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I recently put in my car CD player one of my first MP3 collection.
One of the tunes was one version of My favourite things played by coltrane's quartet. A "quiet", not too hectic version.
I ensure you, listenting to coltrane's soprano starting the chorus after the intro was like listening to the great masters of classical music. Even better. The sound of his soprano conjures a mystic aura reminiscent of the old wisdom of India (as I imagine it).
Incredible how much he was able to pull out from a simple pop tune.
Also mccoy's playing was unusually tame and meditative.

BigH, I was writing this as a sequel of the old music thread, but it was archived. I spotted your last post, yes, "Night of Ballads" is terrific. Sorry, I realize I didn't answer, in that period I was entangled in a difficult exam.

 
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Was this the version on his "My Favourite Things" album? I thought that was a relatively mellow version. I do have his 1 hour version on his Tokyo Concert. That was long!

Actually, he has quite a few albums out there - I especiallyl like the Giant Steps LP. Some of his more esoteric (religious-type) stuff is a bit hard to swallow for a while.
[cheers]
 
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Yet I love the intro to AUM with the Vedic verse as an intro, chains and howls in a background!

Actually I can't say the exact version since it was passed to my by a friend I haven't seen for long. There are so many!

Coltrane was so ahead that he was continuosly trying something new to expand his ideas. I agree with you Howard not everything of the latest Coltrane is easy. Very little.

The giant steps LP is a stunning masterpiece, even though McCoy isn't there (but Flanagan and Walton are among the best).
The "giant steps" chord progression is an example of Coltrane's musical genius.
 
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Do you like Kenny Barron? Wanton Spirit is a good one.
 
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I love Kenny Barron, which presently is probably one of the 3 best jazz pianists on the scene:

McCoy Tyner
Kenny Barron
Mulgrew Miller

"Wanton spirit" is great.

One of my favourites is "Sambao", a CD with samba tunes written by Kenny himself. Great Brazilian sound. Classical jazz trio plus congas and guitar. A real master/monster.
 
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Big H:

IF [you find yourself unable to get a good jazz station wherever it is you are (Indonesia?)]
AND [you have a good internet connection]
THEN try
KUVO is our local non-commercial station, which also has audio streaming on its website. It's jazz about 90% of the time, with the rest being blues, Mexican music on Sunday mornings, or the Saturday night R&B show. We like it in part because Denver locals occasionally get some air time, including some of the instructors from my son's high school jazz program.

McCoy: Is Oscar Peterson still "on the scene," or has he gone to the great combo in the sky? Haven't heard of him lately.
 
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Oscar is still around - for sure. He lives in Mississauga Ontario - immediately west of Toronto. Several years ago he had a stroke (perhaps as many as 5 years?) - but has, to the last of my knowledge, been playing again. What a pianist he is/was.
I'd love to hear your station. Sadly, though, we are not on high speed internet here in South Sulawesi (formerly known as Cerebes) - just east of Borneo (now Kalimantan - for the Indoensians at least). As a result, I can't really listen or partake in "live" iternet. My youngest son just graduated from Central Florida State in hotel school and I wanted to see the graduation on the net - but I got a second of music, 2 seconds of silence, etc. and no picture ever came on. Our work internet is fast enough but it is a "no no" to log on to such stations - very high corporate filter rate. So, I suffer . . . but I do have some 200 Jazz CDs here (excluding my 400 or so in Toronto and Indiana) so I have plenty to listen too!
Ciao to all, il tuo amicos. (Did I say it right McCoy??)
 
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Nearly perfect, it would go:
"il tuo amico".

I haven't been hearing from Oscar for a long, long time.
Good pianist but (pardon me, you Canadian gentlemen) a little overrated, an example of very popular musician whose musical quality is lower then some more obscure cats. He was outstanding in the 50's, surely no longer so in the 60's (when Mccoy, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans and others started to crawl out).
Aa an example, anyone of you knows about Barry Harris?
A perfect unknown (by the masses) but considered a real maestro by fellow jazz pianists.
His "live at Maybeck recital" is a masterpiece of solo piano.
 
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Just heard the "lush life" recording from Coltrane.

The title track is absolutely awesome. I think Red Garland was on the piano and his solo with thick voicings was also superb.

 
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There is a new book out "The House That Trane Built", about Impulse Records. Here is a link

I heard the broadcast on Public Radio this morning, and thought of this thread. Can't really discuss it, since my only connection with jazz is that Dizzy Gillespie and I have the same home town - Cheraw, SC.

[idea]
 
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We will have to educate you SRE!! In Bangkok here I have been able to pick up an Encyclopedia of Jazz (published in 2005 so is recent) and also a catalogue of Jazz on CD - both books about $25 US. Looking forward to seeing how many of the CD's I have (or equivalents in vinyls and cassettes) - or, perhaps, don't have. Thanks for the link. I am always amazed at how you have your links at your fingertips. Please advise us how??!!!!!
Ciao.
 
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BigH - This link was easy, I was listening to the radio, the reporter said that there was more at I frequently go there anyway to hear stories on many (non engineering) subjects of interest. You can even listen to exactly what I heard at this link

On other issues, such as here at Eng-Tips, I use a type of "multi-tasking" that I have taught myself to do over many years (listen, read, see, etc. "something" and make mental connections on how it can apply to "something else", more often than not, totally unrelated). This was very useful when make the slow transition from mechanical engineering to civil/structural.

Finding the links... "Goggle", but with a twist - deliberately adding terms, one-at-a-time, and using strategically place quotation marks to "force" goggle to find what I want. As for what terms to search on, that just "happens", my wife says that it is because "You think like a search engine." She would know, having recently retired for the information technology "business".

[idea]
 
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I've gone, at times, when the file is downloaded as pdf to save the URL into word, turn it in to pdf and then place that page in front of (after cropping) so the URL is shown correctly at the start of the article - but it is somewhat time consuming. Sometimes you get lucky and the URL is on the top of the page - but if saved as a file first, it gets messed up when turning into pdf. But hats off to you, my lad, for thinking like a search engine! I'll advise if I need some really detailed searches! LOL.
 
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SRE,
if you're from Dizzy's place, then you should absolutely listen to the most representative of its tunes, which is undoubtedly
"salt peanuts"
 
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That's him. Dizzy at his best. Unflinchingly facetious. And salt peanut's tempo certainly gives you some dizziness. And that's bebop. Complex voicing progressions, upbeat tempos, swing musicians could not adjust to it.

Are you serious about boiled peanuts?
Being a veggie I should know better, but never had a chance to taste them like that, it never occurred to me they could be boiled.
To me, peanuts have always been roasted in the husk, or roasted w/ oil & salted (salt peanuts!)

Interesting book about Trane. Lots of historical recordings by Impulse.
 
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Serious about boiled peanuts? Absolutely! Just last month the Governor signed an act "naming boiled peanuts the official snack food of the state." Here is a newspaper report in the Beaufort Gazette (Beaufort is a small coastal city).

...the article mentions "Cromer peanuts". Cromer is a family name long associated with peanuts in SC - my wife is related to them.

Anyway, a recipe for boiled peanuts is at the end of the article.

Perhaps you can go to "The South Carolina Jazz Festival" in Cheraw on October 20-22... if not, at least you can visit the "Dizzy Gillespie Memorial" on-line - see the link near the bottom of this page

[idea]
 
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