I just bought this album today and I'm listening to it as I post. I'm definitely satisfied, it's a damn good album. I especially love how Monk leaves alot of space when he's comping and how that contrasts with some of Coltrane's rapid flourishes of notes and powerful playing. I was reading a bit about the show and found out that it was accidentally discovered in an unmarked box by a Library of Congress engineer in 2005.
my person favorite is Medetations...when he dropped the heroine and decided to purely express himself rather than the lyrical melodic solos of his earlier career
^ I thought he'd kicked heroin several years before he recorded Meditations (before even Kind of Blue and Giant Steps), but I might be wrong about that. Anyway, my favorite Trane album is A Love Supreme, but I can also vouch for just about everything else that has been recommended here... ...except Ascension. I don't really like or understand that one. Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation and Charles Mingus' Black Saint and the Sinner Lady are much more successful experiments with large ensembles playing free-form. For me, Ascension comes off a just plain chaos, but I'll try giving it another spin sometime soon. See if my perception has changed any since last I heard it. I can understand how someone might not like Trane, but boring?? What??
Coltrane is/was a musical genius. I'd still consider him groundbreaking if all he ever did was A Love Supreme.
I dont know dude, Ornett Colemans stuff is a trip. Id say ascension is a little more accessable. Coltranes was the man, he had all his harmonic shit together like WOW.
well he ornett coleman did have a rare style but he didnt really tap into it as well, also the greatest bossa nova jazz player ive heard was stan getz. herbie hancock is also legendary. coleman hawkins is where its at. but some rare as miles davis stuff i heard from his rare studio performances.
YES! Absolutely agree, on these. I also dig Ole Coltrane quite a bit. Also, the album he cut with Johnny Hartman in '63 is outstanding. That one is definitely a change of pace, compared to the rest of his catalog. And I don't usually go for vocal jazz that much, but Hartman is perfect for all those songs. Definitely one of those great late-night, lovin'-bein'-alone kind of records.
Coltrane is god! love love love him! I just saw a theatre reproduction of his life, with a tribute band and everything, AWSOME!
Interstellar Space and Ascension, his psychedelic influenced music, is so visual...there's nothing like it. you can find the song Venus on youtube...listen to it.
