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  • When Miles complained to Coltrane that his solos went one too long, Coltrane replied he just didn't know when it was best to stop? Miles said ''when you take the fucking horn out of your mouth'' I always chuckle wondering if this story was true.

  • I think second song of this album it´s the best I have ever listened in jazz......

  • @nicdreic *internet brofist* my favourite too xd

  • Oh, man. This is powerful. I would LOVE to have been present for this!

  • @laxratbra Maybe I missed something...Coltrane Killed your grandfather?

  • total genius, all need to be said! : )

  • OMG!! This is my personal MANTRA.

  • There are no words for Coltrane!

  • thank you guru john coltrane. jai sri ram!

  • Words can't describe this. I have "A Love Supreme" & it never fails to blow me away. Just thinkin...he was 40 when he died. Oh, what could've been.

  • When I first played "Resolution" (the end piece), it blew my mind. I was about 16 or 17 and I just couldn't believe that someone could play the sax like that. Awesome then, now and forever!!

  • BEST jazz recording ever made, seriously stated, and that's saying a LOT.

    Go Elvin, go Everyone -- Mc Coy Jimmy, Everyone-- and especially John

  • What's the story behind this piece - not just this performance, bu the song...

  • creation

  • Fantastic playing great fora Sunday afternoon. My kind of church music.

  • Love Supreme mixed with Resolution.

  • to hear a live recording of the best jazz recording ever made is heaven

  • hardest thing to do is to quit listening to Coltrane's music....

  • This is defenitely good jazz homez!!!.....

  • Deities Do walk the earth...and Coltrane was one, practice can get you but so far, the rest is a mystery divine in nature

  • @huaitribe Perhaps Coltrane was divinely inspired ---- to practice as much as he did. Coltrane was a man, and a devoted one at that.

  • The best vibe ever put to vinyl

  • WOoooWWOOWW!!!

    

  • Classic ... 

  • E' nella mia personale "hall of fame" ed è in buona compagnia...

  • He is God.

    :O

  • Wonderfull Genius! thank you for post the víd!

    A big hug from bsas

    Bkd

  • 'Trane.....nuff said!

  • I researched all of his discographies at the time and could find no reference to this recording. Of course, the internet produced clips such as these from the very recording! It is one of the most prized albums I have ever owned. I had a friend play the melody at 1:16 at my wedding when we walked down the aisle!

  • I believe this entire performance was released a couple of years ago. Funny story. In 1994 I had just gotten into John Coltrane's music and was reading alot about A Love Supreme. I told my girlfriend at the time that I would like a copy for Christmas. She went to the local record store and ordered it. What she received was a bootleg recording of this performance. I eventually heard the studio version and realised something strange was afoot. (cont)

  • said goodbye to Trane at Jacobson's in Huntington Station and I still live in the area. Trane's nearby house is being renovated in his honor. this is back when god's walked the earth

  • Too bad the clip is so short! I love how he comes into Acknowledgement. Usually there is some kind of countdown or maybe a double foot stamp to start the band. In this clip he just starts while Jimmy is still playing some last solo notes to A Love Supreme. This writing seems to maybe be an aspect of the concept developed by Coltrane at the time. There is no starting of the band -- instead, they are almost caught off guard and fall right into it.

  • He's checking the time at 1:13. It must have been time to blow something hip...

  • THANKS A LOT FOR THIS GREAT VIDEO!!!

  • If you mention "John Coltrane" to a random sample of folks on the street, many will have at least heard the name. Repeat with McCoy Tyner, for example, and the results would be dramatically different. What an incredible career McCoy has gone on to have.

  • great music and musician !!bravo

  • you cares about your age you butt-holes

     what do you want to be fetus and be a fan of Jazz?

  • @PhillipThunderGrunge  "what do you want to be a fetus and be a fan of jazz" lol thats great, thank you for saying that!

  • Hello Coltrane's fans, take a look on my John Coltrane's discography review and leave me comments. Cheers.

  • MORAISITO - MUSICA - O FUGITIVO - the best!

  • ohh so badass!!!

  • Holy shit. He's awesome.

  • A thousand times ... THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!

  • This whole album is EPIC!

  • I adore Coltrane

  • about 45 yo

  • is that the recording in antibes ?

  • i think older ppl have to be less critical to younger people who listen to this, going through these videos on youtube i just see older ppl judge younger ppl all the time, its not our fault we were not born in this time. im 19 and i listen to alot of metalcore music and i love jazz, i started listenin to jazz and blues in high school because i had a great music teacher and she opened my eyes to all different kinds of music and taught us alot about them. anyways i love Coltrane! hes amazing!! :D

  • @joshdurdle123 You are 100% correct. You can't love what you really have not been introduced to. Matter fact I tend to be more critical of artist than anything else because they are in/ are the music world. This is their lives and careers. They should know the history of the greats and where all this great music came from and make strong efforts to try and replicate it instead of making a lot of this bubble gum crap they put out in music today.

