A beautiful piece of music Bernard, Coltrane was a unique stylist. I might argue the point that Charlie Parker was the tops when it came to originality and virtuosity but I have always felt there is plenty of room at the top. One can enjoy all the great players without arguing who was the best. I think Trane was very lucky that there were players who were the perfect complement to his style of playing, they all certainly raised the bar for excellence in music.

Your point on the color of the terrorists is well taken.

Thanks much for posting this and the music video, loved it.

Glad you liked it, Rob. Always so much fun to share musical passion with others.

Bird is my absolute personal fave, so I won't dispute any of what you said.

Miles Davis should get a lot of credit for putting those incredible players together.

Yes, Miles Davis certainly deserves a lot of credit not only for his ability to bring the best out in the members of his band and bringing them together but for helping launch Trane’s career as well. I have heard some criticize Miles Davis claiming he had no technique which is absolutely absurd. I loved his understated style of playing the trumpet but have also heard him play some monster solos that truly smoked. Of course those rhythm sections deserve a lot of credit as well. I was at the Keystone one night and was listening to the rhythm section warm up. It was like listening to a living breathing being, there is nothing quite like it, it sent shivers down my spine.

Sorry RoB Trane was no stylist, he was an innovator. he saw no limitations and with every note he played he broke ground for new directions in jazz.. from the immense force of his power to beautiful subtleties of his tones; That piece yu included alabama, to the studio version of My favorate things to Naima.
Bird was beautiful and different. He knew how to liberate the rythmic and harmonic language of the music, soaring like a bird.
I am always glad to find others who are listening, who got "big ears", as we used to say..
keep Jazz alive...

Miles Davis had no technique. And Monk couldn't find his way around a keyboard... And Muddy Waters, after all, knew only 3 chords. And Howlin' Wolf was just a big mouth. I read somewhere Pavarotti couldn't read music. Oh, and of course, Dizzy's mouth swelled like a balloon because he didn't know how to blow his horn.

There seems to be a pattern.

There's a street legend, though, that Miles and Monk had a major falling out (that's probably true) and when Miles plays Round Midnight there's an audible foul up right in the head of the tune. Legend has it it was intentional. (Not sure I believe that.)

Eddie, what I meant was Trane had developed a unique style. I should be more careful with my phrasing.

Bernard, when people say that kind of thing I think they are just jealous. I hadn’t heard that story about Monk and Miles but it I would find it hard to believe that a foul up would be intentional as well.

"You don't know anything about how music is made. It is much too complicated for you. You dolts know nothing about music, not having been, as I have, to the former Yugoslavia. "

Ah yes, uplifting discussion. (Sarcasm)

I think the reason that Jimmy Garrsison, on stand-up bass, doesn't get the props is a mic-ing/mixing thing. He is working awful hard for the sound he is getting.

I recently purchased a 4 disc collection of John Coltrane's 1961 Village Vanguard performances.While nothing can match the musical brilliance of Serbian hip-hop,this package is one of those so-called 'desert island' discs-probably the single thing (okay,4 things) in my quite extensive collection that I'd bring with me.
As a 'bonus',Eric Dolphy appeared all 4 nights.

Ted,I don't think there's anything particularly mean-spirited or politically-incorrect about suggesting that a poorly-informed,tin-eared,syntactically-challenged,insult-spewing,hubristic asshole is in fact a poorly-informed,tin-eared,syntactically-challenged,insult-spewing,hubristic asshole.
Of course,being an insult-spewing,hubristic asshole,I'm hardly an authority.

Miles once objected to Trane's long, meandering solos. Trane responded, "Man, I don't know how to stop." Miles: "Take the horn outta yer fucking mouth."

So what was this falling-out between Monk and Miles about? Anybody know the details?

Another vote for Serbian hip hop here, but as I read this post on a Sunday morning, the 'trane is just right.

thanks

Mike: I forget the details. There was a period Miles refused to play with Monk accompanying him. To play with Monk was no picnic. Even Coltrane couldn't take him for a while. There are stories of him asking Monk "And right here, harmonically, what exactly is going on" and Monk would reply "Aren't you the great Coltrane? If you're so great, then can't you just figure it out?"

Monk was so quirky and different (his first name?) , there's this great scene caught on video where Monk is between two sets and this manager comes rushing in "Monk, Monk, you're on!" No reply.
"Monk, hurry, they're all waiting." No reply.
"Monk, I swear, move your ass man." No reply.
The manager again "Monk, I'm talking to you. Will you speak to me?" No reply.

The manager then leaves the room slamming the door. Monk turns to someone who's just witnessed the scene and says "What's with that guy? Is he deaf?"

Oh, man I know from Coltrane from I've never seen that clip. Very nice. Thank you.