John Coltrane - Ascension

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  • Composed by John Coltrane -- Released on Impulse! in February 1966
    This is the 1st take of the piece, called "Edition II", recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs - N.J. , 28 June, 1965
    Personnel :
    Trumpet - Dewey Johnson , Freddie Hubbard
    Alto Saxophone - John Tchicai , Marion Brown
    Tenor Saxophone - Archie Shepp , John Coltrane , Pharoah Sanders
    Piano - McCoy Tyner
    Bass - Art Davis , Jimmy Garrison
    Drums - Elvin Jones
    Order of Soloists and Ensemble:
    1. (Opening Ensemble)
    2. Coltrane solo
    3. (Ensemble)
    4. Johnson solo
    5. (Ensemble)
    6. Sanders solo
    7. (Ensemble)
    8. Hubbard solo
    9. (Ensemble)
    10. Tchicai solo
    11. (Ensemble)
    12. Shepp solo
    13. (Ensemble)
    14. Brown solo
    15. (Ensemble)
    16. Tyner solo
    17. Davis and Garrison duet
    18. (Concluding Ensemble)

ความคิดเห็น • 672

  • @BrandonCuringtonOfficial
    @BrandonCuringtonOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    "What's the wifi password?"
    Me: "It's underneath the router"
    Underneath the router:

    • @minemoul2136
      @minemoul2136 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      who's ligma

    • @Norogoth
      @Norogoth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is such a quality comment.

  • @BintyMcFrazzles
    @BintyMcFrazzles 6 ปีที่แล้ว +611

    From John Coltrane's "Easy Listening" phase.

    • @Goatchild90
      @Goatchild90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @antonellodelmastro423
      @antonellodelmastro423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ahahahahah !!!-great !!

    • @Jazztpt
      @Jazztpt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol you cracked me up there

    • @reggaefan2700
      @reggaefan2700 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Are you being sarcastic? This sounded just like pure noise, hardly "easy listening."

    • @danielondaatje1891
      @danielondaatje1891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@reggaefan2700 someone gets the joke

  • @blacksantaria3642
    @blacksantaria3642 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I HAD THE CHANCE TO SEE JOHN COLTRANE IN 1966 ,IT WAS LIKE SEEING AND HEARING GOD .

    • @ludwigfeuerbach
      @ludwigfeuerbach ปีที่แล้ว +3

      God I wish I could have seen him! I live around the block from his Philly house in Strawberry Mansion, and visit it often. It's almost a ruin, and I never see any other Coltrane followers there, but it just makes me so content to sit on his stoop.

  • @ABurgess
    @ABurgess 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I had a friend who played this for me when we were sophomores in high school and I did. Not. Get. It.
    I haven’t forgotten how much I didn’t get it especially now that nearly all of the performers on this record are very important and dear to me as a player, listener and composer.

  • @livieira7907
    @livieira7907 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    This stops my thoughts, so I stay less anxious and be present at the now. Great John!

    • @liamcorey3839
      @liamcorey3839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I listen to alot of this music when suffering with anxiety. Don't know why but the chaos seems to help me lol

    • @smallcorner7942
      @smallcorner7942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@liamcorey3839 Yeah me too, it even helps me sleep

    • @guilhermequinato4320
      @guilhermequinato4320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Got this feel listening to first meditations. Really calm me and make the anxious go away

    • @bluesinsideout
      @bluesinsideout 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Brilliant! I never thought about it this way. It really forces you to listen and be present. No passive listening here.

    • @lukehall8151
      @lukehall8151 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      when else could you be present?! unless you mean metaphorically

  • @RightfulFallen
    @RightfulFallen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    This piece starts out like it's trying to not be free jazz and then at some point immediately after, it just can't hide it anymore.

    • @LeafGreen906
      @LeafGreen906 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      this was coltranes approach to free jazz, he started pieces in a modal framework just to break out of it

    • @alamooji3716
      @alamooji3716 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hahahaha funny funny funny

    • @MrIcenice44
      @MrIcenice44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I read this ass it was happen

    • @adamtabl
      @adamtabl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "free jazz' is not a term Coltrane ever used in describing his music....

    • @Bear-ow9gy
      @Bear-ow9gy ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@adamtabl Coltrane nods in approval from the grave, get yourself a chocolate bar

  • @terrycollett603
    @terrycollett603 5 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    My late parents bought me this album for Christmas 1966.

    • @hmm4214
      @hmm4214 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And in 1967? Meditations

    • @Suchapill
      @Suchapill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you dig it?

    • @emilianoturazzi
      @emilianoturazzi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      great!

    • @SeahorsesJay
      @SeahorsesJay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Pet Sounds wasn't available?

