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| Impressions - Jonh Coltrane and Eric Dolphy |
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Impressions is a 1963 album by jazz musician
John Coltrane. Most of the album was recorded
live at the Village Vanguard on November 3,
1961 and released in 1963 on the Impulse!
label. The recording features the "classic
quartet" of John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy
Garrison, and Elvin Jones; they are joined by
Eric Dolphy and Reggie Workman on the live
Vanguard tracks. Dolphy plays a memorable
solo on the long modal workout "India", but
lays out on all but the coda of
"Impressions". Workman is at hand only on
"India", to join Garrison in approximating
the sound of an African drum choir.
Throughout, Tyner's presence is unusually
muted; he takes his only solo on the bonus
track, "Dear Old Stockholm", is barely
audible on the two Village Vanguard tracks,
and lays out entirely on "Up 'Gainst the
Wall". Also, drummer Roy Haynes — as he
sometimes did for Coltrane's group during
this era — replaces Elvin Jones on "After
The Rain" and "Dear Old Stockholm" (which
were each recorded at the same April 1963
studio session). Jones and Garrison are also
uncharacteristically low-key. All told, and
even more so than on his other albums, the
focus on this LP is on Coltrane. The title
track (based to a certain extent on Miles
Davis's "So What") is notable for featuring
nearly fifteen minutes of Coltrane's soloing.
The music reflects Coltrane's evolving
emotional and musical range, where he
explores jazz modality, the music of India,
the blues, and a traditional Swedish folk
song (this last track was not included on the
original 1963 album, but appeared first on a
1970s previously-unissued LP compilation and
is on the current — as of year 2000 — CD
release of Impressions as a bonus song). The
eclecticism is to be expected; the album
amounts ultimately to a compilation of three
years of oddments.
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Affichage : 3830
Durée : 290 s |
| So What - Jonh Coltrane and Miles Davis |
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"So What" is the first track on the 1959
Miles Davis and John Coltrane album Kind of
Blue and is often credited as one of his best
works.
It is one of the most well-known examples of
modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and
consisting of 16 bars of D minor7, followed
by eight bars of Eb minor7 and another eight
of D minor7. This AABA structure puts it in
the format of popular song structure.
The piano and bass introduction for the piece
was written by Gil Evans for Bill Evans and
Paul Chambers on Kind of Blue. An
orchestrated version by Gil Evans of this
introduction is later to be found on a
television broadcast given by Miles' Quintet
(minus Cannonball Adderley who was ill that
day) and the Gil Evans Orchestra; the
orchestra gave the introduction after which
the quintet produced a rendition of the rest
of "So What".
The distinctive voicing employed by Bill
Evans for the chords that interject the head,
from the bottom up three perfect fourths
followed by a major third, has been given the
name "So What chord" by such theorists as
Mark Levine.
While the track is taken at a very moderate
tempo on Kind Of Blue, it is played at an
extremely fast tempo on later live recordings
by the Quintet, such as Four and More.
The same chord structure was later used by
John Coltrane for his standard "Impressions".
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Affichage : 8235
Durée : 503 s |
| Jonh McCain is CRAZY! Watch & Listen to him |
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Jocn McCain acts like a complete jerk during
the ABC debate. Listen as he snidely says
"we're going to miss you tomorrow" near the
end of the clip. He's making fun of Dr. Paul
because he was excluded from a Fox News
debate taking place the following day.
Throughout this portion of the debate, all of
the other candidates made fun of the idea
that the United States should not be invading
other countries and that the US should
impliment a more humble foreign policy.
Huckabee, Romney, and Thompson were nearly as
guilt as Giuliani and McCain. McCain is a
friggin' nut-job and scares the crap out of
me - just watch him in this video.
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Affichage : 154039
Durée : 116 s |
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