John Coltrane - Live Trane: The European Tours
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Artist: John ColtraneEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Music Label: Pablo
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Impressions
- My Favorite Things
- Blue Train
- Naima
- Impressions
- My Favorite Things
- Mr. P.C.
- Miles' Mode
- My Favorite Things
- Norman Grantz Introduction
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- The Inch Worm
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- Mr. P.C.
- My Favorite Things
- The Inch Worm
- Mr. P.C.
- Naima
- Traneing In
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Impressions
- Swedish Introduction
- Traneing In
- Mr. P.C.
- Naima
- The Promise
- Spiritual
- Impressions
- I Want To Talk About You
- My Favorite Things
- Mr. P.C.
- Lonnie's Lament
- Naima
- Chasin' The Trane
- My Favorite Things
- Afro Blue
- Cousin Mary
- I Want To Talk About You
- Impressions
Music reviews of Live Trane: The European Tours
Music Review: STILL on the edge
Rating: 5 Stars
Six years into my ongoing my "love affair" with this music, I would add these points:
(1) RE: those three controversial "Birdland" tracks (from March 1962 ?), with Eric Dolphy. The acoustic is DEFINITELY that of a small-to-medium-sized club, certainly not any of the concert hall venues chosen by Norman Granz for these tours. Yes, it remains possible that the venue was some European club during the 1961 tour - falling between two of the Granz-produced concerts. (Assuming that they were recorded in Europe, the year would have to be 1961, because Dolphy was not featured in the 1962 or '63 tours. Although, discographies have him occasionally appearing live with Coltrane, in the U.S., as late as December 31, 1963.)
But the out-of-tune piano sounds, to my ears, like the same miserable 'ax' heard on the Impulse-recorded tracks of October 8, 1963 on LIVE AT BIRDLAND - of course, even more grossly out-of-tune by the later date. In any case, I STILL don't believe, for one minute, that these tracks were recorded with the same Granz-owned-or-managed equipment as all the others in this set. "Not no way, not no how." (Sorry.)
Still, as I wrote before : thanks to the new transfers in this box, these three "Birdland" tracks are "truly LISTENABLE for the first time," at least enough so that one can get into the MUSIC. And in the end, little else matters.
(2) The "official" track listing has two versions of "Mr. P.C." as being recorded in Paris on November 17, 1962. Since the newly published COLTRANE ON COLTRANE confirms that he played two concerts, in Paris, on that day, this listing could very well be correct. But it is highly unlikely that such a long piece would have been played TWICE in the same concert. These concerts were NOT multi-set club dates, i.e., featuring several verisons of the same tunes on the same "gig."
(3) The long (25 minute) version of MY FAVORITE THINGS, purportedly from 1962, is also claimed to eminate from the Paris Concert of November 1, 1963. The overall tempo suggests an earlier date than the fall of 1963: this tune (i.e., Trane's version of it) got faster and faster, over time, and none of the other surviving "Classic Quartet" versions, from the fall of '63 onward, seem to be this slow (relatively speaking, of course). Still, Trane's solo is WILDER than any of the '61 or '62 versions. And McCoy Tyner, on piano, seems to anticipate some of the ideas that would blossom on the Berlin FAVORITE THINGS of November 2, 1963 (i.e., the following night, if this performance really is from November 1, in Paris). So it's still a mystery.
(4) The October 22, 1963 FAVORITE THINGS, from Stockholm, now vies with the Berlin version as my favorite FAVORITE THINGS. It may even be an ideal introduction to Coltrane, in general : its length is under 14 minutes (i.e., very close to the timing of the 1960 Atlantic studio original), but at a far more lively tempo, so everyone covers more ground. Not least Trane: during his second solo (just near 9:00), he seems to feel the need to come down off a note which the soprano sax may not be designed to produce; so he takes matters into his own hands, and, with "false fingering" and creative embouchure use, reaches that note, anyway. McCoy Tyner's solo is (IMHO) his most fleet, elegant, and bittersweetly modal among the six F. THINGS in this box. Finally, Jimmy Garrison DANCES on the bass with deceptive, bedrock strength, and Elvin Jones radiates the power of a nuclear reactor AND the finesse of a souflee prepared by Julia Child. (How's THAT for mixed metaphors?) Yes, the Berlin version may be even more deeply lyrical, but we are lucky to have both versions - and several more besides.
To use a hopelessly dated, "jazz afficianado" word, DIG.
Description of Live Trane: The European Tours
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.The music on this seven-CD set was recorded during three European tours, capturing Coltrane live as he was becoming the most compelling, most influential musician in jazz. His working relationships with pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones were already solidly in place on the 1961 tour, which also had Eric Dolphy on reeds and Reggie Workman on bass. For the '62 and '63 tours, the classic quartet with Tyner, Jones, and bassist Jimmy Garrison had found its form. There are multiple performances of Coltrane's favorite vehicles here, tunes to which he could return nightly with different results: "Impressions," the springboard to some of his most explosive tenor explorations; "My Favorite Things," the soprano signature that could summon floating bliss or coiled intensity; "Mr. P.C.," a rapid-fire trip through his evolving harmonic approaches. There's fascinating contrast, too, between some of the same pieces played by the different bands. The earlier group is more fluid, and it's extraordinary to hear the added stimulus Coltrane gets from Dolphy's cascading invention. There are other gems here as well, like "Lonnie's Lament" and "Spiritual," original anthems that Coltrane imbued with a keening, magisterial power, and the equally beautiful balladry of "I Want to Talk About You."
This is a treasure trove for those who love Coltrane, a fine complement to the Impulse studio and live recordings of the same period. Roughly half of this music, generally the later material, has been available on a series of Pablo CDs. Much of the earlier material has surfaced on bootlegs, usually with very inferior sound and an absence of recording data. Live Trane is the first time this great material has received the treatment it deserves. --Stuart Broomer
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