John Coltrane - One Down One Up: Live at the Half Note
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Artist: John ColtraneEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Impulse Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Introduction And Announcements
- One Down, One Up
- Announcements
- Afro-Blue
- Introduction And Announcements
- Song Of Praise
- Announcements
- My Favorite Things
Music reviews of One Down One Up: Live at the Half Note
Music Review: Outstanding live performance by the late John Coltrane 4tet
Rating: 5 Stars
Thanks a million for such treasures. Thirty-eight years after John Coltrane's death, it's still possible to discover new music by this master. And what a music!!!
Here is the original John Coltrane Quartet,with McCoy Tyner,piano,Jimmy Garrison,bass and Elvin Jones,drums.Shortly after,Rashied Ali would take Elvin' chair in the quartet.The music you'll hear in this two CDs set was taped at the Half Note,a small club in New York City ( with an audience of some 130 listeners;just try to imagine Louis Armstrong,or Duke Ellington,or Count Basie,at the peak of their career,playing for such a small group of persons!!!).The first set (CD n°1) was recorded on March 26,1965,the second one on May 7,1965.The result is one of Trane's most amazing live performances.Far better,for me,as the great "Seattle concert" or the "live in Japan" 4 CD set.As great as the colossal "Village Vanguard" 1961 live sessions,now available on five CDs.
You'll only listen to four tunes on these two CDs.Only four.The reason is that Trane blow extented versions of these themes: the shorter is "Afro blue"("only" 12 minutes long);"Song of praise" is 20 minutes long,"my favorite thing"(a tune Coltrane played regularely for more than six years) is 23 minutes long;and "One down,one up" is nearly 28 minutes long.
"One down,one up" surely is the masterpiece of these two nights.And it may simply be one of Trane's greatest improvised efforts we can listen to.To all who may be afraid by Trane's music during the two last years of his short life (1926-1967),I have to say that this very long interpretation of "one down,one up",as the three other tunes played here,is much easier to listen to than his "Seattle", "Japan"or "Village Vanguard again" concerts.Of course,if you've never heard a John Coltrane record,it may not be the best way to discover his music.You could be afraid of what your ears will transmit to your brain.But if you're grown accustomed to his music,this will sound as an achievement and a kind of perfection in the work of a man who created new things every day in his life.He never could play twice the same things.
"Afro blue",a tune written by Mongo Santamaria which received lyrics by the underrated and great Oscar Brown Jr (1926-2005),is magnificently played here.I always thought that the 1963 version,recorded live at Birdland,was the greatest;now this new version can match with the other one.And it's far better to me than the other versions recorded at Seattle and in Japan.Coltrane's solo is more relaxed,yet more creative.McCoy Tyner's solo is a masterful one.There is another great version of "Afro blue" in the magical "Live Trane" 7 CD set.
The May 7 broadcast (both dates were recorded for radio) starts with "Song of praise".The Coltrane Quartet would record this piece again ten days later at Rudy Van Gelder's studio.This version is ten minutes longer.Another model of perfection.During his very long solo effort,Coltrane never plays twice the same thing.New ideas come as water in the river.
And finally...finally,there is one of the most extraordinary versions Coltrane did on the old "my favorite things".23 minutes of very great music.A masterpiece you'll discover by yourself.23 minutes of fascinating,haunting music.
Of course,I wouldn't advise the new listener to start his discovery of Coltrane's music with this two CD set.You need to be accustomed with his music to appreciate.But if you already own his Atlantic works,and some of his earlier Impulse efforts ("live at Birdland","with Duke Ellington","Coltrane","Village Vanguard" or "Africa brass",then you're ready for this trip into Trane's cosmic music.And if you dig it,then you're OK for "Seattle","Ascension","Village Vanguard again",or the "Olatunji concert".
This issue of these legendary Half Note concerts may be the greatest thing that happened this year in the history of jazz.Another one is the terrific 1957 Carnegie Hall concert of the Thelonious Monk Quartet,with... John Coltrane;another gem recently issued on Blue Note.I hope that in the next years,we'll have the chance to listen to new material by this immense musician,who created between 1960 and 1967 some of the most important music of all times.
Thank a million to Alice Coltrane,Michelle Coltrane and Ravi Coltrane for giving the world the privilege to listen to these treasures.
Description of One Down One Up: Live at the Half Note
Coltrane and his legendary band--McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums--regularly played at downtown New York's Half Note in the mid 1960s. The group used the club's flexible set times to accommodate Coltrane's musical suites and far-reaching improvisations. As Half Note founder Mike Canterino said, "I just wanted the music and to let the guys go ahead and do what they want to do."The importance of these influential performances has grown throughout the years as musicians--especially saxophone players--passed around bootleg and lo-fi copies taken from the 1965 radio broadcast. It was a time when Coltrane was pushing his musical boundaries, and one can hear the evolution of his style on these recordings. As his son Ravi Coltrane says, "You can hear everything that came before and begin to hear where the music was going."The music captured on One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note features the songs "One Down, One Up" (perhaps the highlight of the collection), "Afro Blue," "Song of Praise," and "My Favorite Things." The unparalleled performances showcase a band filled with fiery passion and a master at the crossroads of his musical path.One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note features liner notes from journalist and author Ashley Kahn, who wrote A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album as well as the upcoming The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. Also included is an essay by the CD's producer, Ravi Coltrane.Having recharged his legendary status on 2005's spectacular Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall, a previously unheard "lost" recording from 1957, the late John Coltrane solidifies his refreshed standing with a new generation of jazz fans with this exciting discovery by his own quartet. Recorded in 1965 at New York's Half Note club, One Down, One Up isn't as stunning a find as the Monk album. Its recorded sound, taken from a radio broadcast, is pretty raw and, whereas the Monk album represents a rare meeting of these giants, there are other live albums from the mid-'60s by the Coltrane four. None, however, are as good as this one, which finds the tenor and soprano saxophonist making magnificent mountains out of modal molehills through his relentless surrounding and reshaping of notes, never coming up for air. You don't listen to epic performances like the 28-minute title track, 23-minute rendition of "My Favorite Things" (his bread and butter tune) and 20-minute "Song of Praise" so much as immerse yourself in them. You simply need to experience them for their rising intensity and spiritual weight, for their earthy beauty, for the band's locking gears: pianist McCoy Tyner's ferocious hammered notes, drummer Elvin Jones' whirlwind figures, bassist Jimmy Garrison's eloquent lines. Thriving on melody, which he would abandon in the sonically assault live final phase of his sadly shortened career, Coltrane keeps listeners in the palm of his hand even as he pushes into unchartered territory. --Lloyd Sachs
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