    • @eziauditore
      @eziauditore 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Damn your parents had cool ass taste 👍

  • @bakedovenfresh716
    @bakedovenfresh716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I played a duo version of this for a church service some years ago, and the Reverend recognized it and recalled how he first heard the album. He bought it in college when it first came out and turned it on and up in the dorms. The most beautiful sound. It was unlike anything he had heard. Not everybody back then liked it, but that wasn't the point of the music. It calls for something deep and not. Pastor Phil loved this album and it makes me think of him and his love for music when I hear. RIP Phil Gittings

    • @magnuseng3345
      @magnuseng3345 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kyrie eleision

    • @CarlJunior1111
      @CarlJunior1111 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is my first time hearing this album. Time keeps on pushing into the future. In time, our trivial daily exploits will be the stuff of grandeur: whimsical stories told of old. Thank you for sharing your story: it gives a sense of gravity to this fine work.

    • @royjones3099
      @royjones3099 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Your pastor obviously was a beautiful open spirit..ascension indeed

    • @shekinahrodz8769
      @shekinahrodz8769 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow great church ❤

  • @vermeer5
    @vermeer5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    The older I get, and the more I listen to this, the more sense it makes as a complete work of art.

    • @liamcorey3839
      @liamcorey3839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The older I get the more I appreciate this kind of music. Might of took me 30 years but I love this

    • @reggaefan2700
      @reggaefan2700 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bad art?

    • @Juan-wo7zu
      @Juan-wo7zu ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@reggaefan2700 art is only determined to be good or bad by the interpreter

    • @gibberconfirm166
      @gibberconfirm166 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@reggaefan2700 You could question whether it's an elegant piece of music with all those bodies and cacophonies, I don't think the meaning is too hard to discover. I used to be obsessed with John Coltrane and not necessarily my favorite to go back to. And I totally get all his most hardcore recordings, if you're trying to go as hardcore as possible, probably just leave it to you and Pharoah Sanders/Elvin Jones or Rashied Ali.

    • @DistantLights
      @DistantLights ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeh, I'm starting to hear its beauty

  • @michaelwosslert9524
    @michaelwosslert9524 5 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    To make this kind of music in 1965...what a hero.

    • @DreamlessSleepwalker
      @DreamlessSleepwalker 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Classical musicians had made more avant garde music than this by the 1920s, and by the time this came out they were ascended beyond ascenscion.

    • @bhoare8620
      @bhoare8620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DreamlessSleepwalker musicians like who?

    • @greenhotdog12345
      @greenhotdog12345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@bhoare8620 Arnold Schoenberg, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Anton Webern

    • @smallcorner7942
      @smallcorner7942 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bhoare8620 How ''weak'' exactly? And how are they not as abstract as Coltrane?

    • @Zach-bt2ky
      @Zach-bt2ky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@bhoare8620 LMFAO. You spent less than one day skipping through the first result that comes up when you google those names and have decided that they are all 'slightly strange classical music' with conviction. It is glaringly apparent how little you know about music of this sort, your posturing is comedic if anything.
      Comparing the influence of experimentation in different genres is illogical, but you are out of your depth in any discourse here, i doubt you even listen to much jazz.

  • @arcadedomination8006
    @arcadedomination8006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    This album is so much fun to listen to because everything you hear is unexpected to the maximum.

    • @Ore00000
      @Ore00000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ??????????????????????????????????????????

  • @EbonyEyedBrija
    @EbonyEyedBrija 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Putting this on is the polite way of telling everyone at the party that it's over, no one's validating parking, and no one's Beyonce song request is being honored.

  • @caioreis9931
    @caioreis9931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Cathartic music! They are expressing the inner truth completely free of judgment, with all the pain, anxiety, despair that comes with beauty and happiness in life . It is not something to please others. It's something to express oneself in a total free way.

  • @freddiebell2813
    @freddiebell2813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Watching my father listen to this in '67.... he just looked at me and said.... one day you'll understand.... His advice to this day, once the umbilical cord was cut... was ahead of it's time.

  • @roseshipley9855
    @roseshipley9855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It's like I'm visiting various alien planets. The ensemble parts are the intense light speed journey through the stars, and the solos are just the musicians describing their home planets to me.

    • @Judas_1989
      @Judas_1989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      wtf are you talking about? It's just a no-brainer mess.

