Re: [tuning] Coltrane: Re: uncommon practices [non-Western progs]

Jacky Ligon wrote:
> Dear Kraig,
>
> Hello!
>
> Yes, and this is most beautifully demonstrated on "Interstellar
> Space"; one of my all time favorite Coltrane albums - where the piano
> is nowhere to be found. Sometimes I love to put this on and play it
> really loud just to bathe in the wonderful microtonal inflections and
> multiphonics. Also, let's not forget Ornette and quite a bit of
> Albert Ayler too, where there is rarely a piano being used. But hey -
> I must admit here too that I really love McCoy Tyner on any album, he
> just offers a wonderful tempered contrast that allows Coltrane's
> exotic inflections to be most profoundly perceived.

Too bad he didn't do an album of sax, drums and
tambura to hold the drone. Maybe toss in a retuned piano too?

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David,

Yeah, unfortunately this combination didn't get explored in his
lifetime. I do have an album with his wife Alice and Pharoah Sanders
(forgive if spelled incorrectly), in which they do use a tampura
throughout - and as you know, Sanders has lots of Coltranisms in his
playing - but the piano is of course 12tET. This is a very beautiful
album approximately named "Journey to Satchenanda". But then you do
have the album "OM" with the master himself - don't think there was
tampura though.

Jacky

--- In tuning@egroups.com, David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:
>
> Jacky Ligon wrote:
> > Dear Kraig,
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Yes, and this is most beautifully demonstrated on "Interstellar
> > Space"; one of my all time favorite Coltrane albums - where the
piano
> > is nowhere to be found. Sometimes I love to put this on and play
it
> > really loud just to bathe in the wonderful microtonal inflections
and
> > multiphonics. Also, let's not forget Ornette and quite a bit of
> > Albert Ayler too, where there is rarely a piano being used. But
hey -
> > I must admit here too that I really love McCoy Tyner on any
album, he
> > just offers a wonderful tempered contrast that allows Coltrane's
> > exotic inflections to be most profoundly perceived.
>
> Too bad he didn't do an album of sax, drums and
> tambura to hold the drone. Maybe toss in a retuned piano too?
>
>
>
> --
> * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
> * 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
> * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm

Jacky Ligon wrote:

> David,
>
> Yeah, unfortunately this combination didn't get explored in his
> lifetime. I do have an album with his wife Alice and Pharoah Sanders
> (forgive if spelled incorrectly), in which they do use a tampura
> throughout - and as you know, Sanders has lots of Coltranisms in his
> playing - but the piano is of course 12tET. This is a very beautiful
> album approximately named "Journey to Satchenanda". But then you do
> have the album "OM" with the master himself - don't think there was
> tampura though.

Oh I'm a big Alice Coltrane fan (I love her harp and sting
arrangements) and of course Pharoah too.
The big Estatic Jazz/Spirituality vibe is fine by me.

nada bhrama,
db

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* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
* 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm