The Coltrane Project - FREE DOWNLOAD! by St Paul Beats

The Coltrane Project,  is an instrumental album that unites Jazz of the 60’s and 70’s with Hip-Hop. Inspired by John Coltrane, his wife Alice, Herbie Hancock, Nina Simone and Gil Scott-Heron, the album is a dedication to inspirational Jazz and Soul music of those 2 decades.  The project samples heavily, the music of these artists and a few others, while focusing on weaving and layering original drum beats and synth sounds around the samples.  

The Coltrane Project took roughly 4-1/2 years to finish, and another 2 years of just listening to it before I was convinced that it was done. I started it back in 2000, when I was transitioning from VA to Philly.  I started the project, unofficially, in VA. I say unofficially because I wasn't really trying to put out an album at the time. I was just finding simple loops to experiment with.

The whole concept started coming together in Northern VA.  I was staying @ P-Ray’s Crib. That’s when I started digging for samples. I remember listening to the Coltrane Quartet, and was mimicking Elvin Jones’ african influenced rhythms so I could get a feel for how he was rocking it.

The process wasn't easy. It’s one thing to sample a loop, lock in a tempo, put a beat over it, and sync your drums to the loop. That was the easy part. The difficult thing was making it interesting; since it was an instrumental album, it had to be like a jazz record. It had to have changes that seemed human. So with the advice of my big Bro, my ears, the LP’s that my Aunt Karen gave me, and a little help from DJ’s Pete Rock, Krush &amp; Shadow, I started to “officially” develop many arrangements, that I’d eventually mold in to a final product.The Coltrane Project Download Link: <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/p618y3">http://www.sendspace.com/file/p618y3</a>|

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Paul "St. Paul" Dunnaville

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Contains tracks

• Intro by St Paul Beats
• Wonderful by St Paul Beats
• Alabama by St Paul Beats
• Peace by St Paul Beats
• 1 4 4 9 12 12 1 by St Paul Beats