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Coltrane. ... Again and again ...

I've always loved this tune but never learned it because I thought it was so difficult, especially after hearing so many gorgeous versions by Bill Evans. It's not only about playing the chords, but moreover about CONNECTING them and phrasing the melody; always a tremendous challenge on the vibes! So, I started working on it about a month ago, never satisfied with the way I was playing it. (I'm still not, by the way!)
So, here's a work in progress. Comments from the community are welcome!

Peter Weniger and I did a reading of the piece, originally for solo vibraphone. Basically Peter plays the melody and I try to leave out certain phrases that were written in the solo version to avoid too much information. This varies from the written solo because we deviate from the written out solo and improvise a solo together. It's not perfect, which I kind of like but I dig the feel.

This is an arrangement of Peace with the melody in the bass. It works surprisingly well and opens up some interesting possibilities for the harmony.

I did this for my student Dan. We wanted to play very inside over the Tune Quasimodo which is a contrafact for Embraceable You.

Everybody should download this and put your choruses on and post it.

So here's the deal:

I'm always trying to find ways for people to learn stuff. Handing someone all the information works, however, I think giving some and making someone look and search is the best way to learn.

With this pdf, I have my voicings I play with the melody. I left the melody out. Your job is to figure the phrasing of the melody with these chords. Some of the chords have the melody note in the chord, a couple don't.

I believe if you know the melody well and you study these simple voicings you will get something out of this.

I've been up in the mountains this week. Brought my gear up. Lots of time to think and practice. Here is a stream of consciousness about the tune Peace.

Do you guys get stuff out of posts like these? This is pretty advanced stuff I think and you do have to know the tune well to follow me. But this is how me and my buddies teach each other stuff, we play stuff and talk about it. I do this on this tune, he does this over here, copped this off a record of Chick playing this over this tune, and on.