Jazz at YouTube
I’ve been listening to this music for twenty years, but like a lot of us I wasn’t able to watch Coltrane or Evans or Wes Montgomery. Now I see YouTube starts to have some old concerts and TV shows.
I particularly like this one of Coltrane’s Quartet playing Naima somewhere in Europe (on Arte!) in 1965. Grainy B&W, very good camera work, and Elvin Jones is literally steaming – how great is that?
What do you make of Cecil Taylor’s facial expressions after he finishes playing here?
Someone in one of the comment threads laments the extreme paucity of recorded video of this amazing era; at the moment, I’m mighty happy to have stumbled on to some of it here.
September 2nd, 2006 at 19:01
My interest in Jazz increased after watching Terminal (Tom Hanks) :) The link above dosen