Not everyone transformed [pic a music genre]. John Coltrane did though. And when people said he was too abstract and difficulty to follow he shocked the jazz world in 1961 with an album called My Favorite Things which left people with their jaws agape. Let’s listen to a hybrid of two recent edits– the original, at almost 14 minutes, is too big for YouTube– of the title track. Although it has since been covered by artists as diverse as Kenny Rogers, Sarah Vaughan, Bjork, Barbra Streisand, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Luther Vandross, Andre 3000 (OutKast), Brian Setzer, Tanya Tucker, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Rod Stewart and The Supremes, it was Coltrane who took the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein song from the Broadway hit The Sound of Music and made it his own. This was Trane’s first release on Atlantic and his first with a quartet that included McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Steve Davis.
No Trackbacks To “Late Night Music Club with John Coltrane“
I dig Coltrane. I love A Love Supreme and Ascension. The Village Vanguard Master Takes album is cool, too.
His first Atlantic release was Giant Steps in 1959.
I was gonna contest this but, all I can find is that Dave Brubeck did it.
I was thinkin that Benny Goodman did it long ago, but the song is from ‘65 in the play.
I woulda SWORN it was a few decades older than that!!!
The Trane woiked it. Other’s followed his lead.
Howie’s all over it.
I bow to them both. ;-)
And, I have always dug Santana’s tribute to The Trane.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/reviews/r1102_156.htm
Jan Hammer on DRUMS? *G*
Thass some Love, Devotion, & Surrender.
*G*
Salsa - Orquesta Sabroso “La Pixina” Ay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Coltrane Quintet (Trane, Elvin Jones, Reggie Workman, McCoy Tyner & Eric Dolphy
Impressions
Live, 1961
DailyMotion once again kicks YouTube’s ass.
Andy “George W. Bush has never been elected. The ‘Machine’ took it and gave it to him.” K Jong Il @ 6:
As always. They have entire jazz tv shows from Europe in the 50s and 60s
George Coleman/McCoy Tyner
Blues On The Corner
Suh-WEET! Many moons ago, I played alto sax in school. This reminds me why I chose the instrument. Thanks!
Eric Dolphy
God Bless The Child
Who was it that hipped me to DailyMotion? I’d love to give someone the credit, but it escapes me….
.. just about everyone today is still
trying to get a piece of ‘Trane’s and Mile’s mid-late 60’s
early 70’s bands…. no matter how much it gets reworked,
it’s all tryin’ to get back to those sources…
IMHO
;-)
Count Basie- featuring Lester Young
I’ve Got Rhythm
1938
Sorry that this one cuts off too soon. But you get a good idea of Lester’s abilities here.
Agreed, Big E.
Gimme “Blue Train” over “A Love Supreme” any day. Not that the latter’s shabby, but the former is more…urgent in my ears.
Obligatory(if you’re me):
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross w/Basie & Orchestra, featuring Ocie Smith
Everyday
GNA!
Miles and Coltrane playing a terrific TV version of So What. Everyone cooks:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U4FAKRpUCYY
Andy “George W. Bush has never been elected. The ‘Machine’ took it and gave it to him.” K Jong Il @ 10:
it was me…with this Andy
While listening to Trane’s After The Rain I once experienced the sublime transcendent mystical bliss of spiritual clarity. When the music ended; I was dumped back into my mundane reality.
The album Selflessness which I believe featured the performance of this tune at the Newport Jazz festival in 63 (Coltrane, Tyner, Roy Haynes and Jimmy Garrison on bass maybe?) was definitely one of my favorite things in high school. I would put it on the turntable and be transported by the incandescent soloing and seemingly effortless improvisation. As a bass player, I was fascinated by Garrison’s discipline, his ability to lay an impeccable foundation for each soloist to build upon. The incredible dynamics of Haynes’ playing added immeasurably to the emotional impact of Coltrane and Tyner’s soloing. I think it might have been Santana that said, when asked about the hot guitar players of the 80’s hair bands, “you have to have something to say.” Listening to Coltrane speak to me night after night, to hear McCoy’s insistant echo wrapped in Haynes’ and Garrison’s fluid but unshakable rhythm, I heard everything I needed to know about how and why I wanted to play my instrument. Often, certain music sticks with us the rest of lives because of the context in which we first experienced it. Great music needs no external context. As Howie points out, it transforms its surrounding at the moment of creation. The wonderful thing about it is that transformation never stops, as each new generation of performers and listeners re-discover the source. And for those of us that knew it before, it remains a fountain of youth. I am refreshed once again. Thank you!
Every note in it’s place. Amen.
Dig on Coltrane’s Ole’
Praise musical genius.
a love supreme! a love supreme! a love supreme!
listen to john coltrane! yes!
Coltrane channeled the angels. Thanks for this.
Thanks! Good stuff!
A little Long Island trivia
http://www.thecoltranehome.org/
Underrated and almost forgotten, his EP of ballads with Johnny Hartmen. Album is just called “John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. You put this album on when a lady is present, and that lady is not soon um…let’s just say sufficiently wooed, then my brother, it ain’t happpening.
Hartmen=Hartman…I need more coffee.
Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond…Take Five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOgYw5-pNs
John Coltrane. This is one of so many, many great hits. I once drove from Chicago to Philly listening to nothing but Coltrane. My best road trip ever.
.. there are a number of recorded live, very early ’60’s
Coltrane gigs floating around the cyber ethers…
Hearing ‘Trane’s live gig is the thing, amazing, and powerful.
There is one recording from a small club that used to be in Philly [called
either Peps or the Showboat]…. McCoy is late to the gig so
it’s a trio for about 40 mins …incredible… McCoy gets there and
it’s something to hear….
would have liked to see the the big old recorder whomever
recorded the gig with….. you can hear all the sounds of the club,
it’s too good !
Way late to the thread, but I enjoyed it a lot. Thanx.
the only version of “my favorite things”… all others pale by comparison. I used to end my parties by playing it..when my friends heard it, they would say, uh, oh! gues it’s time to go..