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thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

spenno wrote:

And if you dug those, don't waste any time getting onto this:

trying this on for size right now

washing machine · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:00 am

I'm not the guy to ask. I love that Coltrane record, btw.

Go with Miles Davis's Milestones, or if you are feeling really wild, Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Also, I can't recommend Mingus Ah Um enough.

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

it looks like money jungle, ah um, and the black saint and the sinner lady will consume much of November's aural experience

washing machine · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:12 am

In my limited experience, I always find myself going back to Charles Mingus.

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

i don't think i'm a big band guy. i think i like textual virtuosity and movement and compositional fluidity. this mingus is pretty good.

washing machine · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:29 am

Better git it in your soul, thodoks.

spenno · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:06 am

thodoks wrote:

spenno wrote:

And if you dug those, don't waste any time getting onto this:

trying this on for size right now

Love so much it hurts.

spenno · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:08 am

Kevin Davis · **Joined:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:37 am **Posts:** 3819

thodoks wrote:

i don't think i'm a big band guy. i think i like textual virtuosity and movement and compositional fluidity. this mingus is pretty good.

I prefer small group jazz, too, but there are exceptions. Mingus has always been one of those guys on the periphery of my listening, rather than at the core of it, but he's made some marvelous music.

"Original Faubus Fables"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtwxJJkMUF8

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

thodoks wrote:

spenno wrote:

And if you dug those, don't waste any time getting onto this:

trying this on for size right now

really enjoying this...like it more than ah um

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

caught some of a documentary on thelonious monk on youtube earlier today...what a bizarrely fascinating human being

Orpheus · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:41 am

Black Saint is my favorite jazz album and one of the crowning achievements of modern music up until this point.

Kevin Davis · **Joined:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:37 am **Posts:** 3819

Some of the best liner notes of all-time, too.

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

Kevin Davis wrote:

Some of the best liner notes of all-time, too.

go on...

Orpheus · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:51 am

thodoks wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:

Some of the best liner notes of all-time, too.

go on...

They were written by his psychiatrist, which is fitting since the album is basically beautiful insanity in musical form.

Kevin Davis · **Joined:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:37 am **Posts:** 3819

http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/The_Black_Saint.html

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

that's actually kind of fascinating

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

god i love the sensuousness of this piece

Orpheus · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:19 am

We're using that as one of pre-show pieces for my play, love it.

Kevin Davis · **Joined:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:37 am **Posts:** 3819

thodoks wrote:

god i love the sensuousness of this piece

Yeah, that's a marvel, generally regarded as one of Coltrane's very best ballad performances.

Another one of my favorites, from a year later (Coltrane moved insanely fast in those days):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2tpX6Z-QA

I was hoping that YouTube had a good clip of "My Favorite Things" from Newport '63, too, but the only one I found is split into two parts. Oh well--here's the first one. In my opinion, this is one of the boiling points of Coltrane's career--and his crowning achievement on soprano sax:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTAwmvZQ ... 3288BA0DAA

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