    • @jman12849
      @jman12849 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Judas_1989 post-modernists will ascribe meaning to every single detail. love trane, but this is trash

  • @percyheat
    @percyheat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +304

    Backing track
    1. Opening Ensemble 00:00
    2. Coltrane solo 03:12
    3. (Ensemble) 05:50
    4. Johnson solo 07:45
    5. (Ensemble) 09:38
    6. Sanders solo 11:51
    7. (Ensemble) 14:30
    8. Hubbard solo 15:40
    9 (Ensemble) 17:38
    10 Tchicai solo 18:50
    11. (Ensemble) 20:00
    12. Shepp solo 21:10
    13. (Ensemble) 24:12
    14. Brown solo 25:09
    15. (Ensemble) 27:20
    16. Tyner solo 29:53
    17. Davis & Garrison Duet 33:27
    18. (Concluding Ensemble) 35:47

  • @ddog23
    @ddog23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Elvin Jones is a force of nature.

    • @Formula-602
      @Formula-602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Was

    • @DoctorInsomnia-qw7us
      @DoctorInsomnia-qw7us 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      IS, not WAS, because he lives speaks and breathes through his music 🎵🎶 🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶

  • @adolfomendonca
    @adolfomendonca 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    5:25 When you're late to school and your mother starts yelling and opening all the windows

    • @austinjohnson7769
      @austinjohnson7769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      14:05 when your neighbors donkey walks in the middle of your jam sesh

  • @hosshoss777
    @hosshoss777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    i don't think you fully appreciate this piece of music until you take into account that it fulfills a contractual obligation to the record label, that it was recorded, pressed and released for retail sale and promoted even, such as it was. This was and still is as real as it gets. Coltrane not only understood music, the cosmos, and spirit, but he had quite a handle on the music business too, he did not die a poor man, quite the opposite,
    spontaneous immortality

    • @STARCHYLD77
      @STARCHYLD77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that was the lsd talking oh yes coltrane dropped acid !!!

    • @ijustgotreallystoned638
      @ijustgotreallystoned638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@STARCHYLD77 of course Coltrane dropped acid, every great album ever made was made with the aid of drugs.

    • @AngelWest58
      @AngelWest58 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      brilliant. yr comment ... spontaneous immortality indeed... chasing spontanaiety

  • @sunkintree
    @sunkintree 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    After listening to this once I can honestly say that I might understand it some day

    • @eddyc4603
      @eddyc4603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Quit trying.

    • @MrIcenice44
      @MrIcenice44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That’s the spirit

  • @daveenpeterus9481
    @daveenpeterus9481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I bought this record many years ago, played it numerous times, and frankly couldn't tolerate it - just too messy, unstructured, impossible to understand. Then one time I was sitting in a comfortable chair, drinking a glass of wine, again listening to it (I'm stubborn), and fell partly asleep. A half hour went by, I woke up and said "now I get it". Have to just turn off rational thought and jump in the deep end.

    • @ifutureman
      @ifutureman ปีที่แล้ว

      I am not averse to noise, but that's all I heard when I tried to love this 30 years ago when i was digging stuff like Giant Steps and Blue Train. But I gotta admit there is something to this madness after all. It definitely helps to see the indexing of the different solos. I skipped ahead to McKoy Tyner and it changed my whole conception of this piece. Still not sure I'll ever listen to the whole thing though LOL

  • @carl_yung
    @carl_yung 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This annihilated me. I was weeping and had goosebumps at the end.. its hard to explain. Like some natural force communicating, oscillating between full on eruption and calming down, then back to chaos until it crashes at the end with a tired energy.. I'm not quite getting it with words. But I think that's the point.. its so beyond that, it just exists as it is and demands you join in from the beginning.

  • @groove1722
    @groove1722 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This album was a Five Star rated LP offered free to new subscribers to Down Beat magazine back in 1966. They sent this to me when I was 13 years old. My life has never been the same since. Sounds as awesome now as it did back then. Shades of Sun Ra hear. John Coltrane the intergalactic music explorer !!!

    • @brucescott4261
      @brucescott4261 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rickey Joyce ...Ascension wasn't played over the airwaves during and after Trane's lifetime, PERIOD!!!

    • @michaelpastorkovich9341
      @michaelpastorkovich9341 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I subscribed to downbeat in '66, and I didn't get a free record. I feel cheated.

    • @groove1722
      @groove1722 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brucescott4261 Never! The radio loved playing his My Favorite Things.

    • @groove1722
      @groove1722 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaelpastorkovich9341 Yeah within that magazine they had that insert. Down Beat used to rate LP"s Ascension was a Five Star Record. They used has those 5 Star records in the insert to get you to subscribe.

    • @camthesaxman3387
      @camthesaxman3387 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      5 stars for this rubbish? That has to be a joke. No wonder why I can't take music critics seriously.

  • @THEDUSTINLEWITSHOW
    @THEDUSTINLEWITSHOW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This would make a great ringtone.

