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Coltrane's Giant Steps as an "a la"-- wild.
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:04 pm
by niallyboy
Regarding the Dispatch #D170418JI request for ORIGINAL JAZZ STANDARDS-Style INSTRUMENTALS, it asks to avoid submitting anything that’s too avant-garde or experimental. Although it's fairly standard fare nowadays, it was quite experimental back in the day of its release. That said, I wouldn't think that a music supe would want something quite as notey as John Coltrane's solo on Giant Steps!
Cheers, Y'all--
Niall
Re: Coltrane's Giant Steps as an "a la"-- wild.
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 2:22 pm
by waveheavy
Yeah, I thought the same kind of thing. Similar thing with the Kind of Blue album too, it was definitely not mainstream for that era.
niallyboy wrote:Regarding the Dispatch #D170418JI request for ORIGINAL JAZZ STANDARDS-Style INSTRUMENTALS, it asks to avoid submitting anything that’s too avant-garde or experimental. Although it's fairly standard fare nowadays, it was quite experimental back in the day of its release. That said, I wouldn't think that a music supe would want something quite as notey as John Coltrane's solo on Giant Steps!
Cheers, Y'all--
Niall
Re: Coltrane's Giant Steps as an "a la"-- wild.
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:44 pm
by funsongs
Yeah - so... just don't sound like you tried to copy him, or rip him off!!
Good luck with that.
Re: Coltrane's Giant Steps as an "a la"-- wild.
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 8:55 pm
by waveheavy
I don't think most of us here could do a righteous rip-off of Coltrane or Miles Davis.
funsongs wrote:Yeah - so... just don't sound like you tried to copy him, or rip him off!!
Good luck with that.
Re: Coltrane's Giant Steps as an "a la"-- wild.
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 8:59 am
by funsongs
waveheavy wrote:I don't think most of us here could do a righteous rip-off of Coltrane or Miles Davis.
funsongs wrote:Yeah - so... just don't sound like you tried to copy him, or rip him off!!
Good luck with that.
... precisely the point.
Re: Coltrane's Giant Steps as an "a la"-- wild.
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 10:37 am
by andygabrys
But funny enough something like Pat Methenys downtempo bossa nova version of giant steps might get forwarded. Lol