Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the best documents of Coltrane's extraordinary energy is "The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings," a four-CD box set recently released on his birthday (September 23), 30 years after his unfortunate death. This collection, which includes every recorded performance (three previously unreleased) from Coltrane's live engagement at the famous Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City, is of particularly high quality...
First, a warning: for those not already jazz fans, or even for those who are but are not familiar with Coltrane's music, this collection is not an ideal introduction. Box sets, with their limited focus and substantial price, are meant for dedicated fans. If anything, "Village Vanguard" is even more demanding of its listeners for several reasons: it documents only a fiveday period and represents only nine different compositions (there are multiple versions of most songs) in its four-and-a-half hour span. And because it is a live jazz recording, the musicians take artistic risks and extend...
...Village Vanguard" falls roughly at the midpoint of Coltrane's career, both chronologically and stylistically. He had just changed recording labels and had only recently settled on a brilliant rhythm section featuring pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones. Coltrane's style and musical conception never stopped changing throughout his career, and these recordings reflect a serious departure from the structures and techniques of mainstream jazz of the time. Complex, static song structures were inhibiting what Coltrane wanted to do musically and he began looking towards Eastern ethnic music for influence. Coltrane began to experiment with instrumentation to dramatic effect...
...original design specifications. While it is not sophisticated by U.S. standards, it has made valuable contributions to the body of scientific knowledge. By comparison, America's aerospace program has been historically bloated, redundant and rife with its own spectacular failures, including the Hubble Space Telescope, Apollo 13, failed Vanguard launches and, yes, the unfortunate deaths in the Challenger disaster. I applaud the joint space effort. There is no need for a space race among nations, but there is a need for an international effort to build a path into space that is safe and cost-effective and returns a broad...
...worth noting that even with all the adjustments since the '87 crash, another meltdown is quite possible. And that hasn't been lost on a number of institutions quietly preparing for the worst. Some of the nation's largest mutual-fund companies, like Vanguard and Fidelity, have detailed battle plans should the market fall apart. Brokerage firms seem less frenetic but no less prepared, as is the government. Maybe these parties aren't as sanguine about the markets as they would have us believe...