John Coltrane

[victorogunbusola]

i feel i konw this music, it reminds and awakens me to a time of great wealth

[Modes9]

It's been almost 50 years and everyone who's any good is still trying to sound like this!

[JayIvory87]

@Modes9 may I ask what makes a great sax player? Excuse my ignorance :)

[Modes9]

@JayIvory87 I love the hard, metallic sound, and all of the suspended, quartal, and superimposed pentatonic scale vocabulary Trane and McCoy introduced. Other than the lydian augmented sounds guys like the Brecker Brothers, Dave Liebman, and Ritchie Beirach added in the early 70's, little has changed since the time of Coltrane.

[leftywilbury]

@JayIvory87

first of all, i think, it's a lot about feeling, (the way you can feel the music) then a great player is, like trane is, a musician who played MOST of the times what always seemed to be the perfect chords.

i am not a musician or music student, but that is what i think about coltrane music.

[boxing1000]

@JayIvory87 Its having great sound,melodic understanding,time and phrasing.Technique is overrated in my opinion...

[Bebopopotamus]

@boxing1000 Technique is completely underrated, are you kidding? How are you supposed to play anything without technical ability? It doesn't matter what you hear in your head if you can't get it out.

[boxing1000]

@Bebopopotamus No I am not.You don't need Brecker like chops to be a great player of course you need to have SOME kind of technique to play at all.Get it?

[hithatrollz]

Elvin's stick is missing at the beginning, lol, great drummer tho.

[aaronamccoy]

coltane blue the truth, kenny g is satan

[leftywilbury]

@aaronamccoy

is that rapmusic ?

[uprightbassmatt]

I hear Misty :) but I know that is another song. Outstanding! No words ...

[Jazzman303]

@uprightbassmatt The Tune is called "I want to talk about you" but it has the same changes as "Misty". Theres a video on here that has Roland Kirk doing a medley of both these heads over the same changes.

[leftywilbury]

@uprightbassmatt

this one is: violet for your furs, from his very first lp on prestige, i know cause i have it somewhere.

terrific album, very, very trane and sadly very osbscure.......

[peppersax]

Masterful!!! And what I liked about Coltrane (as great as he was), you can see how HUMBLE he was (unlike many of the musicians today).

[Nabzed]

whaou... coltrane is just one of the greatest masters of the sax and of the music, in any place and any time....

[vince8ravary]

god bless you..

[Zootbruno]

He just lays it out here . What happened after then ? Gee, I mean from Kennedy on to the current 759 billion dollar bad drug deal . Maybe Trane saw the bad train coming and got off the boat but was screaming about it before he left . Boy , the hits keep on coming.Too bad this is unembeddable , another dissapointment after I posted it and found crap instead of this great painting of a time long gone that won't come back,however,the young quartet was refreshing once again .

[nonsnunosbirro]

w il jazz

[JazzmanBerlin]

Fantastic Coltrane, wonderful ballad and his best Quartet.

thank you very much

[Nabzed]

It is always a great moment listening to Coltrane's Quartet....

[saksofonista]

One of my personal Coltranes' best

[dorian411]

THIS IS EXTRAORDINARY!!!

Thanks Alform.

[eggory]

That was interesting

[phishiscool]

the song is "I Want to Talk about You"