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john coltrane - giant steps
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:55 am
by somejerk
fucking phenomenal jazz music. there's a couple tracks and then variations of the tracks, at different tempos, with minor variations. such lovely music!
"spiral" is so nice, as is "naima". definitely my favorites on the album.
anyone else into jazz?
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:05 am
by tacospheros
love me some jazz .
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:12 pm
by shonky
Yeah love that album, not a mad jazzhead but love Coltrane's stuff. Mingus always welcome too, played Haitian Fight Song on my streamizm Sunday sesh a while back.
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:32 am
by digistepz
Its all about Gil Evans...fuckin badman
Smoooove, but still fuckin great
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:55 am
by datura
I go through periods of listening to it, and then finding it hard to listen to. It depends on my mood.
Music doesn't get much better than Kind of Blue though.
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:31 pm
by dappa d
love it.
Africa sessions are even stronger in my opinion.
Someone else who also doesnt get enough props in my mind is Alice Coltrane (who died december of last year, just beginning a new tour).
Spacey, surging, ecstatic music.
I'll see if I can't find any songs from her "PTAH THE EL-DAOUD" Album.
Also check JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA.
Here is a discography
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:37 pm
by jim
Giant steps is brilliant. Love Coltrane. Really impressive improvisation on the record, over really quick and strange chord changes he still manages to sound great and make memorable melodic lines.
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:38 pm
by jim
Love Supreme and Ascension are also the shit. Still haven't got my head round ascension to be honest, but I like trying and since I eventually got into Ornette Coleman's "Free jazz" I'll probably do the same wi this.
sun ra
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:58 pm
by blackmass plastics
I can highly recommend cheking out Sun Ra and the Arkestra , a grossly underated group of jazz visionaries working from the 50's til the present day (sun ra himself died in the early ninties),sax maestro Marshal Allen still keeps the band going.
From the abstract multidimensional angles of The Heliocentric Worlds to the warm classic Jazz in Silhouette their output and energy is astounding
Its worth tracking down the documentary 'A Joyful Noise' ,there are plenty of torrents of it around.
links:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sun+Ra
http://www.myspace.com/sunrasaturn
http://www.myspace.com/soundofjoy
http://www.myspace.com/thesunraarkestra
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:54 pm
by benj b
two records from the same year;
Crescent - v underrated
and of course;
A Love Supreme
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:01 pm
by luv2spin32
jazz is brilliant...good inspiration, too!
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:21 pm
by yojimbo
saw this a few years back ......its not the full tune but
is a great visual interpretation (i reckons)
CLICK YE HERE!
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:35 am
by 7"
pure genius, legend.
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:32 pm
by holik
i love jazz music.
out of john coltrane, the mindboggling genius he was, i got to say meditations is my all time favorite. the deepness of the layers is always a surprise.
just bought JOURNEY TO SATCHIDANANDA the other week, been listening to it religiously. very dope album.
also... on a different note, yusef lateef- savoy; morning sessions
oh so so so good.