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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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Also, on the topic of Coltrane, my department hosted a scholarly conference on "American music" a few weekends ago, and one of the papers was on "sacred jazz" and talked a lot about Coltrane (primarily A Love Supreme since that's one of his most explicitly religious works, I think he even talks about how religion got him out of addiction in the original liner notes).
 

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Anyone here listened to a John Coltrane album that isn't A Love Supreme? I like his free jazz stuff, like on Interstellar Space.

I've listened to some of Giant Steps. And probably others, but can't remember which ones.

Anyway, my German translation homework is done! Yay!

I only own A Love Supreme, but I've heard a couple of the most acclaimed ones, Giant Steps included. Still haven't heard Ascension.
 

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Anyone here listened to a John Coltrane album that isn't A Love Supreme? I like his free jazz stuff, like on Interstellar Space.

I've listened to some of Giant Steps. And probably others, but can't remember which ones.

Anyway, my German translation homework is done! Yay!

I only own A Love Supreme, but I've heard a couple of the most acclaimed ones, Giant Steps included. Still haven't heard Ascension.

A Love Supreme is the only one I own as well.

But I've been buying music a lot less lately since I discovered the godsend that is Spotify. (Or rather, when it arrived in the U.S. - I knew what Spotify was before it actually was available over here.)
 

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Also, on the topic of Coltrane, my department hosted a scholarly conference on "American music" a few weekends ago, and one of the papers was on "sacred jazz" and talked a lot about Coltrane (primarily A Love Supreme since that's one of his most explicitly religious works, I think he even talks about how religion got him out of addiction in the original liner notes).

I believe there's a church in the US that hails him as a saint, remember reading about that. On Psalm, he's basically reading out a religious poem, but without saying it, he plays it instead.
But I've been buying music a lot less lately since I discovered the godsend that is Spotify. (Or rather, when it arrived in the U.S. - I knew what Spotify was before it actually was available over here.)

I still buy CDs, I'm attached to the physical media :D I have 200 CDs.
 

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Yeah, A Love Supreme is one of those works of music where you can just sit back, close your eyes and absorb it.

In fact, I personally think that's the best way to listen to stuff like that. But I tend to be very snooty about that kind of shit. :p



Speaking of which, I have A Love Supreme on a burned CD my dad made me which also has Ron Carter's Stardust. And I'm frustrated because I can't find a track listing for Stardust that matches the number of tracks this album seems to have. And I'm really anal-retentive about this kind of stuff. :-( IT CAN'T GO INTO ITUNES UNTIL I KNOW ALL THE TRACK NAMES.

(Btw, Ron Carter = jazz bassist. Since "our people" are usually not as well known to normal jazz fans as the horn players, unless their names are Charles Mingus.)
 

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Yeah I figured it would warrant your recommendations by the way you've been talking about it. I like Blue Train quite a bit by the way.

(Btw, Ron Carter = jazz bassist. Since our people are usually not as well known as the horn players, unless their names are Charles Mingus.)

Victor Wooten?
 

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Yeah I figured it would warrant your recommendations by the way you've been talking about it. I like Blue Train quite a bit by the way.

(Btw, Ron Carter = jazz bassist. Since our people are usually not as well known as the horn players, unless their names are Charles Mingus.)

Victor Wooten?

I still don't think he's as well-known as Mingus, especially if you're talking about people who aren't as into newer jazz.

Also I JUST FOUND OUT RON CARTER ALSO PLAYS CELLO. LIFE = MADE.

Anyway I have to go to German now so I will be putting the computer away. Though I will also probably pulling it out a lot during class. Ich bin schlechte Studentin.*

*Google translates this to "I'm a poor student." I'm not really. "Schlechte" also means "bad" in which I mean, as in, I'm naughty. Because I surf the Internet during class.
 

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Yeah, A Love Supreme is one of those works of music where you can just sit back, close your eyes and absorb it.

In fact, I personally think that's the best way to listen to stuff like that. But I tend to be very snooty about that kind of shit. :p



Speaking of which, I have A Love Supreme on a burned CD my dad made me which also has Ron Carter's Stardust. And I'm frustrated because I can't find a track listing for Stardust that matches the number of tracks this album seems to have. And I'm really anal-retentive about this kind of stuff. :-( IT CAN'T GO INTO ITUNES UNTIL I KNOW ALL THE TRACK NAMES.

