timeless
John Coltrane Quartet (JC [1926-1967], tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner [1938-2020], piano; Jimmy Garrison [1934-1976], bass; Elvin Jones [1927-2002], drums), “Impressions” (J. Coltrane), rec. 12/7/1963, San Francisco (Ralph J. Gleason’s Jazz Casual)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
timeless
John Coltrane Quartet (JC [1926-67], tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner [1938-2020], piano; Jimmy Garrison [1934-76], bass; Elvin Jones [1927-2004], drums), live (performance begins at 6:45), New York (Half Note), 1965
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
timeless
John Coltrane Quartet (JQ [1926-1967], tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner [1938-2020], piano; Jimmy Garrison [1934-1976], bass; Elvin Jones [1927-2004], drums), live, New York (Half Note [radio broadcast]), 1965
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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John Coltrane Quartet (JC, 1926-1967, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, 1938-2020, piano; Jimmy Garrison, 1934-1976, bass; Elvin Jones, 1927-2004, drums), live (“Vigil,” Naima,” “My Favorite Things”), Belgium (Comblain-la-Tour), 1965
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random sights
other day, New York
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radio
Today WKCR (Columbia University) celebrates the birthday of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931)—all Bix, all day.
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reading table
In the dark we disappear, pure being.
—Stanley Plumly (1939-2019), from”Wight”
passings
McCoy Tyner, pianist, December 11, 1938-March 6, 2020
John Coltrane Quartet (JC, 1926-1967, tenor saxophone; MC, piano; Jimmy Garrison, 1934-1976, bass; Elvin Jones, 1927-2004, drums), “Impressions” (J. Coltrane), live (TV show), San Francisco, 1963
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art beat: other day, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Dance (I), 1909; Jeannette, c. 1910
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radio
Today, Ornette Coleman’s birthday (b. 1930), it’s all Ornette all day on WKCR (Columbia University).
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John Coltrane Quartet (JC, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums), “Vigil,” “Naima,” “My Favorite Things,” live, Belgium (Comblain-La-Tour), 1965
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Robert Frank (1924-), Cafe – Beaufort, South Carolina, 1955
never enough
John Coltrane Quartet (JC, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums), “Impressions” (J. Coltrane), live (TV show), 1963
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random thoughts
What did we do to deserve such a beautiful world?
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art beat
Francis Wolff, Blue Trane recording session (JC, tenor saxophone; Lee Morgan, trumpet; Curtis Fuller, trombone), Hackensack, N.J., 1957
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A big birthday shout-out to my oldest listening companion, my brother Don, with whom (as I’ve noted before) I’ve shared more musical experiences than I could ever count: the Beatles (Comiskey Park, 1965), the Velvet Underground (Kinetic Playground, 1968), the MC5 (Lincoln Park, 1968) . . .
bloodlines
Ravi Coltrane (JC’s son), tenor saxophone; Matt Garrison, bass (son of Coltrane bassist Jimmy Garrison); Nikki Glaspie, drums; live (Le Poisson Rouge), New York, 1/7/12
Happy (85th) Birthday, Trane!
John Coltrane, September 23, 1926-July 17, 1967
John Coltrane Quartet (JC, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums), “I Want To Talk About You,” live, Sweden (Stockholm), 1962
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radio
All Trane, all day: WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University).
Happy Birthday, Trane!
John Coltrane, September 23, 1926-July 17, 1967
“Naima,” live (with McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass, Elvin Jones, drums), Europe, 1965
#1 (7/27/1965, Antibes, France)
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#2 (4/1/1965, Comblain-La-Tour, Belgium)
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[Coltrane’s sound is] [b]ig, resonant, and it begins at a very high level. He comes to the microphone and delivers a big block of sound rather than doing the normal sort of bell-shape that the best soloists tend to do, where they start out small, then they get big, then they get small and elegant.
Physical descriptions of his sound, especially from my own mouth, always sound meager, because the whole thing about his sound—and the reason I keep using that word in the book—has to do with the fact that if you follow his career, and if you look at what he was doing at the end of his life, you hear these tracks that seemed more and more similar from one to the next, so in the end the message of his work was not so much about composition or structure any more, it was about sound—both the sound coming out of his individual instrument, and the sound coming out of his band.
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thinking about time
The distance between today and 1965—the year of these performances (yesterday’s, too)—is like that between 1965 and 1920.
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radio
Today it’s all Trane all the time on WKCR-FM.
