Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65

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Actor: John Coltrane
Brand: Jazz
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Best of, Black & White, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Jazz Icons

DVD Reviews of Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65

DVD Review: Trane lives
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a very well-done DVD with three different groups led by Coltrane, including the classic Trane/Tyner/Garrison/Jones group that broke new ground in jazz. Material ranges from Miles-era Green Dolphin Street and Monk's Hackensack from concerts in Germany in 1960 and 1961 to Vigil, Naima and My Favorite Things in 1965 -- and you can hear the progression in harmonic complexity from the more traditional sound of the Wynton Kelly/Paul Chambers/Jimmy Cobb group of 1961 to the incredible Tyner/Garrison/Jones group.

Highlights: Everytime We Say Goodbye, Naima; great sound quality.

If you're a Coltrane fan, you'll want this DVD

DVD Review: 95 minutes of utopia....but
Summary: 5 Stars

If only the one more video shhot of the Antibes festival 1965 was on here as well they play and you can see them do A love Supreme then this dvd would of been one with the creator...dvd can fit plenty of more minutes...look for it on the INTERNET it's there and great quality...why it didn't finish this incredible dvd I don't know
Also we need more Miles and Monk dvd's. All of em.

DVD Review: Impressions of my favorite things in Hackensack
Summary: 5 Stars

If you're new to Coltrane, this DVD gives not only brilliant (and well filmed) music performances, but also an opportunity to catch Trane as he develops his musical ideas; first with members of Miles Davis 5 (sans Davis), than with two of his own groups, featuring the additional pleasure of adding Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson to the first (and most "conservative" modern jazz performance)...

Coltrane obviously worked hard in this period (from 1960 to 1965), growing in width and depth of musicality, working with other giants of jazz - the second televised performance features Eric Dolphy who complements the leader beatifully, as does McCoy Tyner on piano and Elvin Jones on drums for last two sets... Two brilliant versions of "My Favorite Things", "Impressions", subtle interplay with Stan Getz on first session... The highlights just pile up! If you like Trane you should own this, if you want to meet Coltrane you should own it...

There's tenor and soprano sax, Dolphy adds some lovely and intelligent flute to the mix and the rhythm sections are amazing; the first group seems a bit conservative from the jazz development point of view, but they are masters in what they do...

Another Jazz Icons winner!

p.s.
Norman Granz produced first two sessions, greatly aiding development of Trane's fan base in Europe... And we all know how useful it is for an American jazz giant to have a fan base in Europe - the history of jazz has learned us that American market too often closes its doors to old-style giants and doesn't open its doors fast enough for ground-breakers and restless searchers of new paths (Coltrane is, of course, from the latter category: he didn't live long enough to be conservative and, may I make a wild guess, he would continue and continue searching if he had lived to be 80).

DVD Review: Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live '60, '61 & '65
Summary: 5 Stars

Fantastic performances and exceptional music - a musical genius on stage. Also very educational for young saxophone players. A very enjoyable DVD well worth its price.
Information leaflet was very good, too.
I was completely happy with my purchase, including information on the product, payment procedure and shipping.

DVD Review: Must Have
Summary: 5 Stars

I wrote a review of this DVD when I first got it but somehow it got deleted so I will reveiw it again. This is a must have DVD not only for Coltrane fans but for everyone in the whole world!! It is absolutely essential. Don't even think about it...just get it! The music is Coltrane at his best and the black & white footage is very artfully done.

Description of Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65

Jazz Icons: John Coltrane provides an epic 95-minute overview of a true giant of 20th-century music. Three separate shows reveal Coltrane's ascending creative arc from hard bop innovator as a member of the Miles Davis Quartet in 1960 to consummate bandleader in 1961 to unrivalled jazz visionary in 1965. This DVD not only features Trane's classic quartet with Elvin Jones (drums), Jimmy Garrison (bass) and McCoy Tyner (piano), but also spotlights him onstage with other jazz legends including Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy and Oscar Peterson. Includes mind-blowing versions of his signature tunes "My Favorite Things" and "Impressions".

As Ashley Kahn points out in his informative liner notes, there aren't many visual recordings of jazz giant John Coltrane in circulation--or, possibly, in existence. In capturing the saxophonist in three different phases in his too-brief career, this installment in the inestimable Jazz Icons video series performs a valuable service. The 92-minute DVD includes a 1960 performance in Dusseldorf, Germany, featuring Coltrane on tenor with his mates from Miles Davis's rhythm section, jamming on Miles's tunes; a 1961 performance in Baden Baden, Germany, with Coltrane on soprano and tenor, and Eric Dolphy on alto sax and flute, backed by pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman, and super-drummer Elvin Jones; and a surpassingly intense 1965 Belgium performance by "the Classic Quartet," with Jimmy Garrison replacing Workman. The black-and-white footage, some of it from broadcast sources, is sometimes striking, sometimes too shadowy (the dated camera effects, while evincing a certain period charm, still don't help). And a rare meeting of Coltrane and tenor great Stan Getz at the end of the Dusseldorf set is compromised by the poor miking of Getz. But we'll put up with such imperfections to hear the primal force of Trane's playing cut through the years, on songs ranging from "Autumn Leaves," to "Impressions," to "My Favorite Things." Trane lives. --Lloyd Sachs

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