12-Tone?
John Coltrane – Giant Steps
The title track of this album is supposed to be a motherfucker to solo over. Ask poor Tommy Flanagan, the pianist on this recording, who had the sheet music dropped in his lap mere hours before the recording session, and – despite being thrown under the jazz-bus - made a better job of it than any of us ever could.
Whilst listening to this, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole over whether this piece was 12-Tone or not. There’s an interesting article here (blog.danreitz.com/why-giant-st…), if you’re as dull as me.
Nowadays, as far as difficulty playing music is concerned, I’m just glad when I can see the numbers on the label without my glasses, to be honest.
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