i still don't think he gets the credit he deserves. somewhat understandable when you're playing alongside someone like Coltrane. but he completely changed the game as far as drumming goes.
Yes. Was sitting here totally depressed about my medical situation, unable to shake off the Glooms and Voila! John Coltrane's, My Favorite Things, has transformed me. Again. It's magic!
The thing that always hits me when I hear track is that it's only 4 human beings. They sound like a sonic legion as they cover an enormous amount of harmonic, rhythmic and melodic territory.
In this one song is the essence for those who love jazz and those who hate it. It's pretty easy to parody or ridicule the flights of insane improvisation that seem to have little to do with the number from, of all things, The Sound of Music. For critics, they feel it is excessive, unrelatable, long and self-indulgent. For those of us who love jazz this way, YES it is! Well, not unrelatable if you open yourself up to it. All of those things make this brilliant. They've taken a song and cast over it a moodiness that gets wild and out of control. It plumbs the depths of musical expression. We love the search to find something that didn't exist before each performance. Thank you!
critics are lame, what consists of great, sincere music but self-indulgence? Why would you play with the primary goal to please other people, raw self expression is where is at, at least from someone that is pretty much getting started on jazz that is what I like about it.
I remember on any given Sunday sitting in the pulpit while my Aunty Doll belted Amazing Grace and getting “church chills”. This would’ve been no different. Boderline “orgasmic” (in reference to the quartet and certainly not church)
I got a chance to sit right next to McCoy way back in 2001. My seat was inches from his piano seat (I bribed a lot of people to make this happen). And what I saw was like from Mars. I got to see two shows. I was never the same after.
@@bobbysands6923 Man, if it was at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, I might’ve been right next to you lol I caught him in 1998 it’s an intimate venue so I literally had ebony and ivory keys in my face
Those memories became beyond any descriptions of experience, no doubt. I sat in a chair at the Penthouse lounge Seattle Washington in about 1967 listening to someone I had never heard before, Miles Davis. He played his horn and we watched and flew away with our eyes, ears and opened mouths no doubt. He would play about a half hour, then he would walk away and stand a ways down a counter by the three other musicians. Then leaning on the counter watching them and listening to them, he sipped some liquid. After about 15 minutes or so, he would walk back into the trio/quartet, lift a horn and smoothly glide in, transporting us again to another world. We enjoyed hearing the others by themselves, but with him it was literally indescribable.
40+ years ago we saw and heard Elvin Jones and co. At the Village Vanguard. The playlist was a replay of the legendary ‘Village Vanguard Tapes’ of the early Sixties. Magic! As we left, Elvin shook hands with everyone. A great artist, and a gentleman. I will never forget that evening!
At this point in the quartet’s development these four artists were completely at ease expressing their ideas, feelings, concepts and swing through this material. One of the all time greatest jazz quartets!
Absolutely...! I have dreamt of this band continuing into the 1970s, with guest performances of Eric Dolphy. I would have been able to go and see them...
This group of musicians were so far ahead of time. One could argue they were the best performers of the jazz genre. McCoy Tyners percussive approach to the piano was most notable and unique.
I'm 71years young when I do leave this realm this tune will accompany me to my new existence The greatest artistic endeavor in all of humankind it ranks with the 7wonders of the ancient world Plato, Socrates, Shakespeare, Melville,WEB Dubois,CLR James would all recognize this music as a momentous moment in the chronicles of human experience
An incredible moment 10:12-11:40. McCoy Tyner builds the tension for almost a minute and a half. Tyner plays dominant chords in parallel movement first with the original dominant of the key (B7) and then moves it up a whole step (first Db7, then Eb7, F7, G7 and so on) and finally returns to the original dominant. Even after this, he increases the tension with dissonant and powerful chords, until at 11:40 he powerfully releases the tension back to the first degree of the key, E major. When McCoy hits the E major chord, it feels like the gates of heaven are opening. Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison provide great support. Although I have listened and studied McCoy's solo many times in this particular live performance, I find something new and interesting every time. Arguably one of the greatest piano solos in all of jazz history in my opinion.
@@tboisneaudrums9911 Yes, My Favorite Things starts with E minor, but Coltrane's arrangement switches between extended E minor and E major sections, sandwiched by brief melody statements. McCoy's solo here starts with E minor vamp at 3:46. After that McCoy plays the theme and at around 8:30 vamp switches to E major. So yes, the tune starts and ends in E minor, but the solo section and the incredible parallel movement I was talking about is in the key of E major.
Have you heard the Live In Seattle album? I think he outplays this solo on that performance. It’d be interesting to hear your far more expert opinion on it. I’m a complete technical novice but I have an instinctive ear. Thanks for the musical explanation.
@@cavaleer Which Live in Seattle album are you talking about? As far as I know, there is no version of "My Favorite Things" on that album. I don't know if you mean the Coltrane album "Live at Half Note" with My Favorite Things. In that version, McCoy's solo is absolutely amazing!
