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Circle of 5ths Pt. 4: The Liberatory Politics and Philosophy of the Music of John Coltrane
Just an explanation of why I believe that utilizing the Circle of 5ths in jazz in this manner, is rooted in liberatory and anti-colonial political and philosophical theories. I get cut off at the end, but I think y’all get the point.
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Відео

Circle of 5ths Pt. 3 / Whole-Tone, Diminished
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How to derive whole tone and half/whole diminished scales from the circle of 5ths.
Circle of 5th Pt. 2 (Ascending Circle, Pentatonic Scales)
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Getting more in depth with how to create pentatonic scales out of the Circle of 5ths, and how to use the ascending circle, with increasing brightness, particularly over Major chords. Reminder that this comes from Coltrane’s liberatory approach to the reconstruction of jazz, and his connection with the colonized world, and world philosophy and history.
Circle of 5ths / Coltrane / Anti-Colonialism
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A way of looking at the language of 60s Trane and McCoy, from a theoretical, historical, philosophical, and political perspective. An advanced jazz lesson on how to employ the Circle of 5ths in a way that will liberate your playing and your musical consciousness.
"Joe Bloe" - by Lee Dynes
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Lee Dynes - Guitars, Bass Amanda Addleman - Piano Vince DeJesus - Drums - All video editing and mixing done by Lee Dynes - All parts recorded remotely during COVID-19 pandemic - Made with the support of the San Jose Jazz organization. Composed by Lee Dynes, dedicated to Joe Henderson.
Antonio Fuela/Lee Dynes - "Alone Together"
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During the 2020 COVID-19 Quarantine, Antonio Fuela and Lee Dynes remotely produced a duo version of the classic standard "Alone Together". Guitar, Video Editing - Antonio Fuela Guitar - Lee Dynes Recorded April of 2020, San Francisco Bay Area, California
"DobyaDob" - by Sudan Music Ensemble
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Traditional Sudanese Song by Sudan Music Ensemble, live at Oakland Museum of California. Salma Al-Assal - vocals Khalid Elmahi Suliman - Oud, vocals Hafez Bushra - Djembe, vocals Lee Dynes - guitar, vocals
"Alone Together" Duo W/ Tyler Harlow
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Lee Dynes and Tyler Harlow play an introspective version of the classic standard, "Alone Together". Recorded live at Sliver Pizzeria in Berkley, CA on 2/9/20. Lee Dynes - Guitar Tyler Harlow - Bass
Lee Dynes Trio - "Darn That Dream"
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The Lee Dynes Trio plays "Darn That Dream" live at Sliver Pizzeria in Oakland. Featuring Tyler Harlow on bass and Curran Sinha on drums. Lee Dynes - Guitar Tyler Harlow - Bass Curran Sinha - Drums
Lee Dynes Trio - "Cantaloupe Island"
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The Lee Dynes trio plays the Herbie Hancock classic "Cantaloupe Island" live at Sliver Pizzeria in Oakland California. Lee is joined by young bassist Tyler Harlow and Curran Sinha on drums. Lee Dynes - Guitar Tyler Harlow - Bass Curran Sinha - Drums Recorded live in Oakland, CA on 1/10/20
Lee Dynes Quartet, Live in Reggio-Emilia feat. Tiziano Bianchi - "Four"
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The Lee Dynes Quartet performs a rare set of jazz in the small Italian community of Reggio-Emilia, as part of the first ever jazz festival "Masone Summer NIght". Here they play the classic Miles Davis composition "Four" featuring famed Italian trumpeter Tiziano Bianchi. The band boasts Amanda Addleman on piano, Marty Fowler on bass, and Shawn Crowder on drums. Filmed in July of 2019. Video edit...
Lee Dynes Quartet Live in Italy - "Walk Tall"
