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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 09:55 AM
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The "A Love Supreme" appreciation thread
Man, I can't wait to meet Trane in heaven!

The first 30 seconds of Acknowledgement are the best musical equivalent to a spring sunrise I've ever heard.

Resolution is my FAVORITE!

I'm going to replay it right now!

Show some love DUers.
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:00 AM
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1. A truly religious experience
A Love Supreme is always inspiring
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:01 AM
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2. I love this one too
Thanks for reminding me that I keep an extra copy in my desk drawer for when I have the urge to hear it.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 03:57 PM
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27. I've listened to it at work more than any other
keeps me from killing people :)
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:01 AM
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3. I have not listened
to it in a long time, years in fact. It was once one of my favorites. I am not a big Jazz fan, I like it live but have little patience with recordings. This one was wonderful.
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Don Claybrook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:06 AM
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4. So strange you should mention that just now
I just put on Stellar Regions, from 1967, then decided to check out DU. And voila! Here you are with a Coltrane thread. Neat.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:09 AM
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5. No such thing as coincidences my friend!
Enjoy
:toast:
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Don Claybrook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:12 AM
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7. I've been on a piano player jag recently
Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and yes, TS Monk.

But I'll stop before I accidentally threadjack a tenor sax with a piano. The weight advantage would be unfair. :)
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:21 AM
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10. Coltrane rocked Tenor, Alto & Soprano - sometimes in the same song
but I appreciate your kindness. We'll talk Monk soon. Plus Tyner was on A Love Supreme, don't forget!

:toast:
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markus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:52 AM
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18. See below re: Monk/Coltrane to get the best of both
Get Your Groove On Here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000Y2F/ref=pd_qpt_gw_1/103-6813381-4107025
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Babel_17 Donating Member (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:09 AM
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6. Listening to it is on my "Things to do" list
But I have listened to The Mahavishnu Orchestra's version featuring frontman/legend John McLaughlin. Extremely spiritual.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:13 AM
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8. Agreed - If you like that check some 70's Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
Agharta
Live/Evil

John McLaughlin plays on those - AWESOME!!
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Donating Member ( posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:20 AM
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9. don't forget Jack Johnson!
:)
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:24 AM
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11. WillPitt and I argued once
Which was the better jazz album, "A Love Supreme" or "Kind Of Blue". We won.
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Donating Member ( posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:29 AM
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12. Is that because
Coltrane's on both of them? & he played one long beautiful song for 40 years?

That's how I'd put it.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:30 AM
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13. I'ts a little unfair since Trane played on Kind of Blue
but we are correct, sir!

Good work

:toast:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:51 AM
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16. you have good taste
it is refreshing to see some good jazz threads!

:hi:
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 09:23 PM
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33. Thanks very much!
:toast:
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markus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:50 AM
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15. Monk / Coltrane on Ruby, My Dear
We all win.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:47 AM
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14. Call me pedestrian but my favorite Coltrane album is My Favorite Things
Also like Live at Birdland and Giantsteps. I've never actually sat and listened to A Love Supreme all the way through. :spank:
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 10:52 AM
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17. Not pedestrian at all!!!!!!!
Favorite things is a CLASSIC!
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:21 AM
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19. Nah. It sucks.
"Feels So Good," now THAT's a jazz classic.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 12:16 PM
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22. You can just see the joy in Chuck's face.
Compare that with Coltrane's "intensity." Sheesh! What a sourpuss!



;)
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 12:19 PM
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23. Chuck sucks!
n/t
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 12:25 PM
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24. Watch your mouth!
Next, you'll probably try to say that Bird could play the sax better than Kenny G. PUH-LEEAZE.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 12:29 PM
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25. Did Bird lay sax tracks down over "What a Wonderful World?"
Do they play "Ko Ko" or "Ornithology" on smooth jazz stations? I think not.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 12:43 PM
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26. But they DO play "Songbird!"
Q.E.D.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:55 AM
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20. I'll say it once again, Trane=God
Have you ever checked out the church devoted to his music? I used to have the site bookmarked.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 11:57 AM
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21. I found it
http://www.saintjohncoltrane.org
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 04:29 PM
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28. "A Love Supreme" itself has a hidden prayer behind it!
A musicologist, going thru the Trane archives (g. knows where) came across a prayer Trane wrote that corresponds syllable-by-syllable/note-by-note to the music. Some hired a singer to sing it, and showed how it was an exact fit.

Incredible feat of devotion (to God and music).

(I'm surprised at Burt Worm. Trane's seriousness is holy itself. I have a beautiful picture of him in my living room with a hand behind his head, thinking . . . Wow. The art of seriousness. .)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 04:41 PM
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30. It were a joke, skip!
I revere Coltrane as much as it's possible for a non-Trane, non-jazz aficionado to revere him. Seriously!
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 04:33 PM
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29. First time I heard it
I was in college hanging out with some friends from the nearby music conservatory, getting ridiculously baked, when someone put it on. My little art-school pea-brain was right well BLOWN, and I went out and bought that and the Greenwich Village live record the next day. What an amazing body of work he produced.
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 04:46 PM
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31. I'm listening to it now. As close to heaven as I'll ever get.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 06:09 PM
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32. OMMMMMMM!!!!!!
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