# John Coltrane: it’s hard not to become transfixed by his playing: Five Videos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/03/19/john-coltrane-its-hard-not-to-become-transfixed-by-his-playing-five-videos/
- Published: 2018-03-19T10:09:17+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Listening to John Coltrane, it’s hard not to become transfixed by his playing.
He was breathtaking, especially in the 1960s. **

The music was muscular, intellectual, earthy and heroic, with each musician in his
quartet bringing the highest level of thinking and expression to each performance.
Here are five live clips of Coltrane in action:

![Coltranecoltrane_enl](http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f0883401b8d2e2d50a970c-
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John Coltrane (ts), Eric Dolphy (as), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b) and Elvin
Jones (d) playing Coltrane’s _Impressions_…

John Coltrane (ts), Tyner (p), Garrison (b) and Jones (d) playing Coltrane’s _Alabama_
on Ralph J. Gleason’s West Coast TV show _Jazz Casual_ in 1963. The song was written
in response to the bombing of an Alabama church earlier that year that killed four
African-American girls…

The same quartet on Gleason’s show playing Coltrane’s _Afro Blue_…

John Coltrane with the same quartet playing his ballad _Naima _in 1965…

John** **Coltrane in 1960 playing with Wynton Kelly (p) Paul Chambers (b) and Jimmy
Cobb (dr). Coltrane plays _On Green Dolphin Street, Walking’, The Theme,_ _Autumn
Leaves_ and _What’s New_. Stan Getz plays _Moonlight in Vermont,_ and then Coltrane
and Getz play Thelonious Monk’s _Hackensack_…

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