Coltrane_lives
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher/Musician |
| Location | Ville de Sticks, Near Kansas City, United States |
| Introduction | Jazz musician; teacher; restorer of vintage drums, specializing in Gretsch and Slingerland; Ebay and antique enthusiast. |
| Interests | Laughter...and a lot of it. Wit. The universe and its inhabitants; music and making it; writing; travel; hiking; philosophy; charring meat; linguistics; theatre; superb wine; pina coladas and walks in the rain (no really!). |
| Favorite Movies | French and Italian films; movies with happy endings...too much sorrow in this world to pay to be reminded about it. |
| Favorite Music | Blue Train (John Coltrane), Kind of Blue/Sketches of Spain(Miles Davis), Take Five, Time Out, Time Further Out(Brubeck), anything by Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Bill Evans Trio, Chick Corea, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Canonball Adderly, Weather Report, RTF, Freddy Hubbard, Jimi Hendrix, Yes, ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, Queen, Rush, Led Zep, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Louis Armstrong, Sinatra, Mel Torme, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Ella, Edith Piaf, Django, Chick Webb, Monk, Birkin, Eric Vincent; classical German dudes; classic R&B dudes too...anything that grabs my body and soul. |
| Favorite Books | To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sun Also Rises, Mark Twain's works, The Brothers Karamasov by Dostoevsky (anything he's written actually), Works of William Faulkner, N. Scott Momaday, Albert Camus, Cather, Franz Kafka, Tolkien, Voltaire, EM Forster, S Maugham, F Scott Fitzgerald, Anais Nin, the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Paul Auster, any biography (I love biographies about musicians/artists), historical treaties, constitutional law, Aristotelian ethics (in small doses please), existential works (from Kierkegaard to present...no joke, love em), any book that is original and thought-provoking. No vampires please! If I need a scare, I read HP Lovecraft. |
"Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe....I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician's is through his music." ~John Coltrane