The John COLTRANE Quartet: - Visit to Scandinavia 1962 (REPOST)

The John COLTRANE Quartet - Visit to Scandinavia 1962 (REPOST)
Label: Jazz Door

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Born John William Coltrane, 23 September 1926, Hamlet, North Carolina, USA, d. 17 July 1967, New York, USA. Coltrane grew up in the house of his maternal grandfather, Rev. William Blair (who gave him his middle name), a preacher and community spokesman. While he was taking clarinet lessons at school, his school band leader suggested his mother buy him an alto saxophone. In 1939 his grandfather and then his father died, and after finishing high school he joined his mother in Philadelphia. He spent a short period at the Ornstein School of Music and the Granoff Studios, where he won scholarships for both performance and composition, but his real education began when he started gigging. Two years' military service was spent in a navy band (1945-46), after which he toured in the King Kolax and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson bands, playing goodtime, rhythmic big-band music. It was while playing in the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (1949-51) that he switched to tenor saxophone. Coltrane's musical roots were in acoustic black music that combined swing and instrumental prowess in solos, the forerunner of R&Born He toured with Earl Bostic (1952), Johnny Hodges (1953-54) and Jimmy Smith (1955). However, it was his induction into the Miles Davis band of 1955 - rightly termed the Classic Quintet - that brought him to notice.
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Next to Davis' filigree sensitivity, Coltrane sounds awkward and crude, and Davis received criticism for his choice of saxophonist. The only precedent for such modernist interrogation of tenor harmony was John Gilmore's playing with Sun Ra. Critics found Coltrane's tone raw and shocking after years in which the cool school of Lester Young and Stan Getz had held sway. It was generally acknowledged, however, that his ideas were first rate. Along with Sonny Rollins, he became New York's most in-demand hard bop tenor player: 1957 saw him appearing on 21 important recordings, and enjoying a brief but fruitful association with Thelonious Monk. That same year he returned to Philadelphia, kicking his long-time heroin habit, and started to develop his own music (Coltrane's notes to the later A Love Supreme refer to a "spiritual awakening"). He also found half of his "classic" quartet: at the Red Rooster (a nightclub that he visited with trumpeter Calvin Massey, an old friend from the 40s), he discovered pianist McCoy Tyner and bass player Jimmy Garrison.
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This is allegedly recorded in Stockholm and Copenhagen in
November of 1962 and features Trane's classic quartet with McCoy
Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on acoustic bass, Elvin Jones on drums
and Coltrane on tenor & soprano sax. The nine tunes include long and
inspired versions of "Naima", "Impression", "Traneing In", "Mr.
P.C.", "Bye Bye Blackbird", "I Want to Talk About You" and "My
Favorite Things". Sound quality is pretty good, but not perfect, but
the playing is superb throughout. Legitimate recordings of the
classic Trane Quartet from this era are few, so this is a rare gem.
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John Coltrane- Tenor & Soprano Saxophone
McCoy Tyner- Piano
Jimmy Garrison- Bass
Elvin Jones- Drums
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Cd 1
01. Naima  (9:29)
02. Traneing  (18:38)
03. Impressions  (7:21)
04. My Favourite Things  (21:14)
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Cd 2
01. Mister P.C.  (15:19)
02. The Inch Worm  (5:40)
03. Bye Bye Blackbird  (14:23)
04. Every Time We Say Goodbye  (5:43)
05. I want To Talk About You  (11:21)
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