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The Lee Dynes Quartet performs a set of jazz in Italy, at the first edition of the indie jazz festival in Reggio Emilia called "Masone Summer Night". Featuring: Lee Dynes - Guitar Amanda Addleman - Keys Marty Fowler - Bass Shawn Crowder - Drums
Dynes/Pek/Hodel - Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Pt. 2
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Free improvised creative music from Lee Dynes, Jakob Pek, and Lee Hodel. Recorded Live for Oakland Freedom Jazz Society, at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, CA. Recorded on 11/11/19.
Dynes/Pek/Hodel - Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Pt. 1
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Free improvised creative music from Lee Dynes, Jakob Pek, and Lee Hodel. Recorded Live for Oakland Freedom Jazz Society, at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, CA. Recorded on 11/11/19. Lee Dynes - Guitar/Oud Jakob Pek - Guitar Lee Hodel - Bass
Lee Dynes "World Jazz Trio" Live at Red Poppy - "Alone Together"
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The "World Jazz Trio" fronted by guitarist and oudist Lee Dynes performs the jazz standard "Alone Together" live at Red Poppy Art House. This middle eastern take on the classic jazz standard features a "Rumba" rhythm popular in the Gulf countries, but has origins in Spain, Africa, and Latin America. The trio boasts Matt Buckner on drums, and Lee Hodel on bass. Lee Dynes - Oud Lee Hodel - Bass M...
Lee Dynes World-Jazz Trio - Live at Red Poppy - "Solar Norde Africaine"
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Lee Dynes World-Jazz Trio - Live at Red Poppy - "Solar Norde Africaine"
Amanda Addleman and Lee Dynes Duo - "Lullaby of Birdland"
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Amanda Addleman and Lee Dynes Duo - "Lullaby of Birdland"
Lee Dynes Trio - "Solar"
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Lee Dynes Trio - "Solar"
Lee Dynes Trio - "Cantaloupe Island"
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Lee Dynes Trio - "Cantaloupe Island"
Lee Dynes Trio - "Speak No Evil"
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Lee Dynes Trio - "Speak No Evil"
Sudan Music Ensemble - "Bitfoot" - فرقة السودان الموسيقية - "بيتفووت"
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Sudan Music Ensemble - "Bitfoot" - فرقة السودان الموسيقية - "بيتفووت"
Sudan Music Ensemble - "Ya Yumma" -
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Sudan Music Ensemble - "Ya Yumma" -
Sudan Music Ensemble - "Ya Aynia" - فرقة السودان الموسيقية - "يا عينيا"
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Sudan Music Ensemble - "Ya Aynia" - فرقة السودان الموسيقية - "يا عينيا"
Sudan Music Ensemble - "Ya Gamar" فرقة السودان الموسيقية - "يا قمر"
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Sudan Music Ensemble - "Ya Gamar" فرقة السودان الموسيقية - "يا قمر"
Sudan Music Ensemble - "Al Hajjarok Alayya" فرقة السودان الموسيقية - الحجارق عليا
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Sudan Music Ensemble - "Al Hajjarok Alayya" فرقة السودان الموسيقية - الحجارق عليا
Lee Dynes Trio - "Have You Met Miss Jones"
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Lee Dynes Trio - "Have You Met Miss Jones"
Lee Dynes Trio - "What Is This Thing Called Love"
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Lee Dynes Trio - "What Is This Thing Called Love"
Lee Dynes and Loay Dahbour - "Ana Fe Entazarak/Fog E Nakhal/Taqsim Hijaz"
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Lee Dynes and Loay Dahbour - "Ana Fe Entazarak/Fog E Nakhal/Taqsim Hijaz"
The Lee Dynes Trio - "I Mean You"
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The Lee Dynes Trio - "I Mean You"
Lee Dynes Trio - "Alone Together/Rumba Khaligi"
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Lee Dynes Trio - "Alone Together/Rumba Khaligi"

