John Coltrane Quartet - RTBF Archives (1965) | Qwest TV
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There are a few things about this video that immediately grabs the viewer. There’s the sheer, unbridled physicality: the vapor rising off Elvin Jones’s back, like steam from an old locomotive, as he hammers the drum kit. Or the clack-clack of John Coltrane’s heel smacking the wooden stage, counting off a high-energy version of “Vigil,” the first of three tunes they performed that summer evening in 1965 in a small Belgian town south of Liège.
There’s also a heroic, historic feel to the performance-even emotional. In fact, this is the last footage of John Coltrane’s so-called “Classic Quartet”, one of the greatest jazz bands of all time, featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Jones on drums. Just a few weeks after this concert, the lineup began to unravel, Jones leaving the band and pursuing his own path, and Tyner doing the same before the end of the year.
The performance itself is charged with an impromptu energy typical of that great Quartet, its members able to build (and build and build) the dynamic of the music on just the wisp of a melody. Also typical is Coltrane’s crowd-pleasing choice of tunes; contrary to conventional thinking, he was sensitive to what jazz audiences wanted and expected of him. In 1965, he was pulling from his earliest material in the ‘50s (hence “Naima” in this concert), his biggest success from ’61 (“My Favorite Things”) and the more esoteric, “code-talking”, spiritually titled tunes he was working on that year (“Vigil.”)
Two other details worth mentioning: the reason for the vapor rising from the musicians was an unseasonable chilly evening for mid-summer, which also accounts for the intonation problem Coltrane encounters with his soprano at the start of “My Favorite Things”. Also, there’s a brief moment of Coltrane performing taken from this video and inserted into the movie Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise: jazz history revisited by Hollywood.
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Went and saw some jazz musicians last night, it was a tribute to Coltrane for his bday. We had so much fun, happy birthday John Coltrane!
Beautiful Song
I had Qwest tv when it came out but the app was super laggy and always crashed on Firestick. Going to try and have another go at it, see if theyve updated it. A lot of wonderful vintage Jazz content on there!
Wow…….thank you…….amazing……..the resolution 🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️who are the other musicians playing with John Coltrane?
At first I thought that was smoke….and I realise it is frostiness……..it is that cold wherever they are playing……
The classic Coltrane Quartet...
John Coltrane: tenor saxophone, Jimmy Garrison: bass, Elvin Jones: drums, McCoy Tyner: piano
Happy birthday John Coltrane
THE quartet! It must have been very cold on the stage.