I was listening to this last night, laying in bed. What happened next was so surreal, I was half asleep but half awake I feel like and the music was influencing my surreal like state. I cannot even explain it but it was truly beautiful.
Anybody who wants to say that I have lost my mind is free to do so, but if you live anywhere in the southwest, especially in Texas, you have great tailed Grackles somewhere nearby. The next time you hear them in the trees, stop and give a listen. A really good listen. There are about 6 of these birds that hang out in my palm tree, and I swear they sing stuff like this all day. Not the melody, but the improvisation. I've been listening to Coltrane and this song in particular since about 1975, so I'm familiar with it. I started noticing the Grackle birds about 7 years ago, and it's pretty amazing what comes out of them, especially during mating season. They sing all kinds of whole tone scales and harmonic minor modal riffs that honestly sound very similar to the things these guys are doing here. I thought I was going nuts at first, but repeated listening to both the birds and Coltrane makes me wonder if he ever just sat in the park and listened to them, maybe brought his sax and possibly jammed with the Grackles. Anybody who has them nearby should test my hypothesis and then tell me if I'm nuts
from Ireland! so don't know those birds, but love where ur comeing from. thats why trane in my humble opinion was always searching for the next level.already on another level to the rest of us!
@@paulrodden3773 You are obviously somebody who can think outside of the box. Most people who can even comprehend Coltrane fit that description. I've had people tell me "turn it off!" or leave the room if I try to play them something like "Impressions" or "Cousin Mary" those of us who refuse to wear the straitjacket and the ball and chain can hear things coming from the birds, (Charlie Parker's nickname was Bird) or the wind, or a waterfall, or a train rolling by on the tracks, are open to the possibility that not everything we value comes from cut and dried sources. I'll never know for sure if Coltrane ever sat in the park and played along with the Grackles, but given the kind of man he was, I like to think that he was capable of being open to the idea that those birds are musicians too, and that he could learn something from them.
@@jpalberthoward9 thanks for the kind words! i honestly was listening to bird dizzy and monk all together in ""melancholy babe" just now, im on a night of music. best to u and the crackles.
@@paulrodden3773 if you want to at least get some idea of how they sound, there are lots of videos on YT that feature them just type in Great tailed Grackle calls. The only thing is that none of the videos really do them justice compared to what you hear if you come upon 3 or 4 of them in the tree when they really get on a roll. They really are characters.
@@jpalberthoward9 i will tomorrow i promise! tonight im on a buzz with music and other substances! i would like more of this chatter cus u sound interesting, only this morning i was feeding the sparrows, finches and robins! tonight im alone with head phones and enjoying the buzz. are u in the afternoon there and warm in Texas. listening to the gods of art. i can listen to other music to, but allways go back to where we came from. i just had on Louis armstrong, " st James infirmary" i dont know where to go now, do i dare put on coltrane Tyner "song of the underground railroad. or afro blue"
According to experts, listening to J.C for 60 minutes a day is too little! For these experts, listening to Coltrane for 720 minutes a day seems like a reasonable amount of time, especially for those who work from home. It is worth checking. 19:59
There was definitely a spiritual connection with all 4 of them. Although, it was technically a sax solo, it was truly a collective effort to make it sound so powerful! Wow! Imagine, being one of the people experiencing this live!
With Coltrane, and Miles, during this era...we shall never pass this way again. There was really no where else to go. They pushed the envelop of creativity and intensity to the outer reaches of the universe. No knock on the some of the truly great players since, but no one has come near this band, or the great Miles Davis Quintet of the mid 60s.
train didnt run over his woman.....davis did.....he was a striker davis was therefore a sick man. can no longer listen to him....males who strike wymn therefore terrorize children....bye.
This 1961 albumn of the same name had a profound influence on Duanne Allman. It is one of Duanne's most cited influences. McCoy Tyner improvising solos over a two-chord vamp! One of the best-known jazz tracks in history!
It always blows my mind how much music of all types evolved during the 60s, especially jazz. 10 years prior to this recording was 1955 where anything close to this would have been unfathomable. 10 years prior to today? 2012. Obviously no comparison. I can't wrap my head around it. Coltrane's version of this standard is one of my favorite pieces of music... period. This live version is absolutely stunning. Thank you for uploading this. Wow!!
They were fighting to make music as relevant as an aggressive + unfathomable, soul-depraved world. I don't think artists have faced that dilemma since--or haven't truly taken on the challenge. As much as I admire current artists, they simply aren't on the forefront of every aspect of human life and culture, the way it felt guys like Coltrane were, if that's not too much to say. Life didn't filter through him into art (like now); he drew life + dragged life up through him + elevated it spiritually into a living, bleeding art, which is a vastly different process.
my stepdad gave this to me on record when i built my dream setup. i hope this song plays at my funeral because life and this song are some of my favorite things.
