Non-Classical Music Current Listening

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Procol Harum--Broken Barricades
King Crimson--In The Court Of The Crimson King

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The Jazz Messengers--The Jazz Messengers

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Horace Silver--The Cape Verdean Blues
Horace Silver--Song For My Father

[Herzeleide]

John Coltrane at Temple University, November 11 1966 -



The opening number is a beautiful rendition of Naima; Coltrane's playing is fertile with expressive suggestiveness - very rich with a quick, tremulous, nervous vibrato peculiar to this period, but at the same time abstract. In fact, I would characterise this music as comprising a combination of the stridently earthy and physical with the abstract and otherworldly. Ok, perhaps that's true of all music to some extent but I think it appears in this music in quite an extreme way. Anyway - regarding Naima, it also features a very beautiful piano solo by Alice Coltrane, whose playing sounds refreshingly removed from jazz piano tradition, with long flowing lines that you might find played on a harp, though clearly swung. The next tune, Crescent sounds even more melancholy than the original, aided in this respect by the aforemention aspects of Trane's tone at this point. On this track I personally find Pharoah Sanders' playing a bit too repetitive, but on the next and final tune, Leo, he breaks out of that, so that you're invited into the sonorous specifics of the shrieking sax, if that makes any sense. Sanders' playing is quite violent but forces the listener to listen closely - to confront but also to be disinterested. And then you have Coltrane singing! A few times during Leo - once during Sanders' solo then towards the end of the drum solo - he then plays what he had been singing. It's quite eerie. And you can hear it! -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX5O0lXrOKk

Can't help but hear what was happening in Vietnam behind much of this.

[Herzeleide]

Originally Posted by Herzeleide

On this track [Crescent] I personally find Pharoah Sanders' playing a bit too repetitive

Judgement rescinded! If Sanders seems repetitive it's because much of his playing is encased timbrally in a perfervid expressionism. I needed to pay greater attention.

So saying, at times I dislike the fact that my judgement of music (i.e. its effect on me) is subject to things outside the music.

Anyway, this is totally awesome -



I knew it would be because of A Love Supreme from Antibes. Amazing versions of 'Ascension' and 'Impressions' from Juan Les Pins!

Part 1 of 'Ascension' -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZs4lbo5mQ

(Part 2 is linked there).

[ilovebaroque]

http://youtu.be/QVOSWwzHHU8?hd=1

This is one of a series we're working on. If you have any suggestions for future videos from well-known artists of any genre, please let me know!

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On Spotify:

Chick Corea--Early Days

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On Spotify:

Return To Forever--Romantic Warrior
John Coltrane--Coltrane's Sound

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On Spotify:

Return To Forever--Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy

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On Spotify:

Return To Forever--No Mystery