On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 4:34:24 PM UTC-5, Mark Eisenman wrote:

in article wsboc.33322$TT.2...@news-server.bigpond.net.au, Michael West at mbw...@remove.bigpond.com wrote on 5/11/04 5:20 PM:

Mark Eisenman wrote:

I'd LOVE to know if he heard or knew the verse to "Till The
Clouds Roll By". Maybe someone knows this.

I'd say there's no reason to think he didn't know
Jerome Kern's works pretty thoroughly. We know he
was a voracious explorer of all sorts of things.

I wonder. Many jazz players would know the body of the tune (32 bars) and never have an occasion to learn or play the verse. The verses are way more obscure. Of course it wouldn't surprise me if Coltrane knew the verse, him being such a studious musician, but one can hardly think of any tunes (other than Lush Life, ) where he played the verse of the tune in advance of the body of the tune.
Well, we'll probably never know.

Mark
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Damn this an old ass conversation

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