Actually seeing John play is like going to church!!! This bravery beyond what most people will ever know, it's known as Training in!!! Guitar players freak over Van Halen's eruption but this is how you release energy
Amazing. So powerful. Elvin sounds like 3 drummers, all in the same pocket. McCoy - that solo! He continues the harmonic side-slipping under Trane's solo. As chromatic and dissonant as it 'should' sound, it all sounds like it's right in place. One big expanded harmonic universe.
I love this poem by the norwegian poet Jan Erik Vold called "Friends" (translated to english): Does anyone have anything against me putting on some John Coltrane? No, that would be difficult.
McCoy Tyner - epic - what a mood, what energy - those chords - crazy chromatism but every note sounds perfect somehow. Elvin matching him. Coltrane bringing it all together and adding beauty and suspense and pure joy. And the bass - is this the best band of any genre ever? Certainly the most mind blowing - it never sounds old - I want this to be the sound track of my life.
This is already the McCoy Tyner who became *the* giant of jazz piano later on with his tsunamis of tones (cp. the ‘Atlantis‘ cover). In the recordings from 1963, only two years earlier, he was still searching for his style and played more ‘cautious‘, less self-confident.
It was 1971. I was 15 and learning how to play the drums. and it was my first time hearing Coltrane. My drum teacher told me of the beauty of Elvis Jones playing. That next year I went to a drum workshop featuring Max Roach and Jones. It was an amazing experience! To this day this quartet blows my mind! I suggest this video for any up and coming jazz musician.
Por lo que veo, soy el único de habla hispana que llegó a este increíble video 🤓 Me siento privilegiado pero también un tanto triste de que haya pocos hispano parlantes disfrutando de esta joya musical ❤
Hi. In a dream last night I was having a conversation about records. This guy said to me “you’ve got to listen to the John Coltrane Quartet- it will blow your mind”. Have only vaguely heard of JC and never been into jazz before. Anyway I just put this on and yes! The guy in my dream was right! It is utterly mind-blowing! After popping my jazz virginity and looking through these comments, thought I’d share with you what brought me here. Why do you consider it ‘the best’? How did you get into jazz? I’m so intrigued. 🤔
Improvising a great song in 3/4-6/8 time..., difficult/challenging for sure..., saw the the great Jimmy Garrison with McCoy Tyner at UMass Amherst in 1972..., when he played a double bass solo, had the room mesmerized! (to use an old cliche!)
Haven't checked in here in 5 years. This used to have millions of hits, being one of the greatest live jazz recordings of all time, which was never released except in the most obscure bootlegs, and during the 70s-90s was spoken of only in hushed and reverent tones. I guess I can understand why they took it down. The times are not worthy of this music.
I think I've heard maybe twenty different live versions of My Favorite Things. I've listened to each of them a few hundred of times over the last 35+ years. This is one of my favorite versions, maybe because it is one of the few with live video. I've just watched it three more times, back to back to back, and I'm speechless every single time I watch it. I LOVE this song!
My daughter asked me what it takes to understand Coltrane. I told her acceptance. Acceptance of your own need to not fit in. Then a mastery of your own feelings and self expression.
In so many videos of this group playing live, you can actually see steam visibly rising from the players on the bandstand. Sometimes the mist obscures the players entirely, giving the impression of red hot bodies in a frigid environment. Elvin Hayes at times was a virtual mist tornado at the center of the group. They must have all been playing at such an insane level to create such a vision of intensity and common purpose. Just really such transcendent performances captured for posterity.
I'm a drummer, so naturally I'm always excited to study Elvin whenever I watch a Trane performance. Yet, somehow, every single time, I'm most captivated by Tyner.
This is is just mind-blowing; by far, one of the greatest jazz performances I've ever heard in my entire life. The passion all four of the musicians have is just amazing; the look on Jimmy Garrison's face alone shows just how into-it the quartet is.
What you are seeing here, as I’m sure that you already know is one more of the greatest jazz compositions delivered by the 4 great gods of jazz: Coltrane; Tyner; Garrison & Jones
YES YES YES! Thank you for uploading this. It used to be on RUclips, then it was taken down - so pleased it's back, as this is the BEST version for marvelling at McCoy Tyner.
@@mkeenan1955 Always makes the hairs on my neck stand up, and I've watched this hundreds of times. If I knew these guys were gonna be reincarnated, just for a repeat performance, I'd drop everything and go anywhere in the world to see it, and die a happy man.
I love jazz. I love it because It´s astonishing how something that seems chaotic can be so beautiful and somehow make sense to us, the uneducated audience. ¿Perhaps it can be said that free jazz is fractal music? If that is true, then jazz is no diferent than life, nature and the cosmos itself.
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You know you're good when Ron Carter comments on your video
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A work of Art !
Legend
My Master Jedi! ❤
McCoy with the Piano solo like his fighting for his life.
