Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65
Jazz Icons - Jazz Icons
Release date: 2007-09-04
DVD
Actors: John Coltrane
Concerts, English, Free Jazz, Hard Bop, Jazz, Music, Music Video, Music Video - Jazz, Performance, Pop, Post-Bop, USA, United States of America
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Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65
Date undefinedWith this album and A Love Supreme I travel from one ecstatic experience to the next in Coltrane Land. The commentaries already posted pretty much cover the particulars.
Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65
Date undefinedThis is my 5th purchase of the Jazz Icon series, and if
you are a Coltrane fan, you must have this DVD. You'll
be saying to yourself, big dummy, I should have got the
box sets.
Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65
Date undefinedThese three black and white performances(two in Germany and one in Belgium) sport great performances by Coltrane, his quartet and guests Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz and Eric Dolphy. Wynton Kelly plays piano on the first track rather than McCoy Tyner. I was amazed at the quality of cinematography and editing. The last performance in Belgium in '65 has inspired performances all around and is visually stunning and surreal. Apparently, it was a very cold auditorium or outdoors. The performers' bodies, especially drummer Elvin Jones, literally steam!!! It was great to see how Coltrane's stage presence evolved from rather stilted to dynamic like a charismatic preacher. Things start a little slow and the bowed bass solos seem to add little, but the early Peterson solo and then all of the latter tracks blew me away! No interviews, no narration. Roughly 90 minutes of music.
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