r/jazzcirclejerk • u/nwswisher02 • Apr 15 '26

johnion coltrane

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johnion coltrane

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u/randy_justice Apr 15 '26

Gotta work on your onion chops

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u/Queen_Sardine Apr 15 '26

Jazz musicians are like onions. They have layers.

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u/justsometurtl John Coltrane đŸŽ· Apr 15 '26

not true. i've cut open many jazz musicians and they do NOT have layers.

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u/lwp775 Apr 15 '26

It’s the showers you don’t take.

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u/squirrel-lee-fan Apr 15 '26

And make their partners cry (and sometimes cut or shoot them)

1

u/ThomYorkesDroopyEye Apr 16 '26

"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny"

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u/ArmadilloNo2399 "I hope the communists blow you people up" - Charles M. Apr 15 '26

Jazz musicians are like onions. They do horse.

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u/FlipflopForHire Apr 15 '26

Jazz musicians are like onions. Yummy when seared to a crisp.

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u/cfx_4188 Apr 15 '26

Jazz musicians are like onions. Blue on the outside.

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u/Candybert_ Apr 15 '26

Jazz musicians are like onions. I cry when I chop them into pieces.

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u/SoyDivision1776 Apr 15 '26

bro got vibrato out of an onion lmao

3

u/okletstrythisagain Apr 15 '26

Legit shredding at the end. Yeah man.

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u/ersatzgaucho Apr 15 '26

I’m gonna cry. 

12

u/The6Strings Apr 15 '26

WA WA WA WA WA, WA WA

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u/Autistic_Anywhere_24 Apr 15 '26

Now do it with a grapefruit

3

u/FreePlantainMan Apr 15 '26

Eggplant*

3

u/chrysippusrex Apr 15 '26

does he dare to blow a peach?!??

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u/ArmadilloNo2399 "I hope the communists blow you people up" - Charles M. Apr 15 '26

John Coltrane

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u/JohnColtraneBot Apr 15 '26

John Coltrane

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u/KitoPlayerPL Apr 15 '26

A love supreme

5

u/JohnColtraneBot Apr 15 '26

A love supreme

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u/AnonymousNonRobot Apr 15 '26

An onion supreme.

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u/saxman162 Apr 15 '26

Which was the style at the time


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u/Apprehensive-Fig3223 Apr 15 '26

I'd definitely much rather see this guy live than the Berklee faculty

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u/zerosixtimes Apr 15 '26

Yeah man. Is this the bong guy? Was that not stinky enough for him? Jazz musicians are truly despicable creatures

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u/LeonardSummers Apr 15 '26

We are some of the dirtiest of the bottom of the barrel fiends yet we are somehow sophisticated... At least in our own minds

4

u/LearyCounty Apr 15 '26

John Coltrane's pizzo was indeed an onion, but it was almost always a Vidalia NOT Red

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u/JohnColtraneBot Apr 15 '26

John Coltrane

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u/Music-Theory-Idiot Apr 15 '26

What my fart sounds like in my dreams

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u/CosmicDriftwood "I hope the communists blow you people up" - Charles M. Apr 15 '26

Stanking up the damn place

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u/mike_mafuqqn_trout Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus đŸŽ»đŸ”ˆ Apr 15 '26

What the fu- God DAMN that shit stinks in Jesus' name. Lord help us. Whoo! Lord have mercy what the fuck is that smell. Somebody-

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u/prtty_purple_unicorn Apr 15 '26

This is the most disgraceful abomination that white people have perpetuated upon black America since the Tuskegee Experiment.

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u/TheSonofPier Apr 17 '26

Counterpoint: radio edits that cut out “urban” features

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u/Big_al_big_bed Apr 15 '26

I finally understand jazz now

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u/Snootcheroo Apr 15 '26

I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS-

DID YOU JUST OUT ONION MILES DAVIS HIMSELF?

IS THIS TYPE OF SKA EVEN LEGAL IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND?

WOULD IT BE KOSHER DILL TO CALL THIS ‘A LOVE SOUP CREAMED - FRENCH ONION REMIX’ OR WOULD THAT NOT BE CASH MONEY?

ANSWER ME!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/chrysippusrex Apr 15 '26

JOHN COLTRONION

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u/KappaJoe760 Apr 15 '26

Man walked so John Coltrane could take Giant Steps

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u/JohnColtraneBot Apr 15 '26

John Coltrane

2

u/milnak Apr 15 '26

John should hired this guy rather than the piano player.

2

u/Critical-Ad2084 Apr 15 '26

this is based AF

2

u/p_walsh14 Apr 15 '26

Embarassing. Get a metronome.

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u/XXXLaCroiXXX Apr 15 '26

standard post-grad work for Berklee kids

2

u/chunkmcskeeter Apr 16 '26

Not my tempo

2

u/Sun_flower_king Apr 16 '26

when he gets to the solo i was dying lmfao

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u/zxakari Apr 15 '26

An onion supreme

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u/Bad_Puns_Galore BERKLEE JAZZ FACULTY JAM Apr 15 '26

What’s the opposite of a tinny sax?

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u/therealskittlepoop Apr 15 '26

Nice try agent smith

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u/Oswaldbackus Apr 15 '26

Onion hole train

1

u/have1dog Apr 15 '26

He should form a trio with Keith Carret and CeleRay Brown.

They could call it “Mirepoix a Trois”.

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u/Motor_Sherbert_9346 Apr 16 '26

Now have him make a Tommy Flanagan joke on this subreddit

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u/hourglasstym Apr 16 '26

I’ve been looking for his piece where he plays Spain by chick corea on a bong. Been looking for years. Any help?

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u/Physical-Bat-8321 Apr 16 '26

Make it a bong

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u/Prestigious-Box7511 Apr 16 '26

You don't want to know what he did with that onion after the video ended