Yeah when I, listened I thought he is climbing out of a hole And he m ade it 😅
Beautifully said.
@marcusmashishi1886 OMG! That is So Well Said!!!
He is
this era of mcoy especially during the jazz casual performance is some of my favorite things.....lol didnt mean to do that. be well
why is nobody talking about Elvin Jones here that man killed it the entire time, what an insane drummer
i still don't think he gets the credit he deserves. somewhat understandable when you're playing alongside someone like Coltrane. but he completely changed the game as far as drumming goes.
@@patrickblair2804 definitely in my top ten drummers, any genre
Indeed
Elvin Jones
@@hugovea love that album
This is the highest point jazz ever reached.
They're high alright
that's a mouthful
YES.
100%
Amen.
Yes. Was sitting here totally depressed about my medical situation, unable to shake off the Glooms and Voila! John Coltrane's, My Favorite Things, has transformed me. Again. It's magic!
Fuerza amigo desde Patagonia Argentina abrazo
It has magical properties!!!
blues en él PARAÍSO tasco la gatta.
YES! It just happened to me. 3/17/24 @ 9:42 PM. Thanks JC aka John Coltrane, my Philly brethren.
Animo❤
this is mankind at its peak
If I could see any musical act from the last hundred years perform live, I'd choose this quartet.
anyone here in 2024?
Oui
Forever
Nope..
Yes 👍
This the 1st song I ever heard from John Coltrane and its my favorite lol I always love all the different variations as well..improvisation is ill
this has to be one of the best improvised piano solos in all of human history, right?
🙏🤯
bruh was gettin down 4real
Wrong
@@clearbrain, that’s a great point. Thank you for that profound insight.
@@bdubledoo ruclips.net/video/Zl_76LnAfuY/видео.html
You better get this insight....
The thing that always hits me when I hear track is that it's only 4 human beings. They sound like a sonic legion as they cover an enormous amount of harmonic, rhythmic and melodic territory.
Great point! I hadn't even thought of it that way, but so true!
True
I said the same thing about a BAND OF GYPSIES, HENDRIX BUDDY MILES AND BILLY COX.
Perfectly said. 👍❤️
Their contemporaries used to think the same things.
McCoy took us on a journey!
In this one song is the essence for those who love jazz and those who hate it. It's pretty easy to parody or ridicule the flights of insane improvisation that seem to have little to do with the number from, of all things, The Sound of Music. For critics, they feel it is excessive, unrelatable, long and self-indulgent. For those of us who love jazz this way, YES it is! Well, not unrelatable if you open yourself up to it. All of those things make this brilliant. They've taken a song and cast over it a moodiness that gets wild and out of control. It plumbs the depths of musical expression. We love the search to find something that didn't exist before each performance. Thank you!
critics are lame, what consists of great, sincere music but self-indulgence? Why would you play with the primary goal to please other people, raw self expression is where is at, at least from someone that is pretty much getting started on jazz that is what I like about it.
I'm a trumpeter..a real musician...I'm 52 and I say this with respect..IF YOU DON'T RESPECT THIS??? I question you. Respect.
Good at blowing trumpets like yer maw, proud a ye m8
McCoy Tyner was a monster on the piano. What an artist!
Getting blasted with Burger King and while in the middle of being brought to tears by this masterful performance just ruined my whole year
Be grateful. Things could be worse.
@@dukemantee2978 advertising is fucking disgusting lol, i dont see any reason to be grateful for that
Sorry about that :(
ublock origin my man
Can you imagine what it would have been like to actually be there, and experience this live!?!
I remember on any given Sunday sitting in the pulpit while my Aunty Doll belted Amazing Grace and getting “church chills”. This would’ve been no different. Boderline “orgasmic” (in reference to the quartet and certainly not church)
I got a chance to sit right next to McCoy way back in 2001. My seat was inches from his piano seat (I bribed a lot of people to make this happen). And what I saw was like from Mars. I got to see two shows. I was never the same after.
@@bobbysands6923 Man, if it was at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, I might’ve been right next to you lol I caught him in 1998 it’s an intimate venue so I literally had ebony and ivory keys in my face
I don't know how I'd feel. I probably wouldn't even clap at the end because I'd be sitting there in amazement, pondering over what I just witnessed.
Those memories became beyond any descriptions of experience, no doubt. I sat in a chair at the Penthouse lounge Seattle Washington in about 1967 listening to someone I had never heard before, Miles Davis. He played his horn and we watched and flew away with our eyes, ears and opened mouths no doubt. He would play about a half hour, then he would walk away and stand a ways down a counter by the three other musicians. Then leaning on the counter watching them and listening to them, he sipped some liquid. After about 15 minutes or so, he would walk back into the trio/quartet, lift a horn and smoothly glide in, transporting us again to another world. We enjoyed hearing the others by themselves, but with him it was literally indescribable.