  • @mrhoffame Read below.

  • @joshdurdle123

    The point is that no one cares when you were born. You aren't somehow special for liking this stuff, as so many teenagers -- more or less -- are bragging about. If you like it, awesome, it's amazing stuff.

  • @utubegod35 I don't think you are "special" for liking it, but I do think it is special to get the chance to hear it, understand, and like it. Now one could say this about a billion different things, books, adventures, or whatever other passion a person might have. There are a infinite number of special things on this Earth and John Coltranes Love Supreme is one of them. That's all I was trying to say. Thanks for the reply by the way.

  • What a lot of young people miss is Cotrane was forging new territory not only musically, but socially. Before the early 1960's, black entertainers played the "slap happy negro", mugging for the camera and making wide eyed open mouth expressions. It was expected by white producers and pushed onto the public as "this makes for happy black folks". Nothing could have been farther from the truth. Coltrane and others like him were fighting for their civil rights and proving themselves very worthy.

  • a love supreme is my favourite album ever, and seeing Mister Coltrane playing it is so rare. Thanks for this short video

  • This footage HAS survived. Per Ashley Khan's book about "A Love Supreme", the video and audio reels of the complete performance are archived in the French TV archives. And the audio portion is included on the Deluxe CD edition of "A Love Supreme". You can find longer video performance clips elsewhere on Youtube.

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  • @jfunkfinger69 well then I guess I just don't really like this style of playing then. I prefer more structured jazz.

  • The ultimate jazz composition SO SO GOOD

  • don't really like free form jazz myself

  • @kraxyjuce he wrote the track and is playing it live so its not really freeform, and this is proper jazz i love it !!

  • i got this concert on cd thinking it was the studio version but it dosnt matter since this the best piece of jazz ive heard.

  • This is great footage,thank you very much for posting this video. It ook me 25 jears to understad the music John Coltrane.

  • sweet as ever ♥ but for the record I dont know what to believe.

    ps. that does not mean I dont trust you, it just means I dont know which part to trust more.

  • This band playing this tune is as perfect as Jazz gets.

  • YES! He played Resolution!

  • Para la versión original, de 1964, Coltrane no quiso comentarios: sólo un poema y un texto del mismo músico. Pero para estas imágenes de un concierto en Antibes, menos de dos minuto, si podemos decir algo: la intensidad de la experiencia religiosa de Coltrane llevada a la música. La honestidad cabal de sus convicciones. Gary Vila Ortiz.. Rosario. Argentrina. Gracias por ofrecernos algo que parece poco es tanto.

  • Unreachable Trane.

    Is it true that he performed it in its entirety only in Antibes 1965... and never again?

  • Besides Antibes there's at least one more performance I have on record. Unfortunately there's no location given, only "recorded in concert in Europe 1965".

  • @Bonedalas

    Really? And you own this record?

    Wow, you're a lucky guy!

    won't you share this record with us here on YouTube? :-)

  • A love supreme, a love supreme, alove supreme,...

  • Ah Resolution at the end is it?, what a tune! Coltrane really is epic.

  • As a lifetime lover of jazz, I can merely say even bad jazz (?) is lightyears better than the best of everything else. Hell,there IS nothing else!

  • whats up in your brain

  • @crimenotgood : Something is VERY wrong here. Jazz is my life and I worship at the feet of Coltrane, Davis, actually all. I'm concerned because someone with the screen name of Mrbooger33333 and Mrtruimphchopper. Please notice he/it simply transposed the I and U in my name. I've attempted to notify Google but to no effect.The comment I allegedly posted has been removed and I don't recall my exact words.Please tell me so that this unfortunate issue can be resolved.Thank you very much in advance!

  • @Mrtriumphchopper Astrotype is sadly deleting a lot of our comments and insights even though we know the performers of this music a lot better than he does. These are some of reasons we do not seem to bridge the generational gap to bring new fans to this genre because of this extremely biased nature of his. As a black American I am highly offended that he professes to love the music and performers but not the opinions of the community this music sprang from....

  • Yeah, to bad we didn't go that way.

  • Trane was a genius, planned and cerebral but at the same time free like fire.

  • Towards the end of this clip, Trane breaks into "Transition". When I first heard this song (I was about 17 yrs old), it blew me away!!! After some 45 years or so, that song is still unreachable for most, if not all....tenor sax players! Please upload the rest of this masterpiece.

  • You mean "Resolution."

  • My Bad! It's from the album Transition.

  • wrong again sir. this is part of both the first and second movements of A Love Supreme (Acknowledgement and Resolution), one of the greatest and most important albums in history. You might want to check up on your music history.

