Live Trane: The European Tours

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Total Tracks: 39   Total Length: 489:00

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Fred Kaplan

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04.22.11
Over eight hours of the sax giant onstage and in his prime.
2001 | Label: Fantasy / Pablo

Taken from the tapes of Coltrane's European tours in 1963-65, featuring the classic quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones) with Eric Dolphy added on, this is blazing stuff. Coltrane was on the edge of taking his next leap — still playing his standards but extending the experimentation, stretching the harmonies, accelerating the tempo, to the edge. Dolphy, the natural successor to Charlie Parker, was his ideal co-pilot. If this is just too much music, [i][url="/album/10603/10603450"]Bye, Bye Blackbird[/url][/i], taken from the same period, is the next-best.

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128kbps only!

csik

I agree with ppitta, they need to upgrade the bitrate of this. Doesn't emusic usually give a warning when something is only 128kbps?

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A Must Have

Drum4JC

This 7 disc set is a must have for Coltrane fans. Any live Coltrane is worth having, but these sets are superb. The band was really at it's height here. I only wish we could get liner notes for this!

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Beware �¢���� 128 kbps

ppitta

Great music, but looks like this has been downgraded without warning to 128kbps, When I downloaded it on 6 Aug 09 the download manager thought it was going to be 670mb, but it turned out to be 470, and since nobody else has mentioned this issue, looks like it has been changed. Sad and disrespectful to the music, and to customers for not indicating the low bitrate.

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Great Jazz

hiddenfire88

It's all such great blues-drenched intense swinging stuff, the best recordings of this band I believe. If you want to just try/hear a few tracks, I'd recommend "Spiritual" and "Impressions" from Disc 5 as especially good, and "Afro Blue" on Disc 7. Those and some other tracks from this are on "Afro Blue Impressions" which came available in the 70's and is a great collection (and is here also).

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Any of It!

Funknik

These versions of these songs are all so great, you can start wherever you like -- the versions are all different and special in their own way. Whatever you do, don't miss out on "Afro Blue" though, it's incredible. There's a lot of gold to mine here, but even if you can't make up your mind, there's only 39 tracks total -- that's a lot of music for a low, low price!!!

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A fan, not a fanatic

Brooklynnative

How many versions of the same song does one need? You get 5 versions of Impressions and 6 of My Favorite Things. Anybody have some recommendations on which tracks to download?

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woooooonderful

wonderman20042

that's the best of jazz wow i have never heard such beautiful titles that coltrane is an alien.those are really songs played with heart . enjoy

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Sell Your Bootlegs on E-Bay

okierambler

I first heard this glorious music in the late 1970s when I hosted a nightly jazz show on a college radio station. One of my listeners, a professor loaned me his vinyl bootlegs of some of the Coltrane/Dolphy material. The sound quality wasn't great, but the music was incredible. I've found some less-than-OK sounding "import" CDs over the years, but the quality here is so much better it's like hearing it all for the first time. Thanks Pablo! Thanks e-music!

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Great stuff

pleasuredome

Excellent. Excellent sound quality. Excellent music.

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Live Trane - The Details

AG

For an accurate track by track listing of locations and times of recording as well as to know which of these tracks are duplicated on other Fantasy/Pablo CDs, consult the following site: http://home.att.net/~dawild/livetrane_details.htm

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This Japanese three-LP box set from the German company BYG captures Coltrane at four separate European concerts from a four-year period. At a Stockholm concert from Nov. 22, 1961, Coltrane and his Quintet (with Eric Dolphy on alto, flute and bass clarinet, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Elvin Jones) perform a 20-minute “My Favorite Things” and much more concise versions of “Naima,” “Blue Train” and “Impressions.” The classic Quartet (with Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and Jones) interprets “I Want to Talk About You,” “Traneing In,” “Spiritual” and “Mr. P.C.” at a Stockholm concert from Oct. 22, 1963, and the same group at concerts in Antibes and Paris on July 27 and 28, 1965 really tears into “Blue Valse,” “Afro Blue,” “Naima” and two versions of “Impressions.” This hard-to-find set, even if the liner notes are in Japan, is highly recommended to true John Coltrane fans, for these live recordings are often quite intense and dazzling, particularly the later performances. – Scott Yanow

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