Elvin Jones drummer supreme, playing his drums like an harmonic instrument, breathless transcendence!!!!
40+ years ago we saw and heard Elvin Jones and co. At the Village Vanguard. The playlist was a replay of the legendary ‘Village Vanguard Tapes’ of the early Sixties. Magic! As we left, Elvin shook hands with everyone. A great artist, and a gentleman. I will never forget that evening!
I remember shaking his hand a few times and his hand was like a brick wrapped in sand paper
Tyner increased in power from 1961 through 1965. He went to the school of John Coltrane, as he put it once in an interview.
At this point in the quartet’s development these four artists were completely at ease expressing their ideas, feelings, concepts and swing through this material. One of the all time greatest jazz quartets!
No doubt!
Roger that...
Absolutely...! I have dreamt of this band continuing into the 1970s, with guest performances of Eric Dolphy. I would have been able to go and see them...
Absolutely the quintessential quartet best ever ❤❤
And let’s gets some props for Jimmy Garrison on bass 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This group of musicians were so far ahead of time. One could argue they were the best performers of the jazz genre. McCoy Tyners percussive approach to the piano was most notable and unique.
definitely
the great'st band of all time, but listen to who they listened to. i won't say more, my drugs are confusing me!
I believe they were truly the crescendo of the genre. Almost like, where else could jazz go after them. I argue that, yes, they were the best
The musicians were the "time". That's why their sound is still relevant. Because they were, are, will always be "the time" of jazz!
I think by this point they were beyond "time". They reached Eternity.
I'm 71years young when I do leave this realm this tune will accompany me to my new existence
The greatest artistic endeavor in all of humankind it ranks with the 7wonders of the ancient world
Plato, Socrates, Shakespeare, Melville,WEB Dubois,CLR James would all recognize this music as a momentous moment in the chronicles of human experience
I agree completely!❤
Absolutely.
An incredible moment 10:12-11:40. McCoy Tyner builds the tension for almost a minute and a half. Tyner plays dominant chords in parallel movement first with the original dominant of the key (B7) and then moves it up a whole step (first Db7, then Eb7, F7, G7 and so on) and finally returns to the original dominant. Even after this, he increases the tension with dissonant and powerful chords, until at 11:40 he powerfully releases the tension back to the first degree of the key, E major. When McCoy hits the E major chord, it feels like the gates of heaven are opening. Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison provide great support. Although I have listened and studied McCoy's solo many times in this particular live performance, I find something new and interesting every time. Arguably one of the greatest piano solos in all of jazz history in my opinion.
Isn't that tune in E minor?
@@tboisneaudrums9911 Yes, My Favorite Things starts with E minor, but Coltrane's arrangement switches between extended E minor and E major sections, sandwiched by brief melody statements. McCoy's solo here starts with E minor vamp at 3:46. After that McCoy plays the theme and at around 8:30 vamp switches to E major. So yes, the tune starts and ends in E minor, but the solo section and the incredible parallel movement I was talking about is in the key of E major.
@@joonatanhenrikssonjazz wow, okay, thanks for the detailed explanation!
Have you heard the Live In Seattle album? I think he outplays this solo on that performance. It’d be interesting to hear your far more expert opinion on it. I’m a complete technical novice but I have an instinctive ear. Thanks for the musical explanation.
@@cavaleer
Which Live in Seattle album are you talking about? As far as I know, there is no version of "My Favorite Things" on that album. I don't know if you mean the Coltrane album "Live at Half Note" with My Favorite Things. In that version, McCoy's solo is absolutely amazing!
The greatest musician who ever lived - John Coltrane.
Incredible performance.
There is no music more deserving of the name "jazz" in the truest sense of the word.
So are we gonna ignore how that drummer is killing it
Elvins not killing it he's driving it man. There's a different
@@MrBongoagogo facts
I was listening to this last night, laying in bed. What happened next was so surreal, I was half asleep but half awake I feel like and the music was influencing my surreal like state. I cannot even explain it but it was truly beautiful.
The smoke emanating from these musicians is a sign of magic
Might have been cold that day of performing. Which is also why they sounded flat, but still good music
Anybody who wants to say that I have lost my mind is free to do so, but if you live anywhere in the southwest, especially in Texas, you have great tailed Grackles somewhere nearby. The next time you hear them in the trees, stop and give a listen.
A really good listen.
There are about 6 of these birds that hang out in my palm tree, and I swear they sing stuff like this all day. Not the melody, but the improvisation. I've been listening to Coltrane and this song in particular since about 1975, so I'm familiar with it. I started noticing the Grackle birds about 7 years ago, and it's pretty amazing what comes out of them, especially during mating season. They sing all kinds of whole tone scales and harmonic minor modal riffs that honestly sound very similar to the things these guys are doing here. I thought I was going nuts at first, but repeated listening to both the birds and Coltrane makes me wonder if he ever just sat in the park and listened to them, maybe brought his sax and possibly jammed with the Grackles. Anybody who has them nearby should test my hypothesis and then tell me if I'm nuts
from Ireland! so don't know those birds, but love where ur comeing from. thats why trane in my humble opinion was always searching for the next level.already on another level to the rest of us!
