JOHN COLTRANE LIVE IN  ‘60,’61 &’ 65
Label: Jazz Icons
DVD Release Date: 1 Oct 2007 
Run Time: 95 minutes
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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". 

It’s hard to imagine that John Coltrane’s recording career lasted only 12 years. His was an unending intellectual and spiritual quest through music. No one with such an extraordinary degree of talent worked as hard to master his instrument and to seek the deepest form of human expression through it.
In that 12 years, Coltrane was always instantly identifiable, yet always changing and evolving. The three performances on this DVD show in dramatic relief the most important phases of his career.
These newly discovered 1960 performances with Miles Davis’s rhythm section find him near the end of his “sheets-of-sound” period, which gave us such masterpieces as “Mr. P.C.” and “Giant Steps.” Coltrane was anxious to form his own group and this final tour with Davis was a favor to the trumpeter. His restlessness shows through in his playing here and elsewhere at the time. It is fascinating to hear him with one of his early idols Stan Getz and his playing seems to challenge Getz to a new level..
The 1965 Comblain-La-Tour performance, providing some great visuals, allows us to see the group at the peak of its powers and near the end of its run. By the end of the year, McCoy and Elvin were gone and one of the most innovative and exciting ensembles in jazz was no more.

LIVE IN GERMANY 1960

Personnel

John Coltrane (Tenor & Soprano Sax)
Wynton Kelly (Piano)
Paul Chambers (Bass)
Jimmy Cobb (Drums)
with guests 
Oscar Peterson (Piano)
Stan Getz (Tenor Sax)

Playlist

On Green Dolphin Street
Walkin’
The Theme 
Autumn Leaves
What’s New
Autumn In NY
Hackensack

LIVE IN GERMANY 1961

Personnel

John Coltrane (Tenor & Soprano Sax)
Eric Dolphy (Alto Sax & Flute)
McCoy Tyner (Piano)
Reggie Workman (Bass)
Elvin Jones (Drums)
 
Playlist
My Favorite Things
Ev’rytime We Say Goodbye
Impressions

LIVE IN BELGIUM 1965

Personnel

John Coltrane (Tenor & Soprano Sax)
McCoy Tyner (Piano)
Jimmy Garrison (Bass)
Elvin Jones (Drums) 

Playlist
Vigil
Naima
My Favorite Things



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