{"id":750,"date":"2006-12-07T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=750"},"modified":"2006-12-07T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T09:05:00","slug":"new_monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/12\/new_monk\/","title":{"rendered":"New Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Don Emanuel has managed to excerpt from a Polish television program a rare performance of &#8220;&#8216;Round Midnight&#8221; by Thelonious Monk.  It was taped during the Monk quartet&#8217;s 1966 European tour, with Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; and Ben Riley, drums. Watching Monk is half the fun. Mr. Emanuel posted the clip on <em>YouTube<\/em>. You may see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com:80\/watch?v=G3L3WOBT-Hw\"target=\"_blank\">by going here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>YouTube <\/em>also has a clip showing rehearsal and performance of &#8220;Evidence&#8221; by a medium-sized Monk band that includes Rouse, Riley, Gales, Phil Woods, Johnny Griffin, Ray Copeland and a trombonist who may be Benny Powell. We briefly see Monk in conference with Hall Overton, who did orchestrations for at least three concerts by similar Monk groups.  <em>YouTube<\/em> gives no information about date or place. This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fVj57fQBU6o&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\"target=\"_blank\">fascinating look<\/a> at Monk preparing a performance and an opportunity to see him solo at his best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides reader Don Emanuel has managed to excerpt from a Polish television program a rare performance of &#8220;&#8216;Round Midnight&#8221; by Thelonious Monk. It was taped during the Monk quartet&#8217;s 1966 European tour, with Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; and Ben Riley, drums. Watching Monk is half the fun. Mr. Emanuel posted the clip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}