Preemo AND Buckethead, lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckshot_LeFonque
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 30 August 2018 07:07 (five years ago) link
Olé and Africa/Brass are my favourite Coltrane albums. His discography's so vast though, and I've only started exploring it a few years ago.
― willem, Thursday, 30 August 2018 07:23 (five years ago) link
I did not know about the key changes in Giant Steps, well explained in this awkwardly titled video from Vox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tIvfP9A2w
― niels, Monday, 26 November 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Adam Neely is a Coltrane obsessive. He did this video a while back and it blew my mind:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98jwtm5U4E
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
Adam is really smart. I took some lessons from him for a little while a few years ago and loved talking to him.
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Poor Tommy Flanagan. I thought they should have mentioned that he played Giant Steps on every gig he could after that, just so people would know he got it together (or at least I remember hearing that anecdotally).
Great video otherwise.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Feel like “most” “serious” fans have gotten beyond that, but maybe that is just wishful thinking. By the time I was seeing him I don’t recall him playing “Giant Steps” and don’t really remember too many people bringing it up in conversation.
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
This new 1963 box set Impulse is putting out seems like kind of a ripoff to me - it's the tracks from that "lost album" they just released, with John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Live at Birdland, and I think some other previously released stuff tacked on.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
Ah, good to know, James.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
I’ve been geeking out to his solo on But Not for Me from My Favorite Things lately. He does stuff in there that already sounds like “late” Coltrane
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
Urrr, brainfart, I meant Summertime, not But Not For Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEftw9o1joo
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
semi kicking myself for not picking up whichever European tour was £15 in FOPP.Did get Village Vanguard though just realising that I probably had most of it since i still have most of teh box set somewhere.Want to pick up most of his Impulse lps and probably a few of teh Atlantic ones.
Also should have grabbed Pharoah Sanders' Elevation when I saw it in Honest Johns.
Do love Afro Blue Impressions since chancing on it on vinyl in Belfast 28 years ago & I assume the European tour material is going to be pretty similar.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
& I assume the European tour material is going to be pretty similar.
It mostly is, but the first disc-and-a-half is with Eric Dolphy. I haven't checked, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could find just the Coltrane/Dolphy live European stuff as a standalone disc.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
(sorry, to clarify: the first disc-and-a-half of the Live Trane: The European Tours box)
Man, Interstellar Space is really peak music
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 January 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
listening to that prestige '58 box .. it's often quite familiar stuff, but still so good.
― calzino, Thursday, 11 April 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Paul Chambers, Jimm Cobb, Tommy Flanagan, Red Garland, Louis Hayes, Freddie Hubbard - literally fucking top notch '58 combos!
― calzino, Thursday, 11 April 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
Coltrane w Kenny Burrell was one of my first jazz records and I love it so much
It's sort of interesting in jazz how since these guys all did so many sessions in short periods of time, it can be sort of arbitrary which one you wind up starting with and that one often becomes a favorite.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
uh hi dere
Now comes word of another new album by the classic John Coltrane Quartet, with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Blue World will be released on Impulse!/UMe on Sept. 27, and like Both Directions it offers an unexpected view on a pivotal period in the band's evolution. It was recorded at Van Gelder Studios on June 24, 1964 — a few weeks after the quartet put a finishing touch on the album Crescent — as the soundtrack to a Canadian art film. Because the date had gone unnoted in session recording logs, this music has occupied a blind spot for Trane-ologists, archivists and historians.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/16/751516859/a-lost-album-from-john-coltrane-is-found-with-thanks-to-a-french-canadian-direct
― sleeve, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
fuuuuck
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
nice
― tylerw, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
anything in the vicinity of Crescent already has my full attention
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
otm
― sleeve, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
The new song is really good, and the idea of the 1964 quartet re-recording "Naima," "Village Blues," "Like Sonny" and "Traneing In" is very interesting to me. I am fully on board for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m24Q78QeHA
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
oh yeah that's fabulous, thanks
― sleeve, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
this is very good and exciting
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Really want to listen to this on cd, from a black & orange digipack, on a boombox for full effect.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
that new track is indeed wonderful. just what i needed on a sunday evening.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 18 August 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
Listening to the whole album now. It's two versions of "Naima," three versions of "Village Blues," one each of "Like Sonny" and "Traneing In," and the one brand-new track. About 37 minutes of music in all. No bad performances, and the sound — it's in mono — has real punch. I love it. Gonna be listening to this one a lot more than Both Directions At Once, for sure.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
oh you didn't like Both Directions? I really loved it. if this is better I'm really excited
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
I liked it (bought the 2CD version), but I didn't love it. This one hits my personal sweet spot better, both because of the mono sound and because all the tunes are basically blues riffs.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO HEAR THIS
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 22 August 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
I'm confused, isn't "Blue World" just a slower take of Out of this World?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTTNL-RHEMs
― budo jeru, Thursday, 21 May 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
Barry Harris!
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 May 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
"bakai" (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwFw7YEzHg
this is some badass shit. from his first session as a leader. because of whatever reasons, he doesn't even take the first solo! also sahib shihab on baritone!
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Monday, 15 November 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link
John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy - Evenings At The Village Gate
^^^
this newish dug up from the Impulse archives release is really good, it's a rough single mic recording but the music really cuts through and features some amazing playing from Dolphy.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 14 August 2023 08:36 (nine months ago) link
I picked up one of the European tour box sets from FOPP a few years ago. Presumably same line up though not sure about bassist. Cost I think £15 back then and there was a 2nd volume from the next year, or was it previous. It's 61 and 62 anyway. Haven't looked at it in a while but I think it was pretty great.The box set of Village Vanguard sets was quite good too
― Stevo, Monday, 14 August 2023 11:05 (nine months ago) link
the star lineup on this one also includes McCoy Tyner/Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison/Art Davis.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 14 August 2023 11:14 (nine months ago) link
I think he only had 2 steady lineups under his own name so it would either be Tyner/Jones plus Workman or Garrison and possibly Davis and depending on time some of the time either Dolphy or Sanders and then Sanders/Alice/Ali/Garrison plus possible augmentation.
― Stevo, Monday, 14 August 2023 11:53 (nine months ago) link
This is the first time I've ever seen anyone describe A Love Supreme as boring.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 14 August 2023 13:12 (nine months ago) link
nevertheless
― mark s, Monday, 14 August 2023 13:37 (nine months ago) link
Not the first time I've seen it described as boring tbh.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 14 August 2023 13:44 (nine months ago) link
Dolphy's clarineting on my favorite things is some wonderful playing, then comes Trane ... it's great stuff
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 14 August 2023 14:07 (nine months ago) link
on this new live one I mean
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 14 August 2023 14:08 (nine months ago) link
It's a great Elvin record, what a gift
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Monday, 14 August 2023 16:53 (nine months ago) link
this dolphy recording is really excellent for a single mic recording. I saw notes that it was drum-heavy and maybe, slightly, but nothing inexcusable. that said with the advent of the technology peter jackson is using for demixing for the Beatles, I'd be really into seeing that same technology used in older jazz recordings like this.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 14 August 2023 17:40 (nine months ago) link
I wrongly posted it was from the Impulse archives, I've since read it was accidentally discovered in NY public library.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 14 August 2023 17:57 (nine months ago) link
It is a killer recording.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 14 August 2023 18:55 (nine months ago) link
Looked at the track listing and was kinda bowled over that they perform "Africa" (!)
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 14 August 2023 21:16 (nine months ago) link