John Coltrane

stargirl69
stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
edited January 2012 in Other Music
I raked out a few of his albums a month or so ago blew off the dust :oops: and put into my to listen to pile.
Finally got through the pile and he is about all I have been listening to the past week.

Great for just chilling/pottering/reading too.

Any one else appreciative of his smoothness in playing?
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  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Yes! I don't have a lot of his stuff, but I do enjoy listening to him. I particularly like his pairing up with the Thelonius Monk Quartet at Carnegie Hall.
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  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    SD48277 wrote:
    Yes! I don't have a lot of his stuff, but I do enjoy listening to him. I particularly like his pairing up with the Thelonius Monk Quartet at Carnegie Hall.


    Yes I believe he recorded over 100 albums with a range of other artists,I guess most famously with Miles Davis
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  • kjw818
    kjw818 Posts: 96
    stargirl69 wrote:
    Any one else appreciative of his smoothness in playing?


    Yes, enough to name my daughter after one of his songs...''Naima''

    Obviously his stuff with Miles is great, but check out his early 60's releases on Impulse! with his Classic Quartet. McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums....incredible musicians. Here is a list of his best Impulse! releases....

    Coltrane
    Ballads
    Live at the Village Vanguard
    A Love Supreme
    Live at Birdland
    The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    The Trane is awesome. Bought the Heavyweight Champion cd box set before Christmas. It is incredible.

    What I didn't know is he lived right by me (well, before I was born) on Long Island and the house is a National Historic Place. Still haven't checked it out. Not sure if it's open for visitors, or someone owns it and it's just marked and protected.
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  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    kjw818 wrote:
    stargirl69 wrote:
    Any one else appreciative of his smoothness in playing?


    Yes, enough to name my daughter after one of his songs...''Naima''

    Obviously his stuff with Miles is great, but check out his early 60's releases on Impulse! with his Classic Quartet. McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums....incredible musicians. Here is a list of his best Impulse! releases....

    Coltrane
    Ballads
    Live at the Village Vanguard
    A Love Supreme
    Live at Birdland
    The John Coltrane Quartet Plays

    Wonderful name :D

    Yes I have A Love Supreme and Live at Birdland

    Thank you for the other recommendations
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    I LOVE Coltrane

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mszSoTNqH3Y

    :D:D:D
  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    I LOVE Coltrane

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mszSoTNqH3Y

    :D:D:D

    Absolutely beautiful,it has the ability to just wash over me.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,294
    any relation to roscoe p. coltrane ;):lol:
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  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    eeriepadave wrote:
    any relation to roscoe p. coltrane ;):lol:

    That's Co-train!
    :lol:
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Finally having replaced my worn out copy of "A Love Supreme" with an fine quality Impulse repressing, I sat down and listened to the whole thing (I know- why would anyone listen to only part of that album? :P ) and was YET AGAIN blown away by Trane and Company. At one point during the third movement, "Pursuance", I could literally feel to top of my scalp tingling. One of the all time great recordings.
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Looking for a good biography of John Coltrane, I was recently led to the documentary, Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary”, a film by John Scheinfeld.  The DVD showed up in the mail amazingly fast and I watched it earlier today. 
    I had a certain amount of trepidation when I put it on to view it a few hours ago. I thought, "Oh man, will this be like all those Jimi Hendrix documentaries that I get hoping they will do the artist justice, only to be disappointed?"  But, no! This exceeded all my hopes and expectations! What a marvelous work this documentary is. It so very well does wonderful artistic justice to the great artist and human being that John Coltrane was. I've been a Trane fan for decades- ever since the first time I heard A Love Supreme back in the early 70's. Even having heard that and other Coltrane records many times over the years, seeing this film was a revelation. It took me even further into the work and the spirit of one of the greatest musicians of our time.
    This is a "must see" for Coltrane fans!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    ^^^

    Great documentary. It was on Netflix. May still be.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    jerparker20 said:
    ^^^

    Great documentary. It was on Netflix. May still be.

    Cool! 

    I'm still flipped out over this documentary.  So good!  I'm dying to share it with my wife be we had too much going on today.  Maybe tomorrow!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    Jazz is great music to paint to, Jackson Pollock loved Jazz

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