{"id":50,"date":"2008-06-10T00:23:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T04:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/2008\/06\/10\/psalms-133\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T23:19:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T03:19:35","slug":"psalms-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/2008\/06\/10\/psalms-133\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalms 13:3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider and answer me, O LORD my God;
\nEnlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death<\/em><\/p>\n

A friend once told me that Kind Of Blue<\/em><\/a> is everyone’s first jazz album. I don’t think it was even one of my first ten. My first was Time Out<\/em><\/a> (better with time, I’ve found, as I shelved at first listen & now I can’t get enough of it), & my second would become one of the most arrestingly beautiful pieces of music I’d ever heard.<\/p>\n

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme<\/strong> (1965)<\/p>\n

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There are things about this album that drive me wild — make me lose my mind, in ways you wouldn’t fully grasp unless you’ve heard it (again & again & again & again…). It was recorded in one day. It is a four-part suite tied together with amazing congruity. It’s a jazz album…but it has vocals! (Imagine it!) It contains coded prayer (something that I still don’t understand fully, but I believe it’s better that way anyway). It’s freakin’ John Coltrane right after he made bop records & right before he made free jazz records. I used to have a CD player in my shower (don’t ask me how Americans think that things like this are a good idea, but they do, & they are), & this album was a favorite of mine to wash myself to. TMI, you may say? Nay! Who doesn’t wash their bodies to Coltrane these days?<\/p>\n

I’ve been sitting here after work each night for the past few days listening to A Love Supreme<\/em> trying to think of what I could possibly write that could express how emotionally appealing this album is for the listener. It’s poemusic (get it?) penned for no other reason but for redemption & spiritual guidance, & somehow this makes its way through every single note very loud & very clear. A quartet where each note from each instrument is perfectly twanged, tapped, or blown, & for every far-out or straight-forward album that Coltrane released before or after this doesn’t come close to that. Hardly any jazz album does (I would argue that Black Saint<\/em><\/a> & On the Corner<\/em><\/a> do as well, though the latter relies on loop machines so maybe that doesn’t count? On a sidenote, please buy On the Corner<\/em> right now<\/a>. Amazon.com is open 24\/7, people).<\/p>\n

See? I really have nothing to say about this album, & that saddens me in a certain way. This album holds a bigger place in my heart that probably any other jazz album does, & there’s no way to describe what it does for the active listener than to just sit someone down & play it for them. If music is your thing, then get saved.<\/p>\n

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This actually seems kind of cheesy at first, but it does a pretty good job of overlaying music & text. Or just minimize the window & crank the volume. I support either one — Part IV, Psalm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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