  • @josephshahady8308
    @josephshahady8308 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I feel like its something that keeps rising but never quite gives way. Like endless potential that never gets resolved, only perpetuated

  • @T.Ramby11
    @T.Ramby11 6 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Best "free jazz" album ever. Followed by Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures, Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity, Coltrane's Meditations and Interstellar Space, Archie Shepp's Fire Music, Andrew Hill's Compulsion, Roscoe Mitchell's Sound, Don Cherry's Orient, Steve Lacy's The Gap, and Sun Ra's records from the 60s. And so many more great, under-appreciated records from that era.

    • @thorstentopp1269
      @thorstentopp1269 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Don Cherry on Blue Note with Sanders and Gato Barberi! Really contemporary stuff.

    • @7stringjazz1
      @7stringjazz1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thats quite an impressive list! Agreed.

    • @nathanclark3046
      @nathanclark3046 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      control + copy

    • @Chromexus
      @Chromexus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Don Cherry : Eternal Rhythm. Alan Silva Seasons. Art Ensemble Of Chicago Baptizum John Tchcai Afrodisiaca JCOA; Escalator Over The Hill

    • @T.Ramby11
      @T.Ramby11 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thorsten Töpp love those Don Cherry Blue Note albums. Was just listening to Complete Communion today. I actually found a copy of Don Cherry and Gato Barbieri’s Togetherness in a record store in Florence. Awesome album and one of my favorite finds.

  • @pinkraven4402
    @pinkraven4402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The more I listen to it the better and less randomly chaotic it gets

  • @blacksantaria3642
    @blacksantaria3642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    NO ONE IN THIS WORLD WILL EVER , EVER CATCH UP WITH WHAT JOHN COLTRANE PLAYED ON ASCENSION. NO ONE DOES IT LIKE THE BLACK MAN . I LOVE , LOVE ,LOVE THIS MUSIC . IF YOU CAN'T HEAR THIS , GET THE WAX OUT OF YOUR EARS .

  • @baldurmoizisch6905
    @baldurmoizisch6905 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    In the beginning this was harder for my ears than Ornette Colemans free jazz album, althaugh there are two bass players and two drummers. But now it gets better and better. For the moment, the solo of Pharoah Sanders is my most beloved part. What a great music to discover!

    • @RivieraByBuick
      @RivieraByBuick 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agree about Sanders

  • @empereurjustinien2082
    @empereurjustinien2082 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    One must be an ascended conscience to fully appreciate the beauty of this album.

    • @eeshankumar1211
      @eeshankumar1211 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shut up

    • @coreylapinas1000
      @coreylapinas1000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Terrible emperor tho

    • @kckhen1
      @kckhen1 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No. You don't. And it's comments like this that make people hate the music and its listeners. Some people like yellow. Some prefer green. That's it.

  • @jcyberj
    @jcyberj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In "chaos" there is both order and unity. The master voices got together and explored a new world where no one had, in a formal
    setting, gone before. They met and did what jazz musicians do---they improvised. This is genius music for those who want to either explore the wilderness for new things that challenge convention. In a few words, it was an emotional time and this piece spoke volumes! Things are now similar for as they say, "history does not repeat itself, it rhymes."

  • @karloff604
    @karloff604 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I listen to this when I need a brain cleansing from the alien realm.

  • @ArthurRosch
    @ArthurRosch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    These sounds aren't merely memories; they're etched into my nervous system. Those people had a lot of energy! Archie Shepp barks like a dog! I think they had great fun.

  • @yyydajazz8735
    @yyydajazz8735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Once I thought this was hard to listen. Then I found micheal brecker. Then I found ornette coleman. Now this is smooth blues.

  • @radioactivedragonite2420
    @radioactivedragonite2420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is must be what heavens sound like. Not a gospel choir, but a cacophony of screeching angels singing praise for God.

  • @footwinner1
    @footwinner1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    A minute in and I already have chills through my whole body

  • @mattmacneil3424
    @mattmacneil3424 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    marion brown's solo is so good. the whole thing's so good but his solo really gave me goosebumps.

    • @tylerpob
      @tylerpob ปีที่แล้ว

      His solo(alongside Tyner's) is also my personal favorite of the album. If you listen very closely(and on a higher sound quality version of the album) you can hear the other band members shouting and cheering during certain parts of his solo.

  • @Hagstro
    @Hagstro 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My brain feels like it's tumbling down a stream listening to this...i bet they had a lot of fun making this.

  • @julianbufarull7602
    @julianbufarull7602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Lyrics:
    *[instrumental]*

  • @nitwitromney
    @nitwitromney 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Mind...BLOWN! Don't even know what to say. At first, I thought the density of sound would cause me to bail, but I stuck with it and was fully won over by the end. Thanks for sharing.

