAScab314
4 жыл бұрын
Them fuckin hands and the way the move is so elegant.
@russelldavid27
12 жыл бұрын
Agreed - it's the smooth arpeggios.
@asianamericanadvice6016
10 ай бұрын
Holy God. Altogether different sadness emerged near the end with one particular chord. Did Peterson understand Monk more than most? Better than, say, Miles Davis. Harmonic whatever, sheesh, I felt some odd painful beauty.
@asianamericanadvice6016
10 ай бұрын
The sequence starting about 50 seconds from the end....wow
@peterlaw201250
3 жыл бұрын
The likes of we will never see again this side of eternity.I do hope he is in heaven and I get to play with him.Perhaps he would let me play his"Easter Suite"and maybe NHOP on bass. Pete Law x Royal Marines Corps of Drums/jazz drummer.
@Melpheos1er
7 жыл бұрын
I got goose bump listening to this version. First time i hear it. Feels like going back in time. When was this recorded ?
@fabichaz7830
3 күн бұрын
Wow
@chowmein5947
7 жыл бұрын
Wicked licks
@jwanbass
10 жыл бұрын
chills!!!!
@ryanchicko9487
6 жыл бұрын
I love him! what taste
@melf9361
6 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/k5mQmqlvk5R0YGk
@XplusX12345678
3 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is. Both peterson and monk cite art tatum as their number one influence. They both took something different from him. Peterson obviously took arts tremendous technique and evolved on that. Monk tool Art's reharmonization and innovative harmonic ideas.
damn he play with a ring He also don't need sheet music. really POG
@mchaney2
Жыл бұрын
GOAT
@SOGLIDER
11 жыл бұрын
All I have from these broadcasts has been uploaded.
@SOGLIDER
13 жыл бұрын
@predoje: It is from a tv broadcast recorded about 25 years ago.
@ccaammiinniiito2
11 жыл бұрын
There certainly is some good stuff posted here. .You guys should make your way to Santa Barbara and inform some of those "critics" there how they're missing the point of great piano playing and just who's who in that realm.
@Naltino
12 жыл бұрын
I can't believe some of the comments that are posted here in regards to OP's statements about Monk. Truer words could not have been spoken by OP. Monk's genius lies in his innovations of chord clusters as a compl
@joshbrownme
12 жыл бұрын
Someone should pour water on that piano.....Its on fire. Oscar Peterson plays the ivory off of the keys and interprets this one just like a world class musician should!!!!
@jacobzimmermann59
9 жыл бұрын
He may be playing Monk but he still sounds like Tatum.
@sidenotes
9 жыл бұрын
Jacob Zimmermann He may be playing Monk but he still sounds like Peterson. And that's the essence of Jazz, isn't it? :D
@kholeraver1
9 жыл бұрын
:D Genau , so sesshaft Herr Zimmermann und zu hören. Vielleicht denken Sie an einen Haarschnitt.
@Santosificationable
4 жыл бұрын
I see how many people say they sound alike. To me however they play differently. Tatum clearly had a lighter touch/attack.
@jacobzimmermann59
4 жыл бұрын
@@Santosificationable True, Peterson being a giant always played incredibly heavily and forcefully, more like Fats Waller, Earl Hines or Claude Bolling. But style-wise he comes straight from Tatum in my opinion.
@fabuniverse3908
3 жыл бұрын
Don't all decent jazz pianists sound a bit Tatum?
@itamarshapira7963
9 ай бұрын
2:32 - 2:44 what THE fuq the crunchiest shit I've ever heard. Goddamn
@epf1961
6 жыл бұрын
For a second there I was trying to figure out what he meant by "digital dexterity".. Then I remembered that our fingers are sometimes known as "digits".... (for a split second I imagined he was saying that he didn't consider Monk a computer genius!)
@XplusX12345678
4 жыл бұрын
epf1961 listen to monks music. His technique was awful. however, he was definitely more of composure/song writer.
@afonsosousa2684
4 жыл бұрын
@@XplusX12345678 Monk's technique wasn't awful. It was a perfectly deliberate choice to be subversive and innovative, and he knew full well what he was doing. Every once in a while you'll hear him slip into conventional, swinging bop lines before reverting to his usual messy style or throw in a complicated line almost as a wink. Barry Harris notes that when he spent with Monk, he'd sometimes play lines that Harris--considered to have greater technique--was unable to duplicate.
