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Impressions (John Coltrane album)

Impressions is a 1963 album of both live and studio recordings by jazz musician John Coltrane.

Impressions (Laura Nyro album)

Impressions is the first compilation retrospective album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro.

It was released in the UK in 1980 and features material from her first four albums for Verve and Columbia Records, completely omitting material after 1970.

The album was released seemingly without Nyro's approval or knowledge, at the time Nyro was in a period of semi-retirement, living with her young son in Danbury, but flopped and Impressions remains out of print, having never been issued on CD. She did not release another album until 1984. Nyro curated her own retrospective album, Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro, shortly before her death in 1997.

Impressions (Angel novel)

Impressions is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Angel. Tagline: "Evil always leaves an impact."

Impressions (instrumental composition)

"Impressions" is a jazz standard composed by John Coltrane. While Coltrane only recorded the composition once in the studio (on June 20, 1962), he recorded it many times live, beginning with his 1961 engagement at the Village Vanguard. These performances produced the third track on the 1963 album of the same name, as well as two further renditions available on The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings. At least a dozen further live performances exist on various live albums up to 1965.

Its chord sequence is identical to that of Miles Davis' " So What" (16 bars of Dm7, 8 bars of Em7, and 8 bars of Dm7). Both songs originate in Ahmad Jamal's 1955 cover of Morton Gould's "Pavanne"

Michael Brecker won the 1996 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for his performance on this song, as recorded for the Grammy-winning jazz album by McCoy Tyner, Infinity.

Impressions (Mike Oldfield album)

Impressions is a mail order compilation album by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield released in 1980 on the Tellydisc label.

The first track, a live recording of Tubular Bells part one is from Oldfield's 1979 live album, Exposed. "I Got Rhythm" differs from the one that appears on Platinum and is unique to this release. According to Phillip Newell this version was recorded live in a Southampton concert, on 26 May 1980, during Oldfield's In Concert 1980 tour. "Vivaldi Concerto In C" was previously unreleased had been considered for inclusion on this album but remained shelved until the November 1993 release of the Elements 4-CD Box set.

Impressions (Mal Waldron album)

Impressions is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in 1959 and released on the New Jazz label.

Impressions (Chris Botti album)

Impressions is the tenth studio album by American jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, which was released on April 17, 2012 through Columbia Records. The album debuted and peaked No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart. On February 10, 2013, the album received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.

Usage examples of "impressions".

Intellectual-Principle, treating them as impressions of reality upon it: we cannot strip it of truth and so make its objects unknowable and non-existent and in the end annul the Intellectual-Principle itself.

I doubled round corners, thrice I crossed the road and came back upon my tracks, and then, as my feet grew hot and dry, the damp impressions began to fade.

Even the impressions he receives from his senses about the outside world become distorted.

My indistinct remembrance prevents my describing all the impressions it made.

There are moments of which no man can recall his mental impressions, moments so acutely horrible that, mercifully, our memory retains nothing of the emotions they occasioned.

Attempt, now, to place all your fingers, at the same time, in the respective impressions as you see them.

The best thing I can do therefore is, I think to give my impressions in my own inexact language, without any attempt to wear a garment of knowledge to which I have no claim.

Of course it is hard for me now to say how much I saw at that time, because my impressions were corrected by subsequent observation.

We have subjected every word to a keen critical scrutiny, and my own brief memories and impressions of lunar things have been of inestimable help in interpreting what would otherwise have been impenetrably dark.

But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind--a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread--until at last they took complete possession of me.

For certainly we cannot think of the Soul as a thing whose nature is just a sum of impressions from outside--as if it, alone, of all that exists, had no native character.

And note that we do not appeal to stored-up impressions to account for memory: we think of the mind awakening its powers in such a way as to possess something not present to it.

If the soul, on abandoning its place in the Supreme, revives its memories of the lower, it must have in some form possessed them even there though the activity of the beings in that realm kept them in abeyance: they could not be in the nature of impressions permanently adopted--a notion which would entail absurdities--but were no more than a potentiality realized after return.

If our perception is to depend upon previous impressions made upon the air, then we have no direct knowledge of the object of vision, but know it only as through an intermediary, in the same way as we are aware of warmth where it is not the distant fire itself that warms us, but the warmed intervening air.

For the most convincing proof that vision does not depend upon the transmission of impressions of any kind made upon the air, we have only to consider that in the darkness of night we can see a fire and the stars and their very shapes.