Discovered this last week. Ive listened to it over and over again. To really get it you got to cast your mind in the frame of an unsuspecting european audience hearing what Coltrane was doing in 1960 for the first time. The guy who posted it on youtube describes it eloquently.... 0:14 Miles Davis plays the melody of Bye Bye Blackbird on muted trumpet. 1:10 Miles takes an improvised solo on the chord changes. 4:57 Coltrane begins his long improvisation on the chord changes. 7:23 Where you might think Coltrane would end his long solo, he keeps going, his improvisation getting more and more challenging. 8:20 Coltrane keeps going, and the Paris crowd doesnt know what to make of it. 9:17 The crowd gets restless- you can hear them start to whistle and make noise- what is going on? What is Coltrane doing? And is the crowd cheering or protesting? 9:58 Now the crowd REALLY doesnt know what to make of things. The tension is electric. Coltrane is undaunted in his passionate improvisatory solo which has now gone on for close to 6 minutes. 10:39 Perhaps a consensus has emerged: the crowd bursts into applause before Coltanes solo ends. 11:00 Coltranes solo ends, and Wynton Kelly begins his piano solo, which is sparkling and as swinging as it gets- but after hearing Coltrane, is the way that we hear Wynton Kelly forever changed? At the end of the tour, Coltrane quits Miles band. https://youtube/watch?v=WmkDBx2fjjg
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:19:11 +0000
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