  • @oscargill423
    @oscargill423 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's something about this piece which is... deeply relatable. Amidst all the polished music you can create, you've gotta just... make noises with all your heart and strength sometimes.

  • @Jadefire1010
    @Jadefire1010 6 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    I've acquired a taste for this.

    • @signifidelica2819
      @signifidelica2819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      hahaha
      CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO JUPITER

    • @TheZooropaBaby
      @TheZooropaBaby 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      congrats, Spongebob

    • @heliocentric777
      @heliocentric777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      funny and original

    • @Cespinozas
      @Cespinozas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FREE FORM

    • @DreamlessSleepwalker
      @DreamlessSleepwalker 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Cespinozas This isn't free form jazz. He composed this and it is very obvious if you listen to the opening.

  • @DoctorInsomnia-qw7us
    @DoctorInsomnia-qw7us 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Stop interrupting this sacred music with Godless commercials!!!

  • @T.Ramby11
    @T.Ramby11 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Coltrane is to avant-garde jazz what Dizzy was to bebop. Both were great composers, bandleaders, masters on their instruments, and just as important, mentors to the younger musicians, who were following in their footsteps.

    • @brucescott4261
      @brucescott4261 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      tw ...Trane wasn't the very first to play avant garde jazz, PERIOD!!!

    • @T.Ramby11
      @T.Ramby11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bruce Scott I don’t believe I ever said that.

    • @brucescott4261
      @brucescott4261 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@T.Ramby11 ...I didn't say you did!

  • @emilianoturazzi
    @emilianoturazzi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I could listen just to Elvin Jones for hours... especially when he accompanies...
    after 35 years this remains probably my favourite Coltrane's album (this actual version of it - the other one for me had already lost a bit of its fire and freshness)
    and a special mention to John Tchicai brilliantly built and "rational" solo

  • @jerrymahone335
    @jerrymahone335 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This music blew me away when I was 17 years old. it starts out as chaos, but when the unconscious mind kicks in it is pure relaxation

    • @jackson0335
      @jackson0335 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm 17 and this is my first time listening😂 in my band room at school but it's hard to learn even with my headphones over a drummer in the room

    • @sethl9035
      @sethl9035 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stfu

    • @camthesaxman3387
      @camthesaxman3387 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you have to be high on weed to enjoy this?

  • @music4music237
    @music4music237 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is a MASTERPIECE

  • @YaniG88
    @YaniG88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I absolutely love this, and it's killing me because I can't figure out precisely why. It just feels so calming for a busy mind.

    • @jaybrown8807
      @jaybrown8807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Organized chaos. The busy mind has enough different things to keep it occupied but instead of it being scattered it's loosely connected in a magical manner.

  • @craigcollinge9009
    @craigcollinge9009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I heard this as a kid and it stayed with me forever

  • @gardikagigih5704
    @gardikagigih5704 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    just deconstruct the concept of easy listening. Coltrane is absolutely genius, and maestro.

  • @IozziEric
    @IozziEric 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    40 minutes of absolutely Nothing but it's the most sensational Nothing ever. I love the whole of it 💙💚

  • @waynejohanson1083
    @waynejohanson1083 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How many musicians out there do you know that can come up with a 40 minute composition.

  • @jamesc.lockwood3810
    @jamesc.lockwood3810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Archie and Pharoah are the only ones left from this magnificent recording. Dewey Johnson passes in 2018

  • @fede2
    @fede2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wailing brass for 40 minutes. Love it.

  • @jlwender
    @jlwender 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    one of my most cherished albums. MDMA plus headphones plus this is disturbingly fulfilling.

  • @Importantfeelings
    @Importantfeelings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Still have an original vinyl of this somewhere. The personnel ---outstanding.

  • @davidcrago510
    @davidcrago510 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A true Masterpiece...Thank-You.

  • @anraimacconuladh7923
    @anraimacconuladh7923 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    IMHO ....play this when watching the TV news with the sound off .....it is chaotic, brilliant, keening, yearning, sad, exalting ...it is a hymn to man trying to find his way to the creator and to understand.

    • @silas239
      @silas239 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      beautiful way of saying it

    • @music4music237
      @music4music237 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes it's totally mindblowing

    • @music4music237
      @music4music237 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's about the actual ascension process. I'm not sure how far along he was. He made music that captured his voyage.

    • @smallcorner7942
      @smallcorner7942 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Though when I first heard this stuff I interpreted it as desperate shout in regard to the inherent meaninglessness of the universe.

