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Speak No Evil

Speak No Evil

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  • hold over : 持続させる、居残る、To keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time.

    Held over from the previous session is Coltrane's drummer Elvin Jones, but newly arrived from Davis's band were, on piano and bass respectively, Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter.

  • round out : 仕上げる、締めくくる、fill out, finish out

    Rounding out the quintet on trumpet is Freddie Hubbard, an associate of Shorter's from his days as musical director of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

  • macabre : (死を連想させるような)恐ろしい、Upsetting or horrifying by association with death or injury; gruesome

    But the tone of the music is – appropriately for the often-macabre subject matter – rather dark and eerie.

  • jaunty : 陽気な、はつらつとした、Sprightly, cheerful, lively
    wistful : 物欲しそうな、悲しげな

    Its jaunty, wistful melody evokes early Coltrane – especially in its deployment of a single melody line over a shifting harmonic base (vis, "Moment's Notice" on Blue Train).

  • antiseptic : 防腐性の、生気のない,冷たい、lacking spirit or excitement; clinical

    ...David Wilson of the website Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews awards the album three stars out of five and describes it as "more or less standard bop" and "antiseptic next to mid-60s classics like Maiden Voyage or Out To Lunch."