@@paulrodden3773 You are obviously somebody who can think outside of the box. Most people who can even comprehend Coltrane fit that description. I've had people tell me "turn it off!" or leave the room if I try to play them something like "Impressions" or "Cousin Mary" those of us who refuse to wear the straitjacket and the ball and chain can hear things coming from the birds, (Charlie Parker's nickname was Bird) or the wind, or a waterfall, or a train rolling by on the tracks, are open to the possibility that not everything we value comes from cut and dried sources. I'll never know for sure if Coltrane ever sat in the park and played along with the Grackles, but given the kind of man he was, I like to think that he was capable of being open to the idea that those birds are musicians too, and that he could learn something from them.
@@jpalberthoward9 thanks for the kind words! i honestly was listening to bird dizzy and monk all together in ""melancholy babe" just now, im on a night of music. best to u and the crackles.
@@paulrodden3773 if you want to at least get some idea of how they sound, there are lots of videos on YT that feature them just type in Great tailed Grackle calls. The only thing is that none of the videos really do them justice compared to what you hear if you come upon
3 or 4 of them in the tree when they really get on a roll. They really are characters.
@@jpalberthoward9 i will tomorrow i promise! tonight im on a buzz with music and other substances! i would like more of this chatter cus u sound interesting, only this morning i was feeding the sparrows, finches and robins! tonight im alone with head phones and enjoying the buzz. are u in the afternoon there and warm in Texas. listening to the gods of art. i can listen to other music to, but allways go back to where we came from. i just had on Louis armstrong, " st James infirmary" i dont know where to go now, do i dare put on coltrane Tyner "song of the underground railroad. or afro blue"
This must be on the top 3 of Twentieth Century musical performances.
Simply amazing, does it get any better than this! ? They are literally smokin!
right? I also noticed.
Mc coy Tyner delivers a killer solo.
Coltrane’s last solo is up the sky!
And of course Elvin Jones just kills it
and Master Jimmy Garrison!!!
20 minutes of Nirvana! 20 minutes of Joy! 20 minutes of J. Coltrane! Thank you!
My Favorite Things
Music written by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II
Source: SecondHandSongs
@@Gurci28 Nirvana means paradise in buddhism.
According to experts, listening to J.C for 60 minutes a day is too little! For these experts, listening to Coltrane for 720 minutes a day seems like a reasonable amount of time, especially for those who work from home. It is worth checking. 19:59
This was the piece of music that helped me fully understand modal. Coltrane was truely one of our greatest musicians.
This is the definition of "spiritual"!! Absolutely beautiful!!❤❤❤
Goosebumps. John Coltrane Quartet is the best band ever. Ask Jimi.
There was definitely a spiritual connection with all 4 of them. Although, it was technically a sax solo, it was truly a collective effort to make it sound so powerful! Wow! Imagine, being one of the people experiencing this live!
With Coltrane, and Miles, during this era...we shall never pass this way again. There was really no where else to go. They pushed the envelop of creativity and intensity to the outer reaches of the universe. No knock on the some of the truly great players since, but no one has come near this band, or the great Miles Davis Quintet of the mid 60s.
I agree wholeheartedly!❤
train didnt run over his woman.....davis did.....he was a striker davis was therefore a sick man. can no longer listen to him....males who strike wymn therefore terrorize children....bye.
Wise words. This music touches the soul at his deepest.
Amen,
This 1961 albumn of the same name had a profound influence on Duanne Allman. It is one of Duanne's most cited influences.
McCoy Tyner improvising solos over a two-chord vamp!
One of the best-known jazz tracks in history!
All the musicians in this version of the quartet are playing at an astoundingly high level.
It always blows my mind how much music of all types evolved during the 60s, especially jazz. 10 years prior to this recording was 1955 where anything close to this would have been unfathomable. 10 years prior to today? 2012. Obviously no comparison. I can't wrap my head around it.
Coltrane's version of this standard is one of my favorite pieces of music... period. This live version is absolutely stunning. Thank you for uploading this. Wow!!
Yes, and not just music. In the beginning of the decade there was no man in space. Before the decade ended we walked on the Moon.
They were fighting to make music as relevant as an aggressive + unfathomable, soul-depraved world. I don't think artists have faced that dilemma since--or haven't truly taken on the challenge. As much as I admire current artists, they simply aren't on the forefront of every aspect of human life and culture, the way it felt guys like Coltrane were, if that's not too much to say. Life didn't filter through him into art (like now); he drew life + dragged life up through him + elevated it spiritually into a living, bleeding art, which is a vastly different process.