  • GFY! TRANSLATION: GO FUCK YOURSELF!

  • haha whoaa man! chill out a little bit. its just a correction. go listen to some music or something. jesus.

  • FAIL! Get up on your jazz, buddy...

    It's from "A Love Supreme", obviously.

  • Geez!! A guy makes a mistake and you want to crucify him. GFY!

  • Yes.

  • where the hell is the rest.

  • We should be thankful that a Coltrane once walked the earth.

  • @mysticjaz Fuck you my grandfather was murdered by that two timing fiddeling bends

  • WTF?:-DD

  • Just "rediscovered" this album in my collection. Sweet, sweet music.

  • :kneels down;;

  • As John Maclaughlin says Coltrane was the one to bring spirituality to western music which until then was only a part of Indian music. Coltrane turned out to be a great influence in Johns career with Mahavishnu and later Shakti.

  • and where is spirituality gone these days?

  • in my flower pot.

  • (bows down)

  • same! hi five for young jazz appreciaters.

    JAZZ IS COOL AND FROODY.

    IF YOU DISAGREE, YOU ARE NOT COOL AND FROODY.

  • @bria129312 good for you , keep the music alive.

  • @bria129312 Me too ;D

  • @bria129312

    i hear you on that. im 18 and when i was 16 was listening to all this stuff. keep listening

  • @bria129312 you're awesome!!!

  • @bria129312 Finally, a 16 year-old that appreciates excellent music! Jazz is excellent, I've been a jazz drummer since I was 6!!!

  • xDDDDDDDDDD brave idea of what music is XDDDDDD gotta grow a lot still

  • @bria129312 thats good man but there is more than what ur eyes can see evrything is music life is music

  • @bria129312

    I'm assuming English is a second language?

  • @bria129312 Brave idea of what music is--that's very beautifully put

  • if you listen 80 years a go, tango, jazz & samba (today bossa nova are very close. how beautiful is this music! the curious is tango has a black source too (in uruguay

  • Coltrane is one of the greats. Yes, there is Charlie Parker and Miles Davis and Louie but Coltrane's music was somewaht rare. It grabbed your ear. And yes he had a drug problem, but many artists have issues (e.g. - emotioanl imbalences, diseases both mental and physical). I guess angst inspires some.

    The nice thing is htat his music is available. Not true to artists who died before 1920.

  • Coltrane was a great jazz horn player. Of course there was Charlie Parker and Louie and some others but Coltrane has a unique style that grabs your ear. Yes...he had drug problems ...but many people have problems in life...failed marriages, diseases (mental, physical, spiritual) and what not. He must have had some aspect of his soul that was tortured, and in a way, that has been inspiration for some expressive artists. Angst.

    The nice thing is that his music is available.

  • omg... beautiful!

  • this is two songs actually, called "Acknowledgement" and "Resolutions" both on the record "A Love Supreme"

  • Help Me! I Love Colrtane and I Love " A Love Supreme" ;)

  • If you play sax and start studying Coltrane's recorded music (with a passion) you get an insight into his musical development. It's fascinating - he was inspired with great musical ideas, and he must have been extremely disciplined to integrate them into improvisation. For example, his melodic ideas are very original for the time (McCoy tyner was on to it too), and his incredible use of alternate fingerings - it takes me hours on end of listening to him slowed down to emulate him correctly.

  • ...Coltrane´s lsd-eating times.Uh oh & by the way Charlie Mingus was also very fond of acid..Great musicians

  • you're close but the fact is that coltrane a love supreme as a celebration of his coming clean..it was like a repentance.

  • man, you're so miserable..

  • ...just love this...!!

    why these kind of artists do not exist anymore?!

  • They do and have existed after Trane. Michael Brecker is a great example of where the tenor sax was taken artistically and musically after Trane. Brecker is gone now (far too soon) but like Trane, his music and impact will live forever.

  • music you take your hat off to

  • what,this isn't real jazz?

  • miles and coltrane are real jazz, they just have different styles and instruments...

  • wtf and what the hell is real jazz to you? let me guess, kenny g?

  • are you implying that they're not real jazz? If Miles Davis and John Coltrane are not jazz artists, then practically nobody is. They just happen to be the most famous.

  • in jazz, most famous does mean one of the best very often, it actually makes sense when you think about it

  • yep, but Louis Armstrong too. Don't forget about him.

  • haha wow, you're so clueless.

  • You're not gonna find any MUSIC more real than Miles and Trane

  • shedding?

  • It's a muso's term for going by yourself a practicing for long periods.

