Tommy Flanagan - Willow Weep For Me

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[Macc]

luvverly.

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currently on my stereo:

john coltrane - giant steps

personnel
john coltrane, tenor sax
tommy flanagan, piano
paul chambers, bass
art taylor, drums

currently on my stereo:

john coltrane - giant steps

personnel
john coltrane, tenor sax
tommy flanagan, piano
paul chambers, bass
art taylor, drums

although flanagan on giant steps (the track).

i can't imagine the force of realizing what was expected of him in the moments before that take......brutal.

i would shit my pants i think.

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Tommy Flanagan's relatively spare solo and the way it uses space as part of its structure is an effective contrast to Coltrane's intensely crowded choruses.

Tommy Flanagan's relatively spare solo and the way it uses space as part of its structure is an effective contrast to Coltrane's intensely crowded choruses.

i don't buy it.

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I've got an actual interview with Tommy Flanagan talking about that exact take I have listened to this interview a berzillion times.

His words were somethig to this effect (fairly close but a little paraphrased);

'John sent me this sheet, and it was a chord progression, but the chords were all out of order. He sure played them in order hahaha, but they weren't in the usual order.'

'Anyway, so we get to the date... and I never realised that... that the tempo was going to be as fast as it was. I did what I could to keep my head above water hahahaha'

He knew full well - and you can hear it - that he fumbled his way round that tune. I love it, it's great . You can actually hear someone as great as Tommy Flanagan being put through a proper learning experience, cos at that time he just couldn't keep up with this new new shit.

That don't mean Tommy (yeah first name terms ) couldn't play - he had just never played that kind of thing before. I don't think you can listen to anything he did before or after that and say he couldn't play all kinds of changes. Tommy's a badarse but sweetly lyrical player. It's often like dinner jazz for hardcore boppers, or hardcore bop for dinner jazzers, or something.


I absolutely love Tommy Flanagan.

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mr p.c. is the best track

this is a ridiculous album. Countdown Mr P.C Giant Steps


Naima

excuse me. never heard "willow weep for me". hopefully it will happen some day soon.

got lost in the thread jack. oops.

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Mr Prizm - you need Jazz Poet by Tommy Flanagan

Kenny Washington is ridiculous on that album.

mr p.c. is the best track

kicks in hard after naima

Mr Prizm - you need Jazz Poet by Tommy Flanagan

Kenny Washington is ridiculous on that album.

Good looking out Macc. Thank you.

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excuse me. never heard "willow weep for me". hopefully it will happen some day soon.

got lost in the thread jack. oops.

it's a jazz standard
Ann Rommel I think
or something like that
can't check right now

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[Macc]

Now it is in my head