Having Fun with Coltrane

I'm having fun with the song Naima, by John Coltrane on my Bumper
Music Podcast site. I've been exploring what just intonation could do
to the song. The first chord is a Bb minor 7th the an Eb in the base,
then gets more bizarre as it goes on. I thought, what if the Eb were
the root and all the notes overtones of that note, how would the song
progress? There are some strange tensions and relaxations that result.

The examples are just fragments for now, but you can get a hint of
what's going on. See the latest at http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com .

If anyone subscribes to Rhapsody, the pay-for-play-online music site,
you can hear a playlist of 40 versions of the song by various artists
over the years, including the master himself, as a post on 8/30/06.
You need the service to hear anything.

Prent Rodgers

Prent,

Oooooh, you better not mess up "Naima", one of my all-time favorite tunes! :) You mention all those versions, I'm sure there are some good ones. One of the singularly killer musical events of my life was hearing Jack De Johnette do a solo piano version in the middle of one of his concerts. Devastating.

Cheers,
Jon

At 10:37 AM 10/28/2006, you wrote:
>I'm having fun with the song Naima, by John Coltrane on my Bumper
>Music Podcast site. I've been exploring what just intonation could do
>to the song. The first chord is a Bb minor 7th the an Eb in the base,
>then gets more bizarre as it goes on. I thought, what if the Eb were
>the root and all the notes overtones of that note, how would the song
>progress? There are some strange tensions and relaxations that result.
>
>The examples are just fragments for now, but you can get a hint of
>what's going on. See the latest at http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com .
>
>If anyone subscribes to Rhapsody, the pay-for-play-online music site,
>you can hear a playlist of 40 versions of the song by various artists
>over the years, including the master himself, as a post on 8/30/06.
>You need the service to hear anything.
>
>Prent Rodgers

Neat-O!
-C.

>I'm having fun with the song Naima, by John Coltrane on my Bumper
>Music Podcast site. I've been exploring what just intonation could do
>to the song. The first chord is a Bb minor 7th the an Eb in the base,
>then gets more bizarre as it goes on. I thought, what if the Eb were
>the root and all the notes overtones of that note, how would the song
>progress? There are some strange tensions and relaxations that result.
>
>The examples are just fragments for now, but you can get a hint of
>what's going on. See the latest at http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com .
>
>If anyone subscribes to Rhapsody, the pay-for-play-online music site,
>you can hear a playlist of 40 versions of the song by various artists
>over the years, including the master himself, as a post on 8/30/06.
>You need the service to hear anything.
>
>Prent Rodgers

Hi Prent,

Though I love the 'Cracking bass, Gromit' of the finger piano (I
think it is) in the latest version, this one is more pleasing to
me overall

http://ripnread.com/listen/TrumpetSong17-Naima.mp3

In fact, this sounds completely amazing. I wish it were longer.

As always, I had trouble navigating blogspot beyond what's
shown on the front page, so I haven't heard *all* of the trumpet
songs.

-Carl