Hardbopjazz

Sad news. RIP Ira. He was one of the greats.

Single pedal of a rose. I love that tune.

They are. No need for this one for me after checking.

With 40 minutes of outtakes, I just might buy my third copy of this session. John Coltrane: Giant Steps 60th Anniversary Edition review – more a giant leap in jazz 4 / 5 stars4 out of 5 stars. (Rhino) This celebratory reissue includes outtakes that confirm the original’s brilliance and the sense of a genius in transition Within the same few weeks in the spring of 1959, the great saxophonist and composer John Coltrane astonishingly found the composure to play a key role on one of the most thoughtful and spacious of all jazz albums – Miles Davis’s iconic Kind of Blue – and the virtuosity and fearless insight to record one of the fastest and most intense, his own game-changing Giant Steps. In 1959, Miles was moving toward a meditatively floating and almost chordless music in his search for a new jazz language, while Coltrane’s route was to pack his pieces with so much harmonic movement and warp-speed fast lines that it could seem as if he were trying to outrun his listeners’ aural perceptions and fool them that the hundreds of notes pouring from his horn were really one long seamlessly soulful wail. Giant Steps’ 60th anniversary is celebrated this month by Rhino’s CD, vinyl and download release, including 40 minutes of outtakes, and illuminating liner notes by Coltrane authority Ashley Kahn. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/18/john-coltrane-giant-steps-60th-anniversary-edition-review

Was there really a campaign to stop teens from listening to jazz in the 60's?

He was very active in the jazz world. Many times he would speak before concerts and give his opinion. RIP, Stanley.

Jamal Plays Jamal.

RIP, Reggie.

As a young boy, I had a big crush on her. RIP Diana.

It will be out sometime next year. Sonny has been working on it with with a writer. Aidan Levy is currently writing a biography of Sonny Rollins. Sonny has been involved, but I don't know to what extent.

It will be out sometime next year. Sonny has been working on it with with a writer. Here is an interview just done for his 90th birthday.

Two baseball greats from my childhood dead in the same week. Both Brock and Seaver were two of the best.

An old interview. https://tidal.com/magazine/article/qa-sonny-rollins/1-74370?fbclid=IwAR3J4MuuM2uim82PwWkJXTukuQu_4CjOKbgY95In3dK3NGTe7umZNhc14aA

Happy 90th birthday, Sonny Rollins. You are a true living legend.

I see this stating it’s a hoax. https://en.mediamass.net/people/gary-peacock/deathhoax.html

RIP, Gary. Thanks for the music.

Saxophonist Mark Colby past away today. RIP.

I've seen this before, but without the English subtitles. I like it even more now that I could understand the narrator.

I will play this one today.

True.

Happy 80th birthday. Many more to come.

Bird Lives!

Was it made known what landed Wayne to a wheelchair? Someone told me he had a stroke, but I never could corroborate if that was the cause.