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @jeancarlosfranco6657
    @jeancarlosfranco6657 2 місяці тому

    hello lee dynes i don't know if you remember me i was your student in 3 or 4 grade

  • @SB-mt2bc
    @SB-mt2bc 3 місяці тому

    Do you feel anything when play this? Do you feel anything when you hear this?

  • @iiXchan
    @iiXchan 9 місяців тому

    9:23 also another way to think of it is that u're sorta just playing segments of two wholetone scales, displaced obv by a semitone lol. - like, segments of two. another cool way to utilise the wholetone scale!!

  • @iiXchan
    @iiXchan 9 місяців тому

    its weird cos i remember as a kid, learning the cycle of 5ths, rather than FOURTHS first, even tho i hear way more abt 4ths in general, esp nowadays

  • @donlennon8513
    @donlennon8513 9 місяців тому

    Awesome discoveries and explainations. Thank you.

  • @dr123hall
    @dr123hall 11 місяців тому

    Super use of Light and Dark as musical description in explaining Coltrane! Influence of philosophy, nature of 5th-4th on Bartok, Revel, “outside the box”. I follow Tory Slusher. Like to see more interactions among organic tone - structure explorers.

  • @isaacbeen2087
    @isaacbeen2087 Рік тому

    This is wonderful stuff! have you every tried reading A Geometry of Music by Dmitri Tymoczko?

  • @wolfgangfuhr3941
    @wolfgangfuhr3941 Рік тому

    Amazing Timing and phrasing with your guitar. Nice mix of tradition and modern playing. I like also the bass: pulse and very melodic solo.. Why is there no actual video of you?

  • @travelingman9763
    @travelingman9763 Рік тому

    Of course technically adept and the Pat Martino might be thinking " do your own thing!"

  • @travelingman9763
    @travelingman9763 Рік тому

    Grant Green , Gb and Pat Martino would be honored!

  • @cml1623
    @cml1623 Рік тому

    Nailed it

  • @Metal-lz8td
    @Metal-lz8td Рік тому

    You wouldn't happen to be jewish would you

  • @ACOMPA
    @ACOMPA Рік тому

    Hi. How to use out scale notes please

  • @ACOMPA
    @ACOMPA Рік тому

    More tuto please ❤

  • @ACOMPA
    @ACOMPA Рік тому

    Slowly please

  • @GuitarJawn
    @GuitarJawn Рік тому

    MIND IS BLOWN, thanks

  • @vladledesma3765
    @vladledesma3765 Рік тому

    Love your concepts 😂

  • @vladledesma3765
    @vladledesma3765 Рік тому

    Love your concepts 😂

  • @j_jones_
    @j_jones_ Рік тому

    This kind of political rhetoric has been exhausted to infinite by now. I’ve heard it in so many ways from so many angles. I enjoy being white and I enjoy the benefits of colonialism. That includes running water and diversity of food, spices and products. Thank colonialism for your guitar and the music it helped facilitate like blues and jazz. Jazz wouldn’t exist without the colonial order to contrast itself to just as light wouldn’t exist without darkness. You are a talented musician and you are good at teaching music but the mixing of leftist political rhetoric is the most typical thing.

    • @cerveshred
      @cerveshred Рік тому

      Most musicians are lefties/woke. Sadly that anti colonialism are Agendas

  • @rcmonson
    @rcmonson Рік тому

    Thank you. I've been looking for how to get that Coltrane sound. Now I've got a starting point to work from. Thank you so much!

  • @rcmonson
    @rcmonson Рік тому

    Thank you.

  • @dangfd551
    @dangfd551 Рік тому

    15:12

  • @charsibaba6960
    @charsibaba6960 Рік тому

    Digging the musical content but I respectfully suggest you drop the politics as there have been many empires in history before the British and American empires and they all did exactly the same things writ large .

  • @mannoplanet
    @mannoplanet Рік тому

    cool. that "someone named Kofsky" is Frank Kofsky who wrote "Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music" and a revised version called "John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960's" either of which you really would find interesting to say the least.

    • @mannoplanet
      @mannoplanet Рік тому

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kofsky

    • @mannoplanet
      @mannoplanet Рік тому

      I see it as the 3rd being the hinge between sad and happy, good and evil and the dichotomy and playing back and forth. (Yin Yang is not good evil moral judgments, BTW) The fifth based as you describe it takes away this duality. No oppressor / oppressed in your model. Whatchathink?

