John Coltrane - Countdown download song

This was recorded only a few years after Charlie Parker's death so Coltrane (just like everybody else) was still reeling from the experience. We used to call this playing 'tempo'...

The name is Shades DuPris, and I play jazz saxophone. I'm 18 years old and better than you.

John Coltrane inventing speed metal.

did homeboy put his apple headphones up to his computer microphone

60 years later and this is still one of the best performances ever. I love that it doesn't really become a "song" until the very end, and then it just ends. Beautiful and intense.

John tried many things when he was composing songs to this album. Every song is different. Different from the "usual" way of playing jazz. I wonder how it felt playing on such innovative record

This is the soundtrack God was listening at the creation fo the universe. Period.

The reason why the bassist doesnt play until the end because if he played one more note the concentration of matter would have become too thick and have caused a rift in the space-time continuum ending all known life as we know it.

I could listen to Paul Chambers all day. So innovative in his bass lines.

Giant steps on steroids! (if you can believe such a thing!)

One could never guess all this comes from two simple ii V I's.

Tommy Flanagan: Jesus Christ I am so glad that Giant Steps is over with!! Next song please!! John Coltrane: This next one is called Countdown. Tommy Flanagan: :-(

90% Intro, 10% Head at the end.

why would you play that, that shit's too hard

is he doing circular breathing or has he transcended breathing altogether ? what a genius

I could listen to that ending all day.. so good

What an astonishing, layered performance; what a lot of music coming in at under 3 minutes. I haven't seen the lead sheet for this piece, but I'm told that the changes represent a 6-tonic system... ...which means it has twice as many tonic-areas as the 3-tonic title cut from this LP, "Giant Steps." Brutal. And Brilliant. (I just noticed: You don't actually hear the melody until THE END.)

Tommy Flanagan: Alright so what’s the tempo for this one? John Coltrane, snorting a metric ton of cocaine: I am speed