March 23, 2005

Take a Giant Step

Fun visual representation of (an abridged) version of John Coltrane's classic tune, "Giant Steps."

That CD, by the way, contains alternate versions of the originally-released tracks.

Perhaps this is timely: Coltrane also released an album named A Love Supreme, which was explicitly religious, and apparently the religion in question was Islam (I'm not a 'Trane expert, so correct me if I'm wrong here). The now out of print Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide (1979, 1985), edited by John Swenson, gave both albums five stars out of five. Jazz classics both.

Or you could just watch the Michal Levy film again.

(Hat tip: Radley Balko)

Posted by Craig Ceely at March 23, 2005 10:05 PM
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