Watch Animated Sheet Music for Miles Davis’ “So What,” Coltrane’s “Large Steps,” and Charlie Parker’s “Affirmation”

Miles Davis’ Sort of Blue modified jazz. It modified music, peri­od. So I take it very seri­ous­ly. However once I see the ani­mat­ed sheet music of the primary lower, “So What,” I can’t assist however consider Charles Schulz’s Peanuts automobile­toons, and their Vince Guaral­di com­po­si­tions. I imply no offense to Miles. His modal jazz swings, and it’s enjoyable, as enjoyable to lis­ten to as it’s to observe in ris­ing and falling arpeg­gios. The YouTube uploader, Dan Cohen, provides us this on his chan­nel Ani­mat­ed Sheet Music, with apolo­gies to Jim­my Cobb for the shortage of drum nota­tion.

Additionally from Cohen’s chan­nel, we have now Char­lie Parker’s music ani­mat­ed. Nev­er one to maintain up together with his admin, Park­er left his property unable to recu­per­ate roy­al­ties from com­po­si­tions like “Con­fir­ma­tion” (above).

Nonethe­much less, each­one is aware of it’s Chook’s tune, and to see it ani­mat­ed above is to see Park­er dance a really dif­fer­ent step than Miles’ post-bop cool, one stuffed with com­plex melod­ic para­graphs as an alternative of chordal phras­es.

And above, we have now John Coltrane’s mas­sive “Large Steps,” with its rapid-fire bursts of quar­ter notes, inter­rupt­ed by half-note asides. Coltrane’s icon­ic 1960 com­po­si­tion dis­performs what Ira Gitler referred to as in a 1958 Down­beat piece, “sheets of sound.” Gitler has mentioned the picture he had in his head was of “bolts of fabric undu­lat­ing as they unfurled,” however he may simply as effectively have considered sheets of rain, so mul­ti­tudi­nous and heavy is Coltrane’s melod­ic assault.

See Cohen’s Ani­mat­ed Sheet Music chan­nel for 2 extra Char­lie Park­er items, “Au Pri­vave” and “Bloom­di­do.”

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