Comments on: Coltrane Variations

By: Dark Vader

Dark Vader — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:22:36 +0000

#4: Huum, Iori Fujita correct me if I’m wrong, but with your ‘twist’ one could get the Impressions that John Coltrane wrote mechanical music for students…? So What you might say!? Well, since Coltrane is one of My Favorite Things I must oppose! Coltrane is the most expressive and divine improviser the world has ever seen. If Coltrane thought that Giant Steps was too mechanical, the reason was most probably his sensibility, and nothing else. If you let a real Robot play the solo - it’s Giant Steps from the original! (You could call it original ‘Variations’)

To get into a higher intellectual and psychological mood - just listen to Naima.

I fully agree with the comment: “Trane was the soul of jazz. This is more than music. This is spiritual. This will take your heart and mind to another level of understanding passion. The closes example of this is the act of making love.”

By: Iori Fujita

Iori Fujita — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:52:45 +0000

Hello! Sean
You wrote;
“Coltrane knew his music theory backwards and forwards, and he put a tremendous amount of thought into composing Giant Steps; rumor has it that it was meant as an exercise for students, but has since grown into a popular standard, in much the same way as Bach’s Goldberg Variations. (Apparently Trane himself decided that it was too mechanical, and didn’t play it very much after the record appeared.)”

I have a comment;
Bach’s Goldberg Variations were not meant as an exercise for students. This work of Bach was an intellectual and psychological product in the world of music. It is difficult to play it, but it was never too mechanical.
I called it “Music of Intellect”. Visit my site;
http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/goldberg/indexe.html
And of course it is beautiful.
http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/goldberg/ggpage00.html

By: Dark Vader

Dark Vader — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:15:35 +0000

Sean, is this heaven or what!? Jazz and cosmos, man I’m with you!

Cool animation! If you like TBP maybe I should hint on the Swedish’s original (yea yea, we all know that Jazz originated in Finland, but what the heck ). Check out E.S.T (EsbjÃ¶rn Svensson Trio), playing jazz on MTV and rock venues with inspiration from punk and heavy metal.

Weird?? If you check out the E.S.T homepage you will see a Flash-intro showing weak lensing! (move the cursor slow over the face’s). And the explanation is probably that EsbjÃ¶rn Svensson is very interested in astronomy. Quantum coincidence…

By: tom fish

tom fish — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:13:41 +0000

I heard that cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit in a bar the other night, very cool!

By: Allyson

Allyson — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:21:22 +0000

…anyone know of any other examples?

There’s a ton on myspace, which was its original purpose before it became one stop shopping for teen girl angst and the creepy old men who love them.

I’ve nothing on jazz, but since you’re in LA, check Grant Langston, Four Star Mary, or Dalton Grant. All play locally, all have blogs or journals.

Warning: The first two links play music, in case anyone clicks at work would be saddened to be suddenly accosted by guitar.