Thank you
my stepdad gave this to me on record when i built my dream setup. i hope this song plays at my funeral because life and this song are some of my favorite things.
Actually seeing John play is like going to church!!! This bravery beyond what most people will ever know, it's known as Training in!!! Guitar players freak over Van Halen's eruption but this is how you release energy
true! there are metal bands that just don't duplicate this energy.
Because this is good doesn't mean Eruption isn't also good
They are both transcendent moments for their instrument and genre
本当にイイ時代に生まれたと思う❗😊まさか爺様になって、コルトレーンの映像を見られるなんて若き日には考えてもなかったヨ…😔
agree...saw sarah vaughan in 58, miles at plugged nickel in 65 and hundreds of others but sadly never caught trane live
Amazing. So powerful.
Elvin sounds like 3 drummers, all in the same pocket.
McCoy - that solo! He continues the harmonic side-slipping under Trane's solo. As chromatic and dissonant as it 'should' sound, it all sounds like it's right in place. One big expanded harmonic universe.
I love this poem by the norwegian poet Jan Erik Vold called "Friends" (translated to english):
Does anyone have anything against
me putting on some John Coltrane?
No, that would be difficult.
McCoy Tyner - epic - what a mood, what energy - those chords - crazy chromatism but every note sounds perfect somehow. Elvin matching him. Coltrane bringing it all together and adding beauty and suspense and pure joy. And the bass - is this the best band of any genre ever? Certainly the most mind blowing - it never sounds old - I want this to be the sound track of my life.
Truly ‘hairs on the back of the neck’ stuff
Delivered me to another world ...
Coltrane being able to just completely change the note of the song, it's insane
Certainly one of the greatest pianists ever.
This is already the McCoy Tyner who became *the* giant of jazz piano later on with his tsunamis of tones (cp. the ‘Atlantis‘ cover). In the recordings from 1963, only two years earlier, he was still searching for his style and played more ‘cautious‘, less self-confident.
ジャズの最高到達点
マイルスとの So what を越える
当時 私は2歳 サウンドオブミュージックは知っていた
現在 映像で観れる幸せ
神に感謝します😼💦
いえ、ぜんぜん超えていません。
It was 1971. I was 15 and learning how to play the drums. and it was my first time hearing Coltrane. My drum teacher told me of the beauty of Elvis Jones playing. That next year I went to a drum workshop featuring Max Roach and Jones. It was an amazing experience! To this day this quartet blows my mind! I suggest this video for any up and coming jazz musician.
I started listening to Coltrane when I was 13 in 1972 then started playing tenor and soprano. I love brother John C
Thank you for posting. The Jones Family loves to see this beautiful music seen and heard! Best wishes.
Elvin Jones is my best drummer ever. He is my idol on my life. So appreciated to hear that.
Por lo que veo, soy el único de habla hispana que llegó a este increíble video 🤓 Me siento privilegiado pero también un tanto triste de que haya pocos hispano parlantes disfrutando de esta joya musical ❤
This is an absolute hurricane of beauty and power!
This is the best video on the internet. Absolutely amazing
Hi. In a dream last night I was having a conversation about records. This guy said to me “you’ve got to listen to the John Coltrane Quartet- it will blow your mind”.
Have only vaguely heard of JC and never been into jazz before. Anyway I just put this on and yes! The guy in my dream was right! It is utterly mind-blowing!
After popping my jazz virginity and looking through these comments, thought I’d share with you what brought me here.
Why do you consider it ‘the best’? How did you get into jazz? I’m so intrigued.
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Piano solo after The Master....!!!?!?!!?!, pfffff, pure cream , puuuuure creaaaaaam
First ever jazz tune which made me drop a tear
Probably the best quartet ever assembled.
This is some of the most indulgent jazz-for-jazz lovers music. And yet they snipped out three minutes and turned it into a pop hit.
A killer melody with a good beat will alwys be a hit
McCoys final year with the quartet is amazing, totally changed the nature of the ryhthm section.
I want so hard to be able to get his sound.
素晴らしいセッションに感動です
この記録を残してくださったことに感謝します
Improvising a great song in 3/4-6/8 time..., difficult/challenging for sure..., saw the the great Jimmy Garrison with McCoy Tyner at UMass Amherst in 1972..., when he played a double bass solo, had the room mesmerized! (to use an old cliche!)
What a blessing that we have the chance to witness these masters playing live long after they've passed.
Haven't checked in here in 5 years. This used to have millions of hits, being one of the greatest live jazz recordings of all time, which was never released except in the most obscure bootlegs, and during the 70s-90s was spoken of only in hushed and reverent tones. I guess I can understand why they took it down. The times are not worthy of this music.
Watching Coltrane plays makes me want to cry ! It;s so genius !
Coltrane was simply ahead of his time. No one else comes near him in those golden years of jazz.
miles davis
Simply incredible. This quartet put on a masterclass performance
Oh my ! you simply cannot use words to express the brilliance of this performance.Four master musicians at their very peak.
