God-bothering
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
What can I say about this album? I think it’s the finest piece of music ever recorded.
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Dumpster Diving
John Coltrane - Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
My favourite Coltrane playing is when he’s on the soprano saxophone, and there’s lots of it to be had here.
The fact that this recording sat in someone’s cupboard, unreleased for 40 years is just incredible, as is the fact that the record label destroyed the masters to make some room. Can you imagine?
“It’s looking a bit cluttered in here.”
“Yeah, throw those unreleased John Coltrane master tapes in the skip.”
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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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