Coltrane
"Giant Steps" musician
Coltrane refers to John Coltrane, the American jazz saxophonist and composer whose innovative work in the 1950s and 60s transformed the genre.
His name has become shorthand for virtuosic, spiritually intense jazz: She's studying Coltrane's modal period.
Albums like *A Love Supreme* made Coltrane synonymous with jazz at its most ambitious and transcendent.
Fast, complex jazz style
- modalPertaining to form
- post-bopHybrid sixties jazz style
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- fusionJoining into unity
swing · Giant Steps · A Love Supreme · My Favorite Things · chord changes · standards · ballads · polyrhythm
Landmark spiritual jazz album
- meditationFocused attention practice
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- prayerAddress to deity
cosmic · mysticism · seeking · enlightenment · consciousness · divine · sacred · awakening
Essential meaning or import
- sopranoHighest female voice range
- altoLower female voice
- embouchureWind player's mouth position
- mouthpieceOne who speaks officially
reed · fingering · articulation · vibrato · phrasing · timbre · intonation · pitch
Pictorial screen symbol
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- influentialHaving considerable effect
seminal · virtuoso · genius · master · legend · innovator · trailblazer · immortal
Acting without forethought
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
- extemporizationUnrehearsed spontaneous performance
- riffingImprovising musical phrases
- jammingBlocking or wedging forcefully
cadenza · variation · interplay · ornamentation · motif · counterpoint · chromaticism · modulation
bebop
Fast, complex jazz style
- modalPertaining to form
- post-bopHybrid sixties jazz style
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
fusion · swing · Giant Steps · A Love Supreme · My Favorite Things · chord changes · standards · ballads · polyrhythm · harmony
A Love Supreme
Landmark spiritual jazz album
- meditationFocused attention practice
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
prayer · cosmic · mysticism · seeking · enlightenment · consciousness · divine · sacred · awakening · journey
tenor
Essential meaning or import
- sopranoHighest female voice range
- altoLower female voice
- embouchureWind player's mouth position
mouthpiece · reed · fingering · articulation · vibrato · phrasing · timbre · intonation · pitch · dynamics
icon
Pictorial screen symbol
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
influential · seminal · virtuoso · genius · master · legend · innovator · trailblazer · immortal · timeless
Miles Davis
spontaneity
Acting without forethought
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
- extemporizationUnrehearsed spontaneous performance
- riffingImprovising musical phrases
jamming · cadenza · variation · interplay · ornamentation · motif · counterpoint · chromaticism · modulation · sequencing
ColtraneKenny G
Curly-haired instrumentalist
smooth jazz · easy listening · muzak · elevator music · background music
ColtraneKenny G
Curly-haired instrumentalist
entertainer · crowd-pleaser · Liberace · sellout · Wayne Newton