Coltrane's music is great. No fading even now.
They're travelling galaxies standing still...
Or the universe is passing thru them . Either way celestial beauty is in motion with kindred spirits
They were music in flesh, bones and soul. The very best musicians that ever existed.
I think I've heard maybe twenty different live versions of My Favorite Things. I've listened to each of them a few hundred of times over the last 35+ years. This is one of my favorite versions, maybe because it is one of the few with live video. I've just watched it three more times, back to back to back, and I'm speechless every single time I watch it. I LOVE this song!
I agree, although I think it's between this one and the Newport '63 version. They're both so good for different reasons.
What other Coltrane ones stand out?
@@samwilde6323 Newport 63 and Antibes France 1965 are outstanding
Yeah he did, the endurance these guys have is phenomenal. That piano player, my god!
that's mccoy tyner and you are absolutely correct
That man just demonstrated a master class in improvised jazz piano. What a pleasure in watching the master!!
Seriously! There’s so much to analyze here harmonically it’s stunning.
My daughter asked me what it takes to understand Coltrane.
I told her acceptance.
Acceptance of your own need to not fit in.
Then a mastery of your own feelings and self expression.
NO SE PUEDE CREER, TANTA EMOCIÓN QUE NO CESA, QUE SIEMPRE ESTARÁ, SI HAY UN DIOS ES ÉSTE. !!!
In so many videos of this group playing live, you can actually see steam visibly rising from the players on the bandstand. Sometimes the mist obscures the players entirely, giving the impression of red hot bodies in a frigid environment. Elvin Hayes at times was a virtual mist tornado at the center of the group. They must have all been playing at such an insane level to create such a vision of intensity and common purpose. Just really such transcendent performances captured for posterity.
❤
Uh, no disrespect, but Elvin Hayes played for the Houston Rockets, not the John Coltrane Quartet.
they're literally smokin!
Yeah I saw that coming off the drums. What is that??
@@poppslayer7660it was cold that day
Brutal. Me explota la cabeza...
How can a four piece band make this kind of music that know one else could never duplicate amazing
These guys we’re playing in a cold room, see their breath? Outstanding
Utterly brilliant. Could listen to this quartet forever…..the best quartet in jazz ever.
Dear God .. They brought it that night. Great!
This is once in A lifetime music,totally amazing,they were in another zone,completely unique !
There is steam flowing out of them like an aura… the piano was an fire
I'm a drummer, so naturally I'm always excited to study Elvin whenever I watch a Trane performance.
Yet, somehow, every single time, I'm most captivated by Tyner.
This is is just mind-blowing; by far, one of the greatest jazz performances I've ever heard in my entire life. The passion all four of the musicians have is just amazing; the look on Jimmy Garrison's face alone shows just how into-it the quartet is.
Way beyond and above everything. The rest, not even close
always love this mccoy solo, appreciate putting this back up. hopefully this one stays a while
What you are seeing here, as I’m sure that you already know is one more of the greatest jazz compositions delivered by the 4 great gods of jazz: Coltrane; Tyner; Garrison & Jones
This whole performance is pretty incredible.....from 9:00 to 12:00 is transcendental. What masterful players!
And this talented musician here. 12:43 A master!
They all look as though they were in a "trance " state of mind!! What awesome musicians!!!!❤
Improvisation up the wassoo!
The music is Everlasting. Thank you.
Improvisation through a deep knowledge of harmony. Just wow.
It’s 2025 and this video is from the future
YES YES YES! Thank you for uploading this.
It used to be on RUclips, then it was taken down - so pleased it's back, as this is the BEST version for marvelling at McCoy Tyner.
McCoy Tyner was a genius.
Why is listening to his left hand so mesmerizing? I can’t describe the feeling I get listening to him.
@@mkeenan1955 Always makes the hairs on my neck stand up, and I've watched this hundreds of times. If I knew these guys were gonna be reincarnated, just for a repeat performance, I'd drop everything and go anywhere in the world to see it, and die a happy man.
Emotional collapse is unavoidable. I can't avoid breaking into tears !!
Amazing love between the music and the musicians. Expression exhortation imagination and peace to this blessing to our souls.
We are lucky to able to experience this. Sadly, not live, but I’m not complaining!
Monstros sagrados !!!!
Que espetáculo , melhor quarteto da história do jazz , não tem para ninguém , absurdo !!!!
I love jazz. I love it because It´s astonishing how something that seems chaotic can be so beautiful and somehow make sense to us, the uneducated audience. ¿Perhaps it can be said that free jazz is fractal music? If that is true, then jazz is no diferent than life, nature and the cosmos itself.
The real jazzmen understood that jazz is a philosophy, a way to live, to think
Magical sounds. Elvin Jones on drums. Absolute genius. Coltrane is a angel of music looking down on us spiritual musicians with a smile 😊