    • @1dynes
      @1dynes Рік тому

      Thanks so much! I DEF would love to read that. Always learning. Take care

    • @1dynes
      @1dynes Рік тому

      @@mannoplanet yes I agree with taking away the “happy/sad” duality, but I think it’s much larger - it’s getting rid of the interval that is out of tune on our western instruments due to our western tuning systems, which creates more freedom across the sonic and expressive spectrum - creating more of a “process” oriented music, rather than a music based around “goals” of “tension/resolution”

  • @jordanflowers5872
    @jordanflowers5872 Рік тому

    this was a banger. I would love to see an episode where you pick out specific Coltrane songs or moments and demonstrate how he is expressing freedom and/or resisting western musical regimes

  • @SanjeevRau
    @SanjeevRau Рік тому

    Never had a guitar teacher who shared my politics. This channel is like micro dosing that. I've marked so many sections of your videos to go back to and I really appreciate the way you explain concepts- thanks for the awesome content

    • @wills_helm
      @wills_helm Рік тому

      took the words right out of my mouth

    • @weftw1se
      @weftw1se Рік тому

      Yeah, this series is a breath of fresh air.

  • @onesyphorus
    @onesyphorus Рік тому

    back with another damn 🔥

  • @siriusra2692
    @siriusra2692 Рік тому

    ..............Great Video........but i think you have to tread carefully.......just because Coltrane went to a Malcolm X speech......or McCoy went to a Black Panther rally.......thats the only angle of thought they were coming from .....how could anyone disagree with Malcolm when 99% of what he was saying could be proven.....same with the Black Panthers.....but i think McCoy and Trane was trying to show that making a gumbo of different musical sounds in one music composition would show people that different musical traditions from different cultures have more things in common than differences .........all serious Composers try to explore new ways of making musical sound......Trane and McCoy were no different in that respect.......they pushed music foward as far as they could....the future generations of Jazz musicians will find their Generational voice to solve the human issues in the decades they are living in......

  • @d.c.i.fraterdzwogchenvovi2031

    wasn't it so that with the Thesaurus there could have been also a way in the direction the same eventually or..?

  • @_whoknows462
    @_whoknows462 Рік тому

    Instant watch the moment it popped up

  • @wellfedstarvingartist
    @wellfedstarvingartist Рік тому

    I think the things I appreciate are -casual language -casual demeanor -simplification of ideas (not over or under) -hitting topics multiple times -playing and talking about what you're playing Idk I just thought I'd let ya know these videos have helped me understand things I've been trying to understand for literally half a decade and I'm very grateful for these.

  • @mysteryloaf
    @mysteryloaf Рік тому

    Love the well-articulated conceptual and cultural considerations. Blew my mind! Here are some thoughts that clattered out afterward: P5s as Chromatic scale. Q - Why P5s instead of chromatic steps? A - Because half-steps are a very weak harmonic relationship, while P5s are the strongest and most peaceful harmonic relationship in western harmony, due to the nature of the overtone series, with P5s being the lowest unique note within that series as you explain. Also P5s also happen to be THE harmonic motion of cadences in western music, which is the structure of "ending" music. Therefore if you shed your relationship with the 3rd to re-orient around the P5, you've lifehacked the mechanic of western harmony that resolves tension and brings overall chord progressions into focus, it and baked that into your new perspective of improvising through lightness, darkness, and back.

  • @markg1051
    @markg1051 Рік тому

    Keep in mind that Ravi Shankar colonized the Brits and rest of the western musical world through the Beatles.😁 Have to say he did a pretty good job of it. Great video though! Love the content. (I know, Beatles aren't Jazz.)

  • @d.c.i.fraterdzwogchenvovi2031

    man you rock!

  • @d.c.i.fraterdzwogchenvovi2031

    what I get from this is that those pentatonic fragments containing notes from the circle of 5ths..has 12 plus 12 possibilitie's how you pot it because you combine two part of the hole tone scale as well so 24 hours and 24 little fragment-scales..

  • @d.c.i.fraterdzwogchenvovi2031

    with this stuff in the end you will make the difference(if not already ) for shure! sort of a distance between amateurish or cliche sound and prof level....