  • @SpiritSquadMTG
    @SpiritSquadMTG 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All I hear is Cowboy Bebop's grand-dad and I'm all the way here for it. Coltrane was an absolute legend.

  • @pedroa.cantero9449
    @pedroa.cantero9449 6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Al modo de las viejas salmodias que cada orante alza, Ascensión contiene la pluralidad de voces de un mismo rezo. Basta con abrir los oídos y dejarse penetrar por tal cacofonía para comprender cómo el caos vibra y es fuente de vida. El despertar en la selva es una explosión vital y por doquier sentimos esa disparidad como invocación que vence a la noche « como si la tierra entera estuviera incandescente de cantos» . Del mismo modo podemos dejarnos penetrar por el vigor de cuantos hicieron esta obra si participamos activamente en su escucha integrando cada salmo en una atonalidad común. ¿Qué hacemos día a día desde que nos despertamos sino lanzar nuestra ilusión en el marasmo de gentes que esperan alguna vez encontrarse en esa ascensión de los humanos por nuevas auroras que nos abran futuros sin tormento?

    • @bebopuser
      @bebopuser 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      caballero nose de donde es usted pero siempre veo sus comentarios y me parecen lo más acertado y lírico (a la vez) que youtube tiene para la comunidad, gracias.

    • @pedroa.cantero9449
      @pedroa.cantero9449 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bebopuser Andoni, gracias por su generosidad

    • @alessandromarchesini9039
      @alessandromarchesini9039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Pedro, are you a mystic man?

    • @victorhugozelayalopez8755
      @victorhugozelayalopez8755 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Amparo, que has fumado?

    • @julianbufarull7602
      @julianbufarull7602 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bue quién era

  • @pizzademuzzarella4390
    @pizzademuzzarella4390 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Me encanta Ascension es una obra de pura belleza que va mas alla de la musica en si, es energia pura, es libertad, es sentimiento llevado al extremo, es infinito. Gracias Trane por tu arte.

  • @lavicho.5184
    @lavicho.5184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    masterpiece, dky i could listen to this all day

  • @3340steve
    @3340steve 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I first heard this record about forty five years ago. It still sounds fresh.

  • @domenceh2596
    @domenceh2596 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very cool song my mommy loves it ❤❤😂😂😢😢🎉🎉😮😊❤

  • @victorkeucker8572
    @victorkeucker8572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The john Coltrane chorus is very impressive and amazing

  • @maxwelltwardowski5400
    @maxwelltwardowski5400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    listening to this for the first time after the first 2020 American presidential debate, and free jazz finally makes sense

  • @WooogaTooga
    @WooogaTooga 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This is my first time listening to this and... I love it!

    • @pinkraven4402
      @pinkraven4402 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love widening my horizons at music but this is some hardcore stuff! :D But I like it too :D For me jazz is often like "I don't get it but I like it anyway" I actually wanna learn more about music theory to see more details in music

    • @isaiahromero9861
      @isaiahromero9861 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@pinkraven4402 for this piece specifically, you don't really need to know music theory to understand it, it's all about how it makes you feel when listening to it and what it represents to you. That's just my philosophy on music in general but that especially goes for this record

    • @pinkraven4402
      @pinkraven4402 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@isaiahromero9861 Technically music theory is not necessary to understand any music, it's a tool

    • @isaiahromero9861
      @isaiahromero9861 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pinkraven4402 that was my point even if I worded it poorly, that's what I meant by "that's just my philosophy of music in general". And I kinda see this record as a rebellion AGAINST the "rules" of music, which is why I said you especially don't need to know music theory to enjoy this album. Music theory is good to know but even musicians don't necessarily need it to make music

  • @ArthurRosch
    @ArthurRosch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I remember John Tchicai's solo as particularly eerie and striking. Haven't found it yet today. I can't believe these musicians weren't arrested for some sonic vandalism law. I'm just kidding, of course.

  • @nyvcr502
    @nyvcr502 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I didn't know that edition II was the first take. I had them both 1and 2. Haven't heard this in years. A mindblower still after all these years. At least to my ears anyway.

  • @syaoranoni54326
    @syaoranoni54326 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Pharoah Sanders' solo here is awesome

    • @bhoare8620
      @bhoare8620 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      there are two that are fucking off the hook unreal

    • @simond.flores8213
      @simond.flores8213 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He shreds it..

    • @TheMetatron333
      @TheMetatron333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like he’s gonna break the sax

  • @spcsh1936
    @spcsh1936 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    weird... it's very chaotic but strangely uplifting at the same time

  • @RanBlakePiano
    @RanBlakePiano 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    M Coy. You are the greatest!

  • @pythonbyte
    @pythonbyte 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    this piece makes sense only when listening in a darkened room with the lights on.