(Btw, Ron Carter = jazz bassist. Since "our people" are usually not as well known to normal jazz fans as the horn players, unless their names are Charles Mingus.)

You could youtube the track names from Wikipedia and see if they correspond. I'm not the biggest fan of Charles Mingus, or at least his Mingus Ah Um album, I guess it's just not for me. But I do recall loving Black Saint and the Sinner Lady when I heard it.
 

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Yeah I figured it would warrant your recommendations by the way you've been talking about it. I like Blue Train quite a bit by the way.

(Btw, Ron Carter = jazz bassist. Since our people are usually not as well known as the horn players, unless their names are Charles Mingus.)

Victor Wooten?

I still don't think he's as well-known as Mingus, especially if you're talking about people who aren't as into newer jazz.

Also I JUST FOUND OUT RON CARTER ALSO PLAYS CELLO. LIFE = MADE.

Anyway I have to go to German now so I will be putting the computer away. Though I will also probably pulling it out a lot during class. Because I am bad.

Well I've heard of Victor Wooten and not Charles Mingus and most people I know who are into music have heard of Victor Wooten. I know that's a very small sample but it still seems to me like he's pretty well known.

Also you should talk to Andrew, he plays jazz bass.
 
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@TheMissingno.; Which Andrew?

I should mention I haven't done much with my bass since high school, though I've always wanted to. (Weirdly, going into another form of music scholarship actually decreases your performing opportunities sometimes, because the performance majors at your school have preference in ensembles and such. I'm in a community orchestra for cello, but having trouble finding jazz/rock bass opportunities.)
 

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@TheMissingno.; Which Andrew?

I should mention I haven't done much with my bass since high school, though I've always wanted to. (Weirdly, going into another form of music scholarship actually decreases your performing opportunities sometimes, because the performance majors at your school have preference in ensembles and such. I'm in a community orchestra for cello, but having trouble finding jazz/rock bass opportunities.)

Umm, @Sunburn; I think is his name here. We have a band called Soulburn.
 

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Yes it is :p and yes, I am a proud member of Soulburn. Victor Wooten is a demigod and I love playing jazz bass :D the opportunities are few and far between though, I know how it feels :/ usually I'm recruited for bluegrass stuff, which is upright bass and kind of fun, but I enjoy jazz bass more.
 

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Yeah, part of the thing here is I don't own an upright bass. When I was in high school, my school had its own that I borrowed, and I didn't have money for one after laying down tons of moolah for a cello and a bass guitar. And now I'm even more broke.

I suppose BU probably has a way for me to borrow one as well, probably by paying per-semester or something, if I needed it.



Apparently I got something in the German homework that nobody else in the class did.

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It looks like I'm going to Norway in the beginning of summer. My friend asked me if I wanted to go for a kendo tournament and I initially said no because I agreed to do a road trip across country with some other friends, but they seem to be bailing so I asked if he was still looking for a player on his team and he said yes. So I'll be spending a week in Norway doing various activities until the tournament that weekend.
 

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It looks like I'm going to Norway in the beginning of summer. My friend asked me if I wanted to go for a kendo tournament and I initially said no because I agreed to do a road trip across country with some other friends, but they seem to be bailing so I asked if he was still looking for a player on his team and he said yes. So I'll be spending a week in Norway doing various activities until the tournament that weekend.

That sounds pretty fun. I hope you enjoy it! Have you ever been to Europe before?


Also ftr with my previous posts, I actually do really like German and I'm good at it. I'm just easily distractable.
We learned about IRL Hohenheim in our reading last week. That was fun.
 

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Nope, never been to Europe. I'm also not really sure what there is to do in Norway for 5 days. I'm probably going to end up doing a lot of drinking.
 

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Nope, never been to Europe. I'm also not really sure what there is to do in Norway for 5 days. I'm probably going to end up doing a lot of drinking.

Well, where are you going? There's probably a lot to do if you're in Oslo or some other large city.

I haven't been to Norway, but I have been to Sweden. People might not think there's a lot to do in Scandinavia, but there's always some weird quirky shit that you can find. Like an entire museum dedicated entirely to a 17th-century warship that sunk just a few miles outside of Stockholm harbor. (My favorite part of visiting Sweden.)
 

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Norway sounds like a lovely place to visit! It's chock-full of history and culture, I think it'd be quite interesting! :3c I've never left the UK myself, but I'm heading to Germany in June.
 
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