John Coltrane - Blue Waltz - 1965 part 2

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZs4lbo5mQ

July 27, 1965 in Antibes

John Coltrane - Tenor Sax
McCoy Tyner - Piano
Jimmy Garrison - Bass
Elvin Jones - Drums

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Music

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• John
• Coltrane
• Jazz

[ReggaesRockers]

The last note he played were actually two notes at once, never heard anyone play it like that, incredible.

[Astrotype]

Coltrane would spend hours practicing (and perfecting) a single tone on his sax. His playing is unbelievable...

[soydennisbaron]

A great performance from Coltrane from Antibes; but what happened to the videos of "Impressions" and "A Love Supreme"?

[Astrotype]

Impressions (as well as Afro Blue and MFT) from July 27 aren't on video afaik. Naima and Blue Waltz were taped from tv broadcasts so I think that's all that was aired. A Love Supreme from July 26 concert has a tiny bit of video available.

[soydennisbaron]

I understand that French television asked Coltrane to play "A Love Supreme", so for 20 years I have been waiting for them to release video or DVD. Has the tape been completely lost?

[Astrotype]

Unfortunately, to date the source footage hasn't been located...

[opinioninflicting]

maybe your little baby vagina-lipped ears are not ready for the existential backend violation coltrane has in mind here. It's blues by way of recognizing mankind are pitiful automatons, struggling against their own idiocy for some measure of truth, vision and vitality. Sorry you didn't get that.

[imajn8]

Not all music in life is able to be put onto Disney soundtracks.

[splicernyc]

@opinioninflicting "maybe your little baby vagina-lipped ears are not ready for the existential backend violation coltrane has in mind here" might just be the greatest sentence ever constructed in the English language.

[milcentur]

@Astrotype tapes burnt in a fire in french archives

[skrajelasu]

spoczi!a są koltrejny w cooloże?

[Modes9]

It sounds pretty intense on recordings. When you see and hear them laying it down, it's extremely intense. Guys like Liebman who were lucky enough to be in the room with these guys say it was a profound experience to hear this group create in front of you.

[rolyperera]

Love the way the footage is edited.

[bmoreheyab]

Incredible video, the footage is well shot and the use of superimpositions in the editing is highly effective. Too bad the audio goes slightly out of sync starting at 6:45min, Otherwise, it's awesome to see, as well as hear, Coltrane's superhuman energy and creativity- the greatest and most prophetic musician of the 20th century.

[leftywilbury]

i love traditional coltrane, melodic coltrane, ballad coltrane, complex coltrane.

i haven't heard all his records, but i haven't heard a bad one either.

[DaveVelo1]

Coltrane pushed the "jazz" idiom to its extremes. There's a fine line to what "is" defined as being jazz and what isn't. Coltrane stepped over that line in his later years.