  • @rogerschnack
    @rogerschnack 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Archie Shepp's tenor sax solo (18:50) is something to reveal the whole beauty of the universe...

  • @thomaswoodham2417
    @thomaswoodham2417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When something crazy happens on Ed, Edd, n Eddy.
    (I love this era of Coltrane btw)

  • @kurtralske4026
    @kurtralske4026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    55 years later, we still haven’t caught up. Kind of line the moon landings...how the fck did they do that

  • @eac-ox2ly
    @eac-ox2ly 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Wow. This is so bright and blissful.

  • @punkassparker
    @punkassparker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    June, 2020. I've found myself resting in my wooden chair slouching further and further towards the floor. Strung across the facade of my computer is John Coltrane's Ascension- 40 minutes and 53 seconds of pure insanity. The dangling chain from my torn red trousers tries to pull me below the bottom of my stomach as my heart slinks below my security. Am I on drugs? Alcohol? No, it's not like that. I'm drowning under the weight of expectation. These boxes can't pack me fast enough, I'm stationary.

  • @gibberconfirm166
    @gibberconfirm166 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love Pharoah Sanders comes in like a bar code. 11:42

  • @bertholdplohmann6988
    @bertholdplohmann6988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We all should remember once when John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy visited Donaueschinger Musiktage of Neue Musik the classical way they got a short glimps, when Karl-Heinz Stockhausen was working with his descendants, just from the door of the music hall. When they saw and heared how they and especially him were working out the notified music, just Trane asked Dolphy: "What do you think. Are they musicians?" What the real answer has been, I can´t remember may be something like whatever it may be....
    But two things we should remember: first, the word "atonal" is really from the impuls of New Music from the classical european notified tradition, which on it´s own had forgotten it´s own tradition of improvisation, like people, as an great examble Beethoven and others, really practised.
    On the other hand Stockhausen has been a very strict mind making composer, who has been completly against of any type of free improvisation.
    Second, John William Coltrane couldn´t have become such a great, great musician, if there would not have been such great genius like Pablo Picasso or Salvatore Dali or even Jean-Paul Sartre and so on and so on. (What´s about Mahalia Jackson´s devtional songs full of tears, but also full of peace, love, joy, compassion and devotion. Or the godesses like Maria Callas, and Pandit Ravi Shankar, and Maurice Andre´ and all others all others all others even up to John F. Kennedy / Dr. Martin Luther King, literature, art work, architecture, food diat, religious believe, modern science, science fiction, aeroplane, sputnic hierarchies and apollo programms up to India Maharishi Mahesh Yogis)
    Picasso in his later years as we all know, got mostly his inspiration from ancient african art works (may be like Shakuhatchi music nippon sweets or Fujiyama rice cracker believers).
    Me as aperson, when Ascension (Jesus Christ ascended as Lord Christ) was produced, I´ve been only 6 years old young ignorant boy from a very simple family and, my god i knew nothing about music or even jazz or even saxophone players.
    So, I thank god and also my parents, that I´ve been initiated some years later around the year 1969-1970, through a television feature of the great Leonard Feather about the music of Miles Davis in live performance, where the solo of John Coltrane knocked me out, blowing the devils thrust on my mind and my soul and my body just out of my sight, and that it was. From there everything started to grow.
    The same thing I experienced all around the same time value, with His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi´s visitation reaching at London main station accompanied by John Lennon.
    Through the blessings of Maharishi´s Guru Dev, also I had later on the opportunity to serve throughout years of my life one of the greatest sitar masters of the 20th century Pandit Tribhuvan Nath Nagar from the Benares Hindu University in Varanasi India.
    And for heavans sake, the greatest moment in my unfamous life as an ignorant man, but also established in the light of the almighty Lord himself, who Maharishi´s Guru Dev has been, when His Holiness blessed this inpure guy in a moment of total bliss with his JAI GURU DEV.
    For me, it has been the personal initiation of the Maharishi Vedic Pandit Programm in the west, because, there has been one of this great guys, who purified the path of Maharishi throughout the former roman catholic monastery nearby Vlodrop in Holland, where now really is available the sweet taste of utopia for all human leadership throughout the whole globe.
    So what ups.
    Be wide awake about the universe and make it sound like he want´s it to be done by you and not like you want it as a little single individual diety in the cosmos or elsewhere. Just he created us before we have got from him or her or it the wish to follow the demand to create a heavan on earth by doing doings as a human being embodying HIM, but first from within!
    Mister B.G.P.

  • @samferguson230
    @samferguson230 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A random note on the trumpet playing: Hubbard's tone and lines are just incredible, but I find Dewey Johnson's playing here especially fascinating. The high melodic flurries and his sense of time/drama/dynamics are wild as all hell.

