The most feared song in jazz, explained

I highly recommend this Vox explainer on John Coltrane's "Giant Steps", for anyone interested in learning about the math behind one of Jazz' greatest innovations. ▶ this video

in “Jazz Is Freedom” · View on HN

If you don’t have the time (or the musical background) for the full article, this short YouTube video touches on some of the same ideas in a much more condensed and accessible version: ▶ this video

in “John Coltrane's Tone Circle” · View on HN

Nice site but we're at the point in "Show an In Depth Thing on Hacker News" where circles like these need to be presented with a live GUI that includes sound and colors as you spin the circles around to play different chords. towards my craving for instant gratification with sound and lights I found a well produced video by Vox on the subject: ▶ this video

in “John Coltrane's Tone Circle” · View on HN

If you're looking for a comprehensible to mortals explanation of the genius that can be found in Jazz, watch this explainer on Coltrane's Giant Steps. ▶ this video

in “Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue” · View on HN

I keep a Google Document of these to share just in case people ask about my YouTube interests. I Actually Watched All of Them I have actually watched ALL of the videos on these channels and I don’t even feel bad about it :-) I actually like new videos from some of the ones below (like NativLang, for example) but they maybe don’t hold up in the early videos. - Space Time: PBS Physics, sooo good -- [link] -- Great first video: [link] - Lindsay Ellis: Really, really intelligent video essays about film and culture -- [link] -- Great First Video: [link] - Periodic Videos: Chemistry, including a video for every element -- [link] -- Great first video (obviously): [link] Other Math and Science - 3Blue1Brown: Amazing math visualizations -- [link] -- Great first video, how e^pi*i works: [link] - NumberPhile: Fun math videos -- [link] -- Great first video: [link] - PBS Eons: Biology! -- [link] -- Great first video: [link] - PBS Infinite Series: Math math math, really really hard math -- [link] -- Great first video: [link] - SciShow: Science! More poppy but fun -- [link] -- Silly first show: [link] -- Actual physics: [link] - VSauce: Science-y? -- [link] -- Great first video: [link] - Practical Engineering: -- [link] -- Great first video: [link] Other Humanities - Alliterative: Connections via language -- [link] -- Great first video about gin and gimlets: [link] - Bon Appetit: Such fun food stuff! -- Gourmet Makes: [link] -- It’s Alive: [link] - Masaman: Genetics and human migration (and

in “Ask HN: What YouTube channels do you subscribe to?” · View on HN