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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 envisioned for the moment of ecstasy that we as a family made it though the first se... MORE
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Well, the Giants have finally gotten revenge for the 1961 and 1962 NFL championships. In their honor, I thought I'd offer a little John Coltrane.
The video features animated musical notation of Coltrane's solo, which gives a sense of what it would be like to try to sight-read the piece. No wonder people get lost trying to play this.
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As promised, here's the original Giant Steps. A notoriously difficult tune to solo on due to the fast changes involved. Each note in the head = new chord...
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This robot can play John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" on a tenor saxophone. It is supposed to be amazing. When I was a kid there was this place called the Downingtown Farmer's Market that had as many non-farm booths as meat and produce. Among the booths selling stripped magazines and plastic covered furniture, there were a lot of coin operated machines. There were rides, a robot fortune teller, a machine that molded toy dinosaurs to order, and a couple of machines with rob... MORE