  • @arca5575
    @arca5575 ปีที่แล้ว

    After not going to the bathroom for three days i took the dryest shit of my life listening to this, i can't describe the emotions and feelings that i was going thru in that moment. 10/10

  • @ddotcarter06
    @ddotcarter06 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is for the TRUE jazz purists - yes indeed!

  • @lapdawg60
    @lapdawg60 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This makes me remember a guitarist I knew about 40 years ago who said to me after hearing this "...well, now I see why it's 'free'" I guess he didn't care for it. :>)

  • @ripoffscoots8159
    @ripoffscoots8159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was able to listen to this really easy after being up for 18 hours without sleep came back to it now and it sounds like it did before my brain was fried.

    • @isaiahromero9861
      @isaiahromero9861 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm currently listening to this sleep deprived at 6 am, and I have to say, I think you're onto something. Maybe that was the intended way to listen to it because I usually can't make it past 5 minutes of this record but rn I'm absolutely loving it lol

  • @andrewfoster883
    @andrewfoster883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Artists pushing themselves to the boundaries of the possible

  • @diskilleur
    @diskilleur 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    J'ai la chance d'avoir cet album magnifique en vinyle edition 1 de 66 !!

  • @metallothionein9
    @metallothionein9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    For STARCHYLD77 Maybe when one drops acid one sees and feels similarly to what this music does. But you don't have to drop acid to produce work like this. This work came from Coltrane's mind and his heart. This was a logical development of Coltrane's musical trajectory. The whole work was keyed to a minor blues. He wrote out a lot of what he wanted in the studio and then gave the ,musicians instructions. He played a line and said he wanted everybody to play that in the ensemble. Then he said he wanted crescendi and decrescendi after each solo. In the collective improvisation sections Coltrane had four different sets of music with four notes in each set. When he wanted group improvisation on the first set he would hold up one finger. If he wanted improvisation on number 4 he would hold up four fingers etc. These are a few aspects of the music that he outlined with at all times allowing for freedom in musical expression. Archie Shepp likened it to what action painters do. It definitely is not what we are accustomed to hearing. Coltrane had obviously thought a lot about what he wanted to do and he wanted to take us someplace we had not been before which he definitely did. The people in the studio were screaming.

    • @Formula-602
      @Formula-602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I heard he did an LP..while tripping....might it be this?

    • @metallothionein9
      @metallothionein9 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Formula-602 That is pure mythology. I talked to musicians who were on this session. They describe a Coltrane who was very busy with the music and the musicians. There were four sets of notes. Coltrane would indicate which set on which a musician should improvise by holding up 1-4 fingers. No one told me he was high. He was very active and engaged with the production of the music.

    • @Formula-602
      @Formula-602 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ok..thx….@@metallothionein9

  • @thibaudmennillo
    @thibaudmennillo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is ART

  • @normdavis3450
    @normdavis3450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I stumbled upon this after listening to some Lester Young and Sweets Edison, what a treat! I have seen the light - this is WAY before it’s time...

    • @jamesc.lockwood3810
      @jamesc.lockwood3810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is so far ahead of its time that we have not caught up yet!

  • @andreali729
    @andreali729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No words can describe this ! 😁

  • @lsvk263
    @lsvk263 6 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    where can I gat a backing track for this?

    • @Mayombepaula
      @Mayombepaula 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      LOL

    • @pinkraven4402
      @pinkraven4402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      In hell xd

    • @LeoFazio
      @LeoFazio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      In heaven

    • @pinkraven4402
      @pinkraven4402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@LeoFazio Haha xD

    • @blacksantaria3642
      @blacksantaria3642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      NO BACKING TRACK , LEAVE THE BLACK MASTERS MASTERPIECE ALONE .

  • @DanielePasini_flute
    @DanielePasini_flute 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Un CD assolutamente fantastico

  • @sandrosilva1798
    @sandrosilva1798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Jazz e música dodecafônica são sublimes esteticamente.

  • @hal9000lovesdaisy
    @hal9000lovesdaisy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    We did a three minute version of this song in my band. We called it something else, though.

  • @iadros10
    @iadros10 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this is great thank you!

  • @DW-zy4zr
    @DW-zy4zr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When are they going to stop tuning up! And I love Coltrane... A million miles from Wise One.

  • @aeoization
    @aeoization 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    thanks for uploading - timeless piece

  • @halasimov1362
    @halasimov1362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is awesome!!

  • @peterhaley2836
    @peterhaley2836 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    thanks for the upload, Coltrane & company's music itself is a tremendous upload!!!!!!