[John Coltrane - Olé / 18:14]If per chance you were to meet a stranger on a moonless night would you think much of his telling you: The moon does not shine, it merely reflects? Now picture yourself reading the following review by the same stranger: "Foals’ sonics dominate the senses. But they alone don’t make an open-and-shut case for Antidotes." While you would have looked askance at the for
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Predictably enough, following the two previous posts, it's time for some John Coltrane; as Big Youth sang (apparently nicking the line from The Last Poets) "John Coltrane died in vain of a Love Supreme".This is, however, not from "A Love Supreme" but is a later piece, which I hope you like.
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_"I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth." he said. "The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think."_
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so it's time to dust down John Coltrane's "Blue Train" (all ten minutes of it). Relax and enjoy it.By the way today is Robbie Coltrane's birthday (although he was in fact born McMillan)
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...when I got in tonight I was feeling "rode hard and put away wet" as my uncle Duck used to say...tired...like I used to be after running around the streets of New York City all day long...that hasn't happened in a while since I moved to LA, so tonight, just as I often used to do when I finally got to my 3rd floor walk-up after a day like this back in the Big Apple, I'm going to pour me a st...
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Just finished all my examinations yesterday. As soon as I walked out of that room I was overcome by the incredible need to listen to Coltrane. I rode my cycle home intent on having a freak out kinetic dance party. (A two year old girl does not know that you are not supposed to dance to John Coltrane.)So I came home and little one is laying in my wife's lap with 103 fever. Not what I had envisio...
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...I'm working outside and a Yogi/ Palmist who, while wearing a turban looked a lot like the Beatles' guru "*Maharishi Mahesh*":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi, just read me a fortune...I'm open to anything (since this editorial thing has gotten hairy and grown teeth, yeah, still finishing up refinements)...he told me I had a good heart...have had ups and downs over the past...
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A simple but interesting animation done by Michel Levey set to Coltrane's Giant Steps.
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_My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being … When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups … I want to speak to their souls._
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John Coltrane found the melody for "Spiritual" in a collection of black spirituals that he was studying. There's a well-known spiritual "No One Knows The Trouble I've Seen". This different melody from his collection shared that title. He orchestrated it for his band before their time at the Vanguard. They recorded it three times during their stay. This "C" take went on the original "Live At the...
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"Blue Waltz" is a performance by John Coltrane's Quartet of the main theme of John Coltrane's "Ascension", a much larger work recorded six weeks before this concert.This is extremely intense music. Even so, the "Ascension" performance which I'm pointing to on Rhapsody dwarfs this. Some who heard Ascension said it was one of the most powerful sounds ever recorded by humans. I had to listen to "A...
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*Yesterday I 'bought' my first record...it cost 20 Euros out of a dwindling 'treasury' (the cost of my food/drink for two days) but that doesn't matter to me.*I sifted through a dusty bin of vintage, alphabetically touching each face and began what will now be the beginning of a modest jazz collection.Why jazz? No other genre can please as much as the sound of jazz, it's a sensory time machine....
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_Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music._
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We celebrate the end of the year today with the second annual New Year's Eve Tribute to Trane-music for ringing in, or recovering the next day, or both. A lightning strike of an Afro Blue from the fall of 1963 opens the mix, followed by some musings on Trane from Ethan Iverson of The Bad [...]by Dan Alford Leave A Comment
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Jazz music means a lot to me. I try to view it as Coltrane did, as a gift from God which runs through the veins of those chosen to carry the message, an extension of the Lord passed through the ones he deems worthy to feel and share the message. Let go, and it shall be revealed unto us. I've listened to jazz almost as long as I've listened to rock and roll. The first time I really heard Coltr...
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