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

#AmListening #jazz #jazzsaxophone #Coltrane #Ellington
https://youtu.be/9P8LtjUTf1k?si=blTQoDMedI9ROA8p

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

Coltrane's Giant Steps is one of my favorite albums ever, this article talks about the chord substitutions in the progressions. #jazz #coltrane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_changes

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

Now playing Coltrane and Cannonball LP 1965 196kHz    full Analog    

#NowPlaying #Music #Cannonball #Aderly #Jonathan #Coltrane #Jazz #Retro #LegacyMusic #LP #Hz196000

/Blue Train/ on blue #vinyl, 180g.

Anyway, underrated masterpieces:
#music
#coltrane

Alice #Coltrane, Monument Eternal
exhibit Feb 9 – May 4, 2025 at the HammerMuseum in #LosAngeles
https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2025/alice-coltrane-monument-eternal

Hell fuckin yeah

https://seankhanfo.bandcamp.com/album/supreme-love-a-journey-through-coltrane

Ended up getting ‘A Love Supreme’ for my nephew on vinyl for XMas. It’s a 3 record set that comes with a book for him to read about John and thr album.

He is 12 and into #Jazz #Coltrane

Right now, an all #Coltrane concert with Gelin, George, the Nikki Yeoh Trio and the @BBCCO from #London https://buff.ly/4fO50m4 #wch

In 20 minutes, an all #Coltrane concert with Gelin, George, the Nikki Yeoh Trio and the @BBCCO from #London https://buff.ly/4fO50m4 #wch

Today, an all #Coltrane concert with Gelin, George, the Nikki Yeoh Trio and the @BBCCO from #London https://buff.ly/4fO50m4 #wch

I was inspired by a post

Stuck on Rhythm Changes? Here Are 4 Coltrane Concepts That’ll Set You Free

https://www.jazzadvice.com/lessons/how-play-rhythm-changes-like-john-coltrane/

where Eric analysed Coltrane's playing on Oleo with the Miles Davis Quintet.

I started to practice some of the transcibed phrases and I came up with the double bebop scale technique where I use the chromatic runs from both the C and F bebop scales over the rhythm changes A part in Bb.

Thanks Eric.