John Coltrane, in "Naima", Live Concert, 1965.

[Freddythemonk]

I SO FUCKING LOVE YOU MASTER JOHN...

[CanvasLife]

beautiful music

[Juupp]

Super!!! I think they're all taking some candy........oh yeah they did.

But that's jazz...isn't it?

Shine on

[tophatconfederacy]

Elvin Jones is literally steaming.

[tzlive7]

@tophatconfederacy That's because it's hard work inventing the hip-hop beat.

[rubster1975]

So true. This music symbolises life itself...relentless, filled with equal amounts of joy and sorrow..but the passion prevails.

[etanielyehuda]

McCoy Tyner is other(great)world! He and the piano are one!

[danillys]

le parole non servono

[wazzappa11]

Its McCoy Tyner

[bkjay08]

In my opinion McCoy Tyner is one of the most underrated pianists in Jazz history.......his performance here and on My favorite things is classic!

[wazzappa11]

I dont think he is underrated - he is most appreciated! Its just that Coltrane's shadow is huge!

[bkjay08]

Good point.....I just feel that way because recently I hear alot more about other pianists from that age like Joe Sample or Herbie Hancock.

[wazzappa11]

For me McCoy is a jazz-giant and cannot be compared with those guys!

[samadjhi]

@bkjay08 I hear you but underrated! But all those guys are underrated when you consider the fact that we are talking world class. This thing isn't for everyone. Sometimes a prophet is a stranger in his own country. Look at this performance and only 4500 hits

[chemiah]

You speak the truth, and yet aren't all prophets despised in their own country?

[HippieDrummer06]

@bkjay08 and afro blue!

[orav15]

who's the pianist

[DiamondSoul]

Wow, fantastic.

[nedboysf]

Does anyone know exactly where and when this was filmed?

[bry3921]

there

[yugyhs]

Thank God i like jazz...

[belisarinho]

meraviglioso!!

[pierluigivillaclub]

fantastico!!!

[flowsage]

nothing comes close...

[fantasma22]

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­h!!! jejeje Groso!!!

[lambastedpolemic]

it does not get better

[suburbandreams]

"O Quarteto"!!!!!Indescritível!!!

[flowsage]

powerful

[haagsegestoorde]

cancer is a disease

[thenickmeister129]

absolute legend!

[fagners]

God!

[santosesouza]

Eu Adoro!!! John Willian Coltrane é incomparavel

[CamTheCat]

Untouchable.

[suicidesamurai01]

i liekit =]

[flowsage]

beautiful

[bry3921]

what more can you ask from musicians?

[devi2012]

THANKS LEA!everyday john can save a life with his music...and that will be forever

[JLCDexter]

Thank you ver very muuch for posting this,

this song, is one of the things in life where you can see that life is great and we can live and die i a world where we are what we are, an music is our life... our dream ... till death fall us apart. thank you again

[coolymac]

i can never get enough coltrane! best sax player to walk to the face of the Earth. where does he get that breath control?

RESPECT A TRUE ICON!!!

[123Tookus]

this is an eternity, one the greats.

[createroro]

piolavago

[turtletouch]

Every time Coltrane played a piece he brought something different and fresh to it. In many ways it was like looking at the song for the first time. There is a version of "Naima" which features Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet as the primary soloist with Trane playing supportive harmony in the backgroud. Sublimely beautiful. I wish I could have seem him live. I heard My Favorite Things for the first time in the summer of 1970. He had passed away three years before. LONG LIVE TRANE!

[que2pineapple]

what version are you talking about that features eric dolphy on bass clarinet with john playing supportive harmony? i'd love to hear it.

[turtletouch]

Actually, I slightly errored. Trane plays an inverted melody of "Naima" because of contractual stipulations from Atlantic and retitled It "Amain" on the original tapes. This version is from the 1961 Vanguard Sessions, Nov. 1. A less expensive CD which includes this version of "Naima" is A John Coltrane Perspective The Impulse Years. 1992 MCA Records. I have this one among others. Its a three dics set which is a great intro to JC's '61-64 period. Enjoy. Peace.

[duemanranch]

elvin jones is on fire!

[mimiwallis]

This is a beautiful piece...after all I was named after this song!!

[ELPsteel]

this is incredible - listen to the way the band comes back into the head at the end

[Shrinkingviolet]

Listen this all the time

[boneysax]

my favorite ballad of all time

[thefivedogs]

This tune is brilliant. As SimPek1 says, this tune only gets newer and better. Every Coltrane performance of this song gives the listener something a bit different than the other performances do. I hope JC is the saint he wanted to be.

[bertinotti]

have you ever noticed that after the wanderings of the quartet Coltrane's return acts like a balm on the wounds opened from their explorations

[popeyedoyle77]

masters.

[popeyedoyle77]

shhh...enjoy the master. do not question.

[fulzgy]

the orignal is fantastic for its own reasons, for being so soft yet powerful.but this version is great for its own reasons. it has a much louder intesity and it shows how coltrane was on a new level from the giant steps era. this has energy and emotion which is all that matters in jazz

[Mamafaster]

soo very comlex man and his jazzistic mind. one question: is it true that he(John used to start a kind of `meditation`and played for more than 10 hours so tha way he could fall withooout energy or stuff like that? Does anyone can answer me, pls? tks.

[bahoss]

Dedication to my sweatheart which her name is Naima.

You're one of the last true female remaining on earth baby.

Love for ever my beautiful Naoma.

[mobetternico]

can you tell me what means naima?i've forgotten,and i want to call my daugther naima...just for the song:)

[bahoss]

Naima means the soft one

[bahoss]

No not soft c*&# but soft woman or soft one if you translate it integraly.

Take care partner :)

[powdercrazed]

He named it after his first wife.

[youcantakeapunch]

I like the version from the album better. It sounded cleaner.

[fulzgy]

the orignal is fantastic for its own reasons, for being so soft yet powerful.but this version is great for its own reasons. it has a much louder intesity and it shows how coltrane was on a new level from the giant steps era. this has energy and emotion which is all that matters in jazz

[SimPek1]

This was not the first time to hear and see Naima. Every time it gets better and better. Every time you find something new. Coltrane sounds so good.

[klezmando]

Great version of this amazing tune, which is really a song.

[NYCBG]

"Father of Jazz"? How about Pops in his "Hot Five" and "Hot Seven" recordings from the mid 1920's? Now, THAT was the birth of the jazz solo! The rest is history...

[dekarthegreat]

I wouldn't consider Miles the father of jazz though. Maybe of this time and style, but there are plenty of people who were around long before Miles was

[jwjenkins]

If you don't feel something for this, then you don't have a soul. Miles father of jazz but Trane was the soul of jazz. This is more than music. This is spiritual. This will take your heart and mind to another level of undstanding passion. The closes example of this is the act of making love.

[Youare00]

Oh man! you really said it!

[jalramos]

Great text, jwjenkins. I really aprecciate it.

[goPistons06]

I'd rather not have a soul than actually like this crap

[phishiscool]

if this is crap then good music must not exist.

[betterthancoltrane]

u have no idea wat u r taling about. if u think this is crap than ur life is a waste and u shoulnd even be alive

[ryanescobar]

McCoy