Apparently, it's a national holiday here in Switzerland today. 'Ascension'. Switzerland has to be the only country that commemorates an avant-garde #jazz album by John #Coltrane. Even kids seem to get involved: They're outside right now, making loads of noise, shrieking & yelling over each other etc
As alumni of the University of Strathclyde, I perform in the #Strathclyde University Big Band.
The SUBB is performing in #Glasgow this week at Avant Garde on King Street. Friday, 16 May @ 20:30. Entry is free, so come out and join us!
Expect interpretations of compositions by Nat #Adderley, John #Coltrane, Count #Basie / Sammy Nestico, Bob #Mintzer, and more! Guest vocalist, Janine Capaldi, will be there too to provide some lovely singing. #jazz #BigBand #music
This track had to be here right from the start. It just doesn't wear out. The world stands still everytime I listen to it.
Here's three more primal words:
Jazz, Coltrane, Ballads
It didn't me took much time to find a best way to start this new Mastodon instance: thejazz.studio
No further words needed than these three:
Coltrane, Naima, Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIrN_7ZT68
listening to an LP that was recorded live on my ninth birthday. i swear i was born ten years too late.
Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.
For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon
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Alice Coltrane - Something About John Coltrane
Right now, #Coltrane's 'Legacy for Orchestra' with Blanchard from #Boston https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/coltranes_legacy_for_orchestra_with_blanchard_from_boston/86419/ #wch
In 25 minutes, #Coltrane's 'Legacy for Orchestra' with Blanchard from #Boston https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/coltranes_legacy_for_orchestra_with_blanchard_from_boston/86419/ #wch
Today, #Coltrane's 'Legacy for Orchestra' with Blanchard from #Boston https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/coltranes_legacy_for_orchestra_with_blanchard_from_boston/86419/ #wch
"Night Has A Thousand Eyes." Seldom do two songs share a title and have absolutely no shared musical content. Love em both. #Pop #Jazz #Coltrane #BobbyVee
Now playing Coltrane and Cannonball 
LP 1965 196kHz 
full Analog 
#NowPlaying #Music #Cannonball #Aderly #Jonathan #Coltrane #Jazz #Retro #LegacyMusic #LP #Hz196000
I've had this as an earworm for the past week and I knew it was Coltrane on sax but couldn't remember the pianist or the name of the track. Maybe time to do an Ellington deep dive so I can recognize his playing.
It'll be easier for me than remembering the names of songs 
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JiP7jKdAhD0&si=-eOu-sFYaYmVwBsu
Portrait de Coltrane, clairement pas au niveau de son incroyable génie, mais disons que c'est un hommage et une occasion d'aller (ré-) écouter Alabama par exemple... le thème a été composé après un attentat qui a coûté la vie à 4 jeunes filles noires. Il reflète l'engagement de Coltrane pour les droits civiques, mais témoigne aussi je trouve d'une forme de spiritualité poignante, comme une prière, bref ça me file les poils à chaque fois.
https://youtu.be/saN1BwlxJxA?si=97yRa5Lu-Nb2vkAG
#jazz #coltrane #alabama #drawing
John Coltrane’s Blue Train album is so great. That is all. #JohnColtrane #BlueTrain #nowplaying #classic #jazz #music #Coltrane #JazzSky 
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