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.
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!
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.
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!!!!!!!
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!!!!
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
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!
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!!
...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!
Every time I listen to this performance. A million thoughts run through my mind. And it always ends with one major thought that the Africans who were brought to this country are special people and their greatness can never be denied throughout this entire universe.
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.
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)
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.
Nathan, I couldn't have said it any better, Bravo!!!!!!!!
Yes man
I know. It’s just…ineffable. But you made a good shot at attempting.
“Something something, architecture and dancing”. - Declan P McManus.
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.
Great perspective, thank you for this...you are a thinker. It's even more impressive what Trane achieved with all of that you mentioned in mind.
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.
One of the greatest performances recorded with a toaster
This film might just be the most precious thing on TH-cam.
This is an important document. It gives a sense of what it was like to hear Coltrane live. Powerful stuff.
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.
The version on "Coltrane Live at Birdland" (1963) is truly the greatest live jazz ever recorded, a brilliant, landmark achievement.
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 is my favorite coltrane ballad in live stockholm 1962, filmed by amatörfotograf.
is this a one off or was there more? Is this recording included on any CD?
@@robertstone8852 Sorry Robert this is the only one l think! I don’t no!
I want to listen to this while I pass away watching the memories of my life.
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 LOL, a serious "trane head" no doubt!!!
+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!
Mikael Karlsson Thanks for the info; still, very cool.
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.
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!!!!!!!
PURE LOVE!!!!!!!
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!!!!
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
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!
is there anyway i can get my hands on Cotraneolgy, I would love to hear other recordings of this tune from the same tour
John Coltrane , Tom Jobim & Vinicius de Moraes ... completely changed my life ... Everything !
happy birthday, john coltrane!
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!!
one of my favorite things on youtube
2:24. AAAAAAAAH THAT FUCKING LICK MAN
Mostly just E- triad outlined against Bb maj. Really just Dmaj over Bbmaj, which is a coltrane-ism. Nice shit.
~~~ Wonderful, Marvelous !!!
I had no idea this wonderful song was written by Mr. B, Billy Eckstine. Coltrane went on to make it his own, thank you to both these geniuses.
...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...!!!
brilliant! So deep. I love
The same brillence found on his Ballads album.
Gregg Streicher damn it its brilliance BRILLIANCE!!
Thanks for posting this and thank you so much to the person who recorded this in 1962 😊
Trane, my one and only ❤
If there is a God then his name is John William Coltrane!
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!
+Leonard Seed there's one in san francisco too (at least there used to be).
La versión de Riu Fukui también es increíble, ambas me gustan, pero personalmente prefiero la de Riu, tengo sentimientos encontrados con su versión
Every time I listen to this performance. A million thoughts run through my mind. And it always ends with one major thought that the Africans who were brought to this country are special people and their greatness can never be denied throughout this entire universe.
Gorgeous
Great video Acoustic recording makes it even better.
We want to talk about Train
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.
GOLD
The same brillence found on his Ballads album.
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.
came here from Ryo Fukai didn't know this was a coltrane cover
The best in humanity 🙂
By far the best recording of this masterpiece.
Yes! Along with Trane's other recordings of it!
Try "Coltrane Live at Birdland"
I've rarely seen such a suitable person for blowing tenor saxophone !!
Unique Sound & Style...Only John Coltrane^^
Incredible ❤😂🎉
Each film document of J.C. is like an 'apparition'... Do you feel his aura ?
i gonna cry dis iz gold ma frenz.
WE ARE BLESSED
Indeed!!!!!!!!!
I truly would like to be one of those 5 who liked not, hence I would not spend hours and hours listening to this beauty!!
So great 👍
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)
lord have mercy....!
2:22
❤❤❤❤
speechless
Thanks Mister Amazing, thanks
حاجة نادرة بزاف ❤️
From movie “Detroit
素敵
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How can a man reveal so much of his beautiful soul.My Lawd!
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