  • @jimdep6542
    @jimdep6542 Рік тому

    Thanks for the video and presentation. Well done ! You mentioned there was music outside coming into your home. It didn't interfere with your video, but what was going on with that ?

    • @1dynes
      @1dynes Рік тому

      Thanks! It was someone playing loud music in their house, having a party or something.

    • @jimdep6542
      @jimdep6542 Рік тому

      @@1dynes I hope it only happens once in a while for your sake.

  • @constantstudies
    @constantstudies Рік тому

    Not sure if you study dialectical materialism or not, but wow it seems up your alley! Very interesting to hear your breakdown.

    • @1dynes
      @1dynes Рік тому

      I Definitely do my man. Hoping to get into some of that stuff as it relates to music, difficult to do however. 🫡

    • @constantstudies
      @constantstudies Рік тому

      @@1dynes 💚

  • @d.c.i.fraterdzwogchenvovi2031

    I think you are totallyt right without the circle of 5ths you can do stuff to but the moment you start using it is more powerfull and binds more together...

  • @MetaphysicalMusician
    @MetaphysicalMusician Рік тому

    To Hip for You Tube🔥😎

  • @BrianBowes
    @BrianBowes Рік тому

    Wow, that's super interesting. As a neophyte I find myself interested, but ignorant about how to integrate this into practice.

  • @youriwander7419
    @youriwander7419 Рік тому

    Nice Anti-White Lesson! Loved it On line PDF or notes would be nice.

    • @charsibaba6960
      @charsibaba6960 Рік тому

      Looks as if he was raised in the SF bay area [wokeistan] so not really his fault hopefully he will learn more about human history going forward .Good musical content though .

  • @todd0000420
    @todd0000420 Рік тому

    fantastic video thank you for the information

  • @joelroberts1581
    @joelroberts1581 Рік тому

    I’ve read about this type of harmonic exploration as a possible basis for the music of Bartok. Interestingly, he was deeply informed about the traditional music of a range of cultures. There’s a few books and articles by Elliott Antokoletz that explore these ideas.

    • @1dynes
      @1dynes Рік тому

      Exactly! Was planning on making a video addressing that in connection to this

  • @ThomasHope73
    @ThomasHope73 Рік тому

    I get where you’re coming from, and think it’s fair. Some of the kneejerk comments here are defensive because they can’t hear words like colonialism in discourse without hearing it as an accusation. Yes, we can clearly see/hear music with a different relationship to fourths/fifths has been more common in other parts of the world, and yes, we can clearly see/hear that “western” music has been superimposed on most cultures too, and Yes, stripping back that strong tertian influence and rediscovering the value of the fourths/fifths does allow us a greater perspective of music instead of just assuming there is/was always the classical ( = White-European) way of doing things. Nothing to get upset about. 👍

  • @Hild1
    @Hild1 Рік тому

    That simply sounds like crap. It's not even musical, it's merely a degenerate waste of time and energy.

  • @sashanicodemus4212
    @sashanicodemus4212 Рік тому

    I found it excellent, clear and thorough, rarely achieved, well done!

  • @rockstarjazzcat
    @rockstarjazzcat Рік тому

    👍🏻

  • @mannoplanet
    @mannoplanet Рік тому

    Wow, the first half was pretty interesting - the second half quite fascinating. The third is all about the minor major tension. Never thought why and how the Tyner Coltrane came up with the 4th and 5th based. I just saw it as "modal" but you expanded my view.

  • @billwilkie6211
    @billwilkie6211 Рік тому

    Is the basic theme of these vids to derive the entirety of modern music from a system based on fifths? Whereby the 5th is important not as a dominant (to resolve), but as the first note in the overtone series?

    • @1dynes
      @1dynes Рік тому

      Yes

    • @joelroberts1581
      @joelroberts1581 Рік тому

      If you explore Berg, Bartok, Stravinsky and others, it’s possible to see that they were exploring the same path of harmonic thinking. Check out the writings of George Perle.