John Coltrane
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Nov 13, 2026
Marius NesetGUEST
And it's something in there that, to me, is very deep.
Marius NesetGUEST
It's much deeper than just all his amazing phrases, all his amazing lines that's harmonically, you know, just... breathtaking for me but it's something there is a nerve in his playing and I just can't explain but there is a storytelling in every solo he does and there are other sax players as well that that has that kind of thing and very different ones like Wayne Shorter John Coltrane etc but to me his language was so attractive to me his energy i watched him live in 2004 in copenhagen um with his queen deck tat and i was a young 18 years old guy i had the best place i was you know in the front in the middle just to watch him it's the most powerful experience i ever had in my life it's probably if i should say one life-changing concert in my life that I've heard, it's that one.
Marius NesetGUEST
It talked to me in a way that nothing has done.
Marius NesetGUEST
And I couldn't listen to any music the next couple of weeks.
Asha PuthliGUEST
Just a little, yes.
Asha PuthliGUEST
I've put, you know, it's the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane.
Asha PuthliGUEST
So I've put Hindi lyrics to one of his songs, Naima.
Asha PuthliGUEST
How amazing.
Chris VandercookSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Urgent, edgy, and beautiful.
Chris VandercookSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Forty years later, Coltrane's horn can still inspire more than a few heavy sighs.
Beth Ann KoslovichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's a band.
Beth Ann KoslovichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's what happens right before the earthquake.
Mike WattHOST
Friend of McCoy Tyner.
Mike WattHOST
John Coltrane.
Mike WattHOST
It's 1960, so it ain't Jimmy Garrison on the bass yet.
Mike WattHOST
And in fact, probably ain't Elvin Jones on the drums either.
BenGUEST
Like, speaking of McCoy Tyner and shit, that's...
BenGUEST
Oh, and Giant Steps is the reason I quit trying to learn jazz.
Mike WattHOST
Actually, that's Tommy Flanagan, right? You know, the story is John Coltrane gives him a piece of paper with the chords on it, and he thought it was a ballad.
Mike WattHOST
He didn't know you had to play it.
Max LevyHOST
I didn't have it on shuffle.
Dwayne GunnelsHOST
John Coltrane.
Dwayne GunnelsHOST
This is ballads.
Max LevyHOST
Yeah.
27 MINS LATER
Max LevyHOST
Something that talking about jazz records, which is kind of a theme of this episode, I've been noticing that there's been these like jazz sequels coming out this year and last year.
Max LevyHOST
One is from Brantford Marsalis and Diane Reeves.
Max LevyHOST
They came up with this record dedicated to you, which is almost like a recreation of John Coltrane's record with Johnny Hartman.
Max LevyHOST
And so Brantford and Diane, they do the same exact tune list and then they add a couple of others.
Colson WhiteheadGUEST
Not so much work through, but it's songs I like.
Colson WhiteheadGUEST
It'll be John Coltrane and Daft Punk and Edith Piaf.
Colson WhiteheadGUEST
It's just songs I like.
Colson WhiteheadGUEST
They're my little friends.
Gavin BHOST
Hold on.
Gavin BHOST
John Coltrane.
Gavin BHOST
Y'all ain't going to claim him, but we will.
Gavin BHOST
No, no, no.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
He recorded Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
He is one of the two credited engineers on John Coltrane's album Giant Steps, cut at Atlantic in 1959, which brings us to the first record on today's listening spine.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
Ray Charles, What Did I Say? Ray made this song up on the bandstand.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
In December of 1958, he ran out of material at a dance with time left on the clock, and he told his singers, the Raylets, that he was going to fool around and they should just follow him.
William EllisGUEST
It was, I could tell what he was doing.
William EllisGUEST
He was really going for that Coltrane, Eric Dolphy thing.
William EllisGUEST
I'm trying to think
Rich RedmondHOST
here.
Rachel PayneGUEST
But, you know, I mean, I grew up listening to The Beatles.
Rachel PayneGUEST
I grew up listening to Coltrane, Stan Getz and all of these jazz musicians.
Rachel PayneGUEST
And then but when I was six, I went to my first opera and I said, I want to do that.
Rachel PayneGUEST
And my mom laughed because she was like, oh boy, what does that mean? Puccini, which I did in this first Lamplight concert, I did a piece from Tosca and the opera that I saw was Suor Angelica, which is this incredible piece about a woman who has a baby and she has to give it up because it was out of wedlock.
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