Wikiで学ぶ英語 - Jazz【John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)】

A LOVE SUPREME [Verve]

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• transposition : 移調、(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards

  Besides soloing upon variations of the motif, at one point Coltrane repeats the four notes over and over in different transpositions.

• indelible : 消えない、忘れられない、Unable to be forgotten; memorable

  Rolling Stone called it a "legendary album-long hymn of praise" and stated: "the indelible four-note theme of the first movement, 'Acknowledgement,' is the humble foundation of the suite.

• self-aggrandizing : 自己顕示欲を表す、exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
  aloft : 空高く、上方へ、 In or into a high place; high or higher up

  But Coltrane's majestic, often violent blowing (famously described as 'sheets of sound') is never self-aggrandizing. Aloft with his classic quartet..., Coltrane soars with nothing but gratitude and joy. You can't help but go with him.

• wail : 泣き叫ぶ、To make a long, loud, high-pitched cry, as in grief, sorrow, or fear.

  "Every so often this ceases to be a jazz record and is more avant-garde contemporary classical," remarked Neil Hannon, frontman of The Divine Comedy. "I love the combination of abstract piano that's all sort of 'clang', and weird chords with wailing saxophone over the top."

• lukewarm : 熱のこもってない、無関心な、Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; indifferent:

  In a lukewarm retrospective review, Martin Gayford from The Daily Telegraph argued that it "marked the point at which jazz—for good or ill—ceased for a while to be hip and cool, becoming instead mystical and messianic".

• interminable : 長たらしい、だらだらと続く、Being or seeming to be without an end; endless
  pretentious : うぬぼれた、大げさな、making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious; showy

  If a listener is "in the mood", he wrote, "it's majestic and compelling; if you're not, it's interminable and pretentious."