John Coltrane quartet. Amazing live performance. November 1962 bootleg

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• MA

  @martyliggett4818 · 3 years ago

  Coltrane, one of the greatest musicians that ever lived on the planet.

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• BE

  @bertilholmgren8880 · 3 years ago

  Peace and love- that’s what Elvin wrote when I asked him to sign an album (Africa/Brass)

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• MA

  @martyliggett4818 · 3 years ago

  It would have been a shame if the world had missed the opportunity to hear this performance by Coltrane and company. All praises be to the Creator.

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• CA

  @cavaleermountaineer3839 · 3 years ago

  I've been to listening the god play "My Favorite Things" for 30 years and there's always something new. It's amazing. Such relentless genius.

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• NE

  @newhousemusic007 · 5 days ago

  Reminds me of a jazz Christmas.

• KE

  @kevintownsend3840 · 2 years ago

  What a sound by a group of world class musicians. John is as usual a guided missle and right on target.Elvin Jones alway in the pocket

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• HO

  @Horsemam3190 · 2 years ago

  Coltrane conceived of and performed Alabama in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963—an attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four African-American girls: Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11).<br><br>Bill Cole, in his 1977 book, John Coltrane, states that Coltrane composed &quot;Alabama&quot; as a memorial to the four victims. The date of the first recording – November 18, 1963 – was sixty-four days after the bombing and four days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cole also asserts that the melodic line &quot;was developed from the rhythmic inflections of a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King. <br><br>Coltrane, Tyner, Garrison, and Jones, again, recorded &quot;Alabama&quot; – along with &quot;Afro Blue&quot; and &quot;Impressions&quot; – for a 30-minute TV episode of Jazz Casual, hosted by Ralph J. Gleason. The group recorded it December 7, 1963, at KQED TV in San Francisco. &nbsp;The episode was broadcast February 19, 1964, on WNET TV in New York, and February 23, 1964, on KQED TV in San Francisco. &nbsp;The quartet had been performing a twelve-day gig at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco, nightly, from November 26, 1963, through December 8, 1963.

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• MR

  @mre_physvids · 7 months ago

  Here in February 2026. If we sent this to aliens hell bent on annihilating us, they’d change their minds knowing at least a few of us were capable of such things.

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• DA

  @dantean · 6 months ago

  John Coltrane: the embodied spirit<br>McCoy Tyner: the left hand from the planet 12<br>Elvin Jones: madman<br>Jimmy Garrison: holding it all down<br>Best &quot;Things&quot; I&apos;ve ever heard--and I&apos;ve been hearing &apos;em for 55 years+ now!

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• PA

  @patricktiglao · 3 years ago

  In two beats I could tell that Elvin was going to slay this set.

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• CR

  @crieverytim · 3 years ago

  Such a beautiful thing to have happened. &nbsp; Four men who loved eachother, loved jazz and sound.

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• SZ

  @szymonwawruch2414 · 1 month ago

  One day I found this in my fathers collection.

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