  • which he did alot. like alot alot

  • bangin

  • the part at 1:16 sounds a little similar to Nardis

  • I friend once told me "no one ever played like Coltrane on A Love Supreme" I completely agree with him, even though I am more into hard-rock music and Jimi Hendrix

  • Jimi knew about Coltrane cause of Jimi's friendship with Miles. He once called Mitch Mitchell "my Elvin Jones" and some Coltrane-like playing shows up every now and then in his playing. I know where you're coming from, man. My two favorite types of music are jazz and classic rock.

  • trane was just a man. he had faults and can be criticized. but until you or I pick up the horn and turn the world upside down, nobody got shit to say. sssh. nothing. I remember that room in southern Vermont 35 years ago only because I heard that first note of Resolution. His legacy is sacred, it is magic, and if you/I like it or not means nothing in the presence of creative genius. This is not ripples on a stream, this is a tsunami.

  • Where else I can find Coltrane playing the Resolution?

    And really, why the rest of the video not survived if it not a secret?

  • Thanks!

    I so want to see the full Resolution!

  • wow man, gotta find the rest of that concert.. always wanted to see a video of that . beautiful song

  • nonsense

  • Dude kicked all that shit. At this point in Coltrane's life, his only drug was God.  God and SHEDDING.

  • Coltrane was great, but his "sonic waves" messing with magnetic tape? This type of thinking does his true genius no favors.

  • what are you talking about?

  • rip

    the greatest musician to ever live

  • I remember when I first heard this song it was on one of Spike Lee`s movies .I am not sure which one ,but I fall in love with John`s Coltrane`s music a long time ago .Words cannot describe to what my ears feel when I set and relax to his music.

  • the song appeared in "Mo better Blues" the wedding scene

  • why did this concert not survived on video????

  • ha exelsa lo mejor de coltrane se dise ke para mi lo es toda su musika bien jotamenes

  • theres so much footage of coltranes later years thats not on youtube.. He was so deep in those days that the sonic waves would mess with the magnetic tapes that cameras used and so alot of the footage is useless .. Trane was on THAT level that was on another plane. Hew talked of finding frequencys on his sax that would make it rain. deep!!!!

  • Many said Coltrane, lacked soul, i gotta disagree, big time.

  • many people, told me, that sometimes i, use too many commas, but i told them, no, i dont, they disagree,d big time,

  • Coltrane lacks soul?!! This would have to be predicated on a very idiosyncratic definition of the word "soul".

    This like saying Mozart's compositions are muddle-headed, disorderly, and confused.

  • biggest blue balls ever....

  • Great posting. Sadly, and less than 2 years after this was taped he would be dead. All those years of drinking and heavy drug use would finally catch up with him

  • This song makes my prostate brittle.

  • It is really cool to see a piece of history like this, but I always wonder how it would actually feel to be there, and live the moment. How cool would that really be? I honestly think every sax player should hear the whole composition of this song just so they know how powerful music really is and this is a perfect example of a musician expressing his life through the horn, simply amazing.

  • It's like comparing apples to grapes.

  • To erebuswong, I do understand you want to honour Coltrane, but please do not call Beethoven a schoolboy composer. Listen to his piano sonatas or his string quartets. This music is so complex. It needs time and effort to absorb and to experience the beauty of it but once absorbed, you will enjoy it just as much as Coltrane or perhaps...:-)

  • To Erebuswong. Of course you want to praise Coltrane, I understand, but I have to disagree with you calling Beethoven a schoolboy composer. He made great music. Listen to his piano sonatas of his string quartets for example. It takes time and effort to like this complex music, but once you absorbed it mentally, it is great. Perhaps you like it even better than Coltrane :-)

  • Respect to your opinons Pere but don`t you think that your second post here sort of covered a lot of the same ground as the first? We got you the first time.

  • Oustanding, please post the rest, 'A love supreme' is my treasure island album, spiritually mind blowing...

  • this song is about God did u know that? :) do your research... mr. coltrane is the man!

  • God!!! I love Coltrane and especially A Love Supreme. Gonna have to play it sometime.

  • I want to see the whole thing so bad!!

  • dios vendiga a este hombre!!!!

  • a love supreme.. a love supreme... a love supreme... a love supreme...

  • Did anyone noticed Trane looking at his watch before he starts playing again?

  • Did anyone notice Trane looking at his watch before he starts 'Resolution'?

  • is it possible to get the whole thing somewhere?

  • I've got the audio of this performance on a CD. It's unbelievable. I would kill to see more of this video!

  • If only.. there was more! Man, what I would do to see a complete live recording of A Love Supreme.

  • yes great wonderful & thank you. s the complete performance from 1965 available for viewing here- the abrupt cut off is leaving me between breaths . . . thanks again for this part!. The complete inspiration of: John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones is only availablethrough such clips and vinyl recordings and their reissue on cd. This msic is for the live performance but whatever we can get we will accept graciously, with reverence.

  • Thank you. You and Nina are my life line. Thank you.