Today's Happiness Experiment Entry

The positive reaction to my unplanned talk on Don't Stop the Music at TV or Not TV at Somerset House

Reading about A Love Supreme in the sunshine

Listening to John Coltrane

A Love Supreme

recorded 9 Dec 1964 - Feb 65 released
New Jersey

• Elvin Jones
• Jimmy Garrison
• McCoy Tyner

the vocal chant "A Love Supreme", sung by Coltrane (accompanying himself via overdubs)
An alternative version of "Acknowledgement" was recorded the next day on December 10. This version, which included tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp and bassist Art Davis, did not feature Coltrane chanting "a love supreme" 
The only live performance of the "Love Supreme" suite was on July 26, 1965 at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France

Played at Gaumont State, Kilburn - Coltrane played there in 1961

1964-04-27, 1964-06-01 recorded Crescent  (1964)

1965-02-18, 1965-05-17 recorded The John Coltrane Quartet Plays  live (1965)

1965-05-26, 1965-06-10 recorded Transition (1970)
1965-06-10, 1965-06-16, 1965-10-14 recorded Kulu Sé Mama (1967)

KIND OF BLUE

recorded New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959 ("All Blues" and "Flamenco Sketches") - released on August 17, 1959

• 1 Miles Davis – trumpet (band leader)
• 2 Julian "Cannonball" Adderley – alto saxophone, except on "Blue in Green"
• 3 John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• 4 Bill Evans – piano (except "Freddie Freeloader")
• Wynton Kelly – piano on "Freddie Freeloader"
• 5 Paul Chambers – double bass
• 6 Jimmy Cobb – drums

Davis had only given the band sketches of scales and melody lines on which to improvise -  Once the musicians were assembled, Davis gave brief instructions for each piece

many scholars and fans believe that Bill Evans wrote part or the whole of "Blue in Green" and "Flamenco Sketches"

Producer Quincy Jones, one of Davis' longtime friends, wrote: "That [Kind of Blue] will always be my music, man. I play Kind of Blue every day—it's my orange juice."

Evans and Chambers played on the sessions for The Blues and the Abstract Truth by Oliver Nelson in 1961

Milestones - Recorded: April 2, 1958 – April 3, 1958
1958 Miles - Recorded: May 26, 1958
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Someday my prince - Recorded: March 7, 1961 – March 21, 1961

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051s0fp

A Love Supreme: 50 Years On

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A Love Supreme - Acknowledgement by John Coltrane

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You've Got to have Freedom - Pharoah Saunders

Image courtesy of Lyn Rodden - www.lynrodden.com

Live life to a different beat - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Roy Ayers' fantastic young drummer - Jazz Cafe for John Grounds' birthday

Seeing Tanya Stone gain after over a decade - a long walk out at South Mimms

Cholla

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Stolen Moments by Oliver Nelson from The Blues and the Abstract Truth

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Cristo Redendor by Donald Byrd

Track of the Day - A Blue Supreme

So What by Miles Davis (from Kind of Blue)

Picture courtesy: www.fractalus.com

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Stolen Moments - Oliver Nelson (from The Blues and the Abstract Truth)

A Numbers Game - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Testing Human Footprint interactive - life in numbers



Finishing a good novel - Restless by William Boyd - partly by the Home Office building whose coloured glass features come into their own in bright sunshine



Watching Jazz Dispute on Germ

Spring has sprung - Recent Happiness Experiment entries

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Unpacking my books in the new room with the balcony open



A haircut Saturday with N - including the usual picnic on the steps of the masonic temple at the end of long acre, playing Guess the (Passerby's) Name



Playing the Top Three game with N in the tube



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Ghaly's goal for Spurs against Chelsea in the FA Cup - football at the Bridge with Stu



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Chat with James Bradburne, Steve Moore and Janey Walker in posh caff in Green Park - above all, the spring sunshine (first no coat day of the year)



Listening to Doug Miller's Desert Island Discs - especially Starless and Bible Black by Stan Tracey Quartet (what a title - Dylan Thomas's?)



Meeting Rebecca Wilson from the Saatchi site/Your Gallery (10 million hits a day!) - Dylan playing in the empty caff (Tupelo Honey, Camden Town - the old Van-Bob axis)