Nearly every time I hear this, his tone and his being and all it’s liveliness and deep feeling, I get a tear that comes to me or a hard ball in my throat. It never gets old. It’s like a Vitamin injection of courage and beauty and truth.
Black men in America, in those days, could not even sit in any seat on a bus, eat at a lunch counter, make a decent wage, sleep in a hotel of their choosing, laugh out loud, get a mortgage or attend college but had the clarity and objective perspicuity to vision the shape and trajectory of music for the next 65 years. This was in the mid 1960's. The British invasion for rock was just happening. Country music was perversely obstinate and still stuck in the agricultural south and the big band White orchestra's were still getting bookings. I thank God this morning for John Coltrane; I thank the god of mercy for giving him to the world.
Trane was a Saint. He gave his life so that we could revel in his fruits and great truths. Always the most wonderful humans come in the greatest times of need.
My opinion is that this is the only footage of this giant in this concert filmed by amateur photographer 1962👏🏻🌿🌹🙋♂️ kind regard Tommy Björling in Sweden
John Coltrane, the Supreme King of the saxophone. John Coltrane, the human symbol of excellence. John Coltrane, the spirit that will be enshrined in the forefront of the African American culture.
I can hear and feel the words to this beautiful song as he plays to a superb accompaniment! Thank God for loaning us this man, to bring joy and love to those who have ears to hear and a heart to feel!
This very tune sends me into another zone that can't be explained. This tune has always been a favorite of mine. So fortunate to have seen this gifted group. Trane would not have been the same with no others but these guys. So exceptional, sheer magic!!!!!!!
This is one of the greatest performances of Trane's...There is an LP I have called Cotraneolgy, also recorded in Sweden, and Coltrane plays an incredible version of this song in which plays a quite lengthy cadenza. It sounds like the same time period as this, re: Tranes' sound and the harmonic ideas he's playing. Perhaps just a different night form the same tour. Whatever it is, they're both some of the greatest music ever recorded. Thank you Swedes for recognizing, presenting and recording Coltrane live, certainly more than Americas did at the time, or there'd be film footage of this quartet from the archives of CBS, NBC or ABC...but there is zilch, nada, none! Man, did they miss the damn boat!
The recording equipment back then wasn't nothing to write home about compared to what they've got out now, but those brothers sang through that shit!!!!
...what a BEAUTIFUL TESTAMENT to FEMALES...!!!...there is NOTHING that is MORE ABSOLUTE...than THIS...!!!...the FEMALE...GOD'S GREATEST CREATION & GOD'S GREATEST GIFT to MANKIND...!!!
HE FOR SURE TRANSCENDED TO HEAVEN AND TOOK ALL WHO LISTENED TO HIM ALONG. I KNOW I WAS THERE. THAT'S WHY THEY THE COLTRANE CHURCH IN PHILLY! YOU BELIVE IN GOD IF HE SENDS US SUCH BEINGS!
las palabras siempre me van a quedar cortas para describir cuanto admiro a estos tipos.. Tuve la suerte de ver a McCoy Tyner en el Gran Rex hace unos años, de la emoción estuve 1 semana con la voz temblando.. Todo muy profundo. Les dejo un gran abrazo.
Am I wrong or is it rare and quite impressive that an "audience member" had the equipment to record this with good sound in 1962? Would the equipment not have been bulky and very expensive?
+Shaun Pearson The sound is taken from the album "The Complete Stockholm Concert" and "merged" into a film either someone belonging to the concert house or in the audience recorded. Bless him!
this was broadcast on Swedish Television and recorded by Lars Westin, the same person that recorded and produced the great sounding Swedish concerts of Miles Davis and John Coltrane in 1960.. this is most likely a late generation copy with very diminished quality from the original broadcast/tape and so the sound is lifted from a record
Kind of bulky, but a reel to reel and two well placed mics could do it. I've heard recordings from 1972 that used a reel to reel (with an electric guitarist, loud like Hendrix) and it sounded fabulous. You'd need a pretty big bag to carry into the music hall though.
Absolutely magical. Trane is definitely one of the greatest of all time. By the way, does anyone knows if there is any footage of him playing Blue Train? All I have seen so far are still images and the background sound, but I'd love to see him actually performing that masterpiece. Thanks in advance!!
great recording of this quartet. everybody is very audible, the cymbals could be a little easier to hear, but great for the time period. Coltrane sounds amazing as always.
So rare... Sounds post-1962, maybe 1965 max, at least 1961 cause here it is John Coltrane's Quartet. On records, John only played this ballad before in 1957, or maybe it's 1958, during his Miles Davis period.
It’s likely 1962 in Austria. The biggest evidence to that is several records listing that as the date, no Eric Dolphy in the band, and no cadenza at the end at this point. Also, Coltrane most certainly did play ballads on records post 1960 (eg. Ballads, John Coltrane With Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Duke Ellington, Coltrane (1962), and a bunch more examples)
