John Coltrane's Tone Circle

Fascinating, well-written piece. Thanks for sharing! I plan to revisit it more closely when I free up (probably while listening to A Love Supreme -- arguably the greatest jazz album of all time).

This is pretty solid, I try to use this method all the time.

In my opinion the underrated "Get Your Greasy Head Off The Sham" by Breastfed Yak is jazz at it's finest.

You meant to say "Kind of Blue", I'm sure.

Else: Deringers at noon. Bring your second.

The Davis / Coltrane collaboration Kind Of Blue significantly influenced Coltrane's later works like the OP's Giant Steps and parent's A Love Supreme.

Of which you're undoubtedly aware; I'm just explaining the inside joke in your second line to others.

P.S. Kind of Blue is also my favorite.

I did qualify it with "arguably". Kind of Blue is, IMHO, the other viable candidate.

Just finished listening to it yesterday! My first time with it, excellent stuff, but not topping Mingus Ah Um! I've been on a Jazz kick since listening to an episode of Kirk Hamilton's Strong Songs podcast about John Williams[1]—which was an excellent listen and I learned tons—that touched on Jazz and Mingus in particular.

1: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s05e05-john-wi...

Without more prominent melody or harmony I could not find what is finer about it than conventional approaches to jazz. Could you please elaborate on what its quality is?

To be honest, I am not a jazz musician or even a jazz fan. When I do record music I have better progress when holding myself to a standard or a set of limitations to work within. It gets the brain going to find new solutions to fit within a self-imposed framework.

My favorite music podcast, You’ll Hear It, uses “is it better than KOB” as one of their album review metrics!

I think you wrote "On The Corner" a bit weird there.

A Love Supreme is a wonderful album, but Ascension and his later avant-garde work marked a new direction in jazz. Listening to Coltrane play his later work, feels to me like he had unshackled himself from the past, from the changes, and was his most pure expression of self.

Excellent point, and with the same number of letters as in “Bitch’s Brew”, give or take some punctuation.

I, unarguably, agree. My all time favorite part is "Psalm". Love the story behind it, too: They had just moved from the city to Long Island, and he said it came fully formed into his mind. He then spent days and days in solitude intensely teasing it out to perfection.

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