@jcf20010
3 жыл бұрын
@@XplusX12345678 Yes! I always thought others played Monk's compositions better than Monk. I think that's what OP was saying too.
@9VBGI
7 жыл бұрын
Respect
@dnettles
12 жыл бұрын
You're right!
@doctordave4247
Жыл бұрын
The late Keith Droste, jazz pianist and lifelong friend, took piano lessons from Oscar Peterson for three years. I asked him what it was like and he replied "intimidating."
@LyricistJSD
13 жыл бұрын
That was So Great & Awesome that the 5:21 minutes went by So Fast
@roya1e
9 жыл бұрын
Is this rubato? Completely?
@jimbaker6442
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting question. Rubato is the giving and taking of the tempo without ever losing the beat of the music. It very well could be!!!
@johnp234
12 жыл бұрын
second that motion!
@schaumermaldann
13 жыл бұрын
Er schafft es immer wieder dass man schon nach 2 Takten erkennt, dass er spielt. Das Klavier klingt nicht nach Klavier, es klingt nach Peterson.
@TheExciter980
13 жыл бұрын
thank you! awesome! And awesome recording! Did you record on a betamax!
@ccaammiinniiito2
11 жыл бұрын
Good stuff. You should've said more. It's good to read/listen to people who understand the in's and out's of the idiom. What do you think of Nat Cole's rendition of "Rose Room"? Or Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose"?
@twojstary2
12 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else find this interpretation chopin-like ?
@Andreeeiiii
14 жыл бұрын
5:10 gives it so much
@pyrokinetikrlz
2 жыл бұрын
Those fingers move ungodly across the keyboard!
@bonjornoduo224
8 жыл бұрын
I always wonder what exactly these jazz pianists do, and how can you learn it? For example: what kind of scale does Oscar use at 2:38
@jonahwraith1275
8 жыл бұрын
+Bonjorno Duo Riffs common in soul and blues music based off of a dominant 7 chord (this scale would be Bb mixolydian with both major and minor 3rd).
@bonjornoduo224
8 жыл бұрын
+jonah wraith Thanks!
@zubbubbi
8 жыл бұрын
+Bonjorno Duo It's a straight blues scale.
@user-gh6cy7vw2s
4 жыл бұрын
1:07
@kingj6753
8 жыл бұрын
Omg. Lawrence lyles channel has a rendition of this called Oscar peterson
@kmjofpdrey
9 жыл бұрын
Mr. Noir, I don't agree that "lack of enthusiasm" properly describes it, but I understand your misgivings about Oscar's performance. No doubt, with his words Oscar articulates Monk's greatness, but there is a disconnect with his treatment of the tune. Some tunes can never really be duplicated with any justice, and this is one of them. Its like Bono or Springsteen covering "Like A Rolling Stone". Pointless. The compositional genius of Round Midnight is undeniable, but Monk's unparalled performance of it is also intimately tied to the song's greatness. This is too often overlooked. Everything about Monk was original - they "threw away the mold when they made him". Both his playing and compositional genius sprang from the same fountain. Oscar can't be faulted for trying, but Monk is pretty untouchable.
@connorreviere4306
9 жыл бұрын
Honestly this performance, to my ears at least, largely overlooks the beauty of the tune in favor of fancy flourishes and embellishments. My favorite thing about Monk is the fact that he had a great sense of when to lay it on heavy, and when to back off and keep things "simple" in order to let the composition shine ("Simple" to Monk is obviously still very advanced to the average pianist). I feel like too many jazz players have strayed from this approach and instead have heavily prioritized harmonic complexity and technical prowess, while neglecting some of the more basic elements that make jazz such a beautiful and expressive art form. It seems like these days jazz has become overly academic.
@kwixotic
8 жыл бұрын
+Connor Reviere Yes, good points taken here. The "essence" of this piece might be elusive even to the technical geniuses like Oscar. So all the technical flourishes in the world might actually detract from the sort of creativity that characterized Monk's own rendition of it.
@eddiefor
6 жыл бұрын
A trenta secondi dalla fine
@luisazachhuber9600
8 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know when this telecast was recorded respectively broadcasted? It would be great if you could help me.
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