Jazz for aficionados

Today's Listen:

John Coltrane  --  LUSH LIFE

See, he wasn't always lost in Andromeda.  A Rudy Van Gelder engineered production on Prestige Records.  The cover does not mention this, guess that came later with Blue Note.

from the you-tube screen:
"Lush Life contains Coltrane’s first recordings as sole leader, his initial date fronting a pianoless trio, and one of his first extended readings of a ballad, Billy Strayhorn’s resplendent title track. We also hear him at the helm of a quartet and quintet, featuring pianist Red Garland, with trumpeter Donald Byrd added to “Lush Life.” Coltrane and jazz would never be the same!" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccHkX_M9ajQ   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFj8cfYEt8k   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyGMu62BYCU

Cheers

The DVD, "I Called Him Morgan" gripped my attention from the first minute to the last. There were nothing but good people in this DVD; I could relate to all the people and events. In many ways it was the life I lived, I’ve never been a musician but I was always in lounges where they played, and had musician friends.

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I wont say anymore and ruin it for anyone who wants to see it; highly recommended.

frogman  Thanks for the clarification, Maybe if I can find the time  I can delve a little deeper into the article and it might change my assessment of the author.  When one looks at it from the perspective of the many labels and recordings that van Gelder engineered You do get a sense of how important He was in the documentation Of the jazz music of that time. And  We should feel lucky that these smaller labels flourished at that time and the music was made available.
In research regarding the lp
"Somethin Else"  I found a recording date of March 9th 1958. BTW   Cannonball did not write any of the tunes On the album.  Of the six Tunes miles wrote won the title song, Hank Jones another and Nat Adderley a third one. . The other three were standards.
  Your points are well taken. It's an intriguing question. Obviously miles was signed to Columbia Records by this time. ? And probably wouldn't have received permission to be the leader on another labels album. Miles also did not take  a backseat to anyone at this point in his career  And would not have taken well To receiving directions about how to "play" on an album.
Not that that would have happened because I have never seen anything in writing Or a video interview with a jazz musician where they were told What or how to play.  In fact, the opposite is true.
But it still is Cannonballs name at the top  And until someone close to the recording / production says otherwise, I guess we'll have to accept that.

"Lush Life"
Studio album by John Coltrane
Released Mid January 1961[1]
Recorded May 31, 1957 (#5)
August 16, 1957 (#1-3)
January 10, 1958 (#4)
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Genre Jazz
Length 36:39
Label Prestige


My "Trane" contribution is;


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yagO50i6O5E&list=RDAx-wDHE7-Ik&index=2



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkY_zTKzPCY



This was recorded in 63 - 64, and it illustrates how much "Trane" advanced or revolutionized his music in 6 or 7 short years from the time he recorded "Lush Life"

Today’s Listen:

John Coltrane -- NEWPORT ’63

Excellent Notes by Francis Davis. The notes alone are worth the price of the CD. Good details about Coltrane and the sidemen. Amazing how much just pure chance plays in Jazz. Being late for work can change the lineup of some of the greatest Jazz recordings. How Coltrane was very impressed by Cannonball’s ’Jive Samba’, and said he wanted to do something ’for the people’, hence, ’Favorite Things’, ’Chim Chim Cheree’, ’Greensleeves’ etc........

If these were for ’the people’, who was the rest his output for? :) The good folks in the Orion Nebula?

Speaking of moving on, contrast this to the original 1960 version of ’Favorite Things’. Even McCoy is breaking out. As the notes state, "Coltrane was constitutionally incapable of just going through the motions".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCPCok5l_s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQN-nYOqvk

on the CD, but from a 1961 date at the Village Vanguard. Roy Haynes and Eric Dolphy on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6mwzSYevU8

Cheers