{"id":1880,"date":"2008-09-23T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/09\/23\/giant-steps\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:29:00","slug":"giant-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/giant-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Coltrane\">John Coltrane&#8217;s<\/a> 82nd birthday.  Here he is playing <em>Naima<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And here is an interview from 1960.  &#8220;The reason I play so many &#8212; maybe it sounds angry, because I&#8217;m trying so many things at one time, you see &#8212; I haven&#8217;t sorted them out.  I have a whole bag of things that I&#8217;m trying to work through and get the one essential, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a computer animation, to the tune of <em>Giant Steps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a robot playing the <em>Giant Steps<\/em> solo.  Not as good as the original.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoltrane.com\/swf\/main.htm\">Coltrane<\/a> died in 1967, at the age of 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been John Coltrane&#8217;s 82nd birthday. Here he is playing Naima. And here is an interview from 1960. &#8220;The reason I play so many &#8212; maybe it sounds angry, because I&#8217;m trying so many things at one time, you see &#8212; I haven&#8217;t sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}