John Coltrane, tenor sax McCoy Tyner, piano Jimmy Garrison, bass Elvin Jones, drums 1963
I've said that Trane played Spiritual music. I've said that a lot actually. I don't know that it really gets it though.
Any accomplished improviser is a skilled editor. There isn't just a single musical idea flowing through the mind at a given time, there are thousands. The one that gets the call has to be executed with proficiency in real time. I mean real time. Elvin Jones circular time real time.
How does that work? Nobody knows. Left brain-right brain stuff, channeling a Higher Power, blind luck, practice, knowledge, discipline, a combination of all that and more asides? Nobody really knows and nobody really ever will. Maybe in that way it is Spiritual. But one man's faith in something may be evidence of his lack of faith in something else. Trane did his best playing, his real playing, his cry to the sky playing after he kicked the junk. He credited that to his Faith, an epiphany. He gained Faith. The substances can open a door and shut it too. Most that come out alive have trouble finding the door and when they find it they fumble for they keys in the dark. At least for a while. Not Trane. So, maybe he did have an epiphany. Nobody knows, there is no scientific proof in these matters. There is the musical evidence. Nobody gets by unscathed you know? And neither did Trane, liver cancer at 41. Say what you got to say, that's the real deal. Edit Edit Edit is what they tell you and there's truth in it. You can call it Faith, you can call it Spiritual and that's another form of editing because it opens a door to a broader mystery. Listen.
Betty Blowtorch was spin-off of the neo-quasi-post punk band Butt Trumpet. Lead singer/bass player Bianca Butthole died in a car crash in 2001.
"Hell On Wheels"
Chicks turning the tables and kicking ass for all good truckers hardnosing the cerebral superhighway of the sleepless mind. The two guitar solo sounds like raunchier roadhousyer Skynyrd.
My very special Mother's Day
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I know I haven't been on much at all. Work, family, business all seem to
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[HERE] I’ve been working on a duo thing with my old buddy Bill Dees and we are dipping our toes in the water this weekend with a couple of road gigs.
Friday night in York, Nebraska and Saturday in Pella, Iowa.
Bill is a truly one of a kind and he has been putting in some serious work on this little “project”. I’ve been kind of hush hush about it but, it’s real cool.
I’ll let you how it goes and there will be some canned posts until I get back including a deceptively simple cage match.
Joekid33, Bordeaux, France.