Jazz composition is not necessarily doine from a score like classical composition is now--but wasn't, necesasrily, a long time ago. However, the works have a structure; their repeated versions can be recognized. They are not just jamming, as you seem to imply. --jks
> >
> > Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:56:49 -0400
> > From: "Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer" <bauerperrin at mindspring.com>
> > Subject: Re: Jazz
> >
> > >Is "The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost" a standard which
>Coltrane
> > >"arranged" for the session?
> > >
> > >If not, I don't understand what you mean by "arrangement."
> > >
> > >If so, who's it by, Cole Porter perhaps?
> >
> > >John Halle
> >
> >
> > All right: "composition." An orginal by Coltrane from "Meditations"
>(1965).
> > With, Pharoah Sanders (tenor sax); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison
> > (bass); Elvin Jones (drums); and Rashied Ali (drums). Specific enough?
> >
> > DP
> >
>
>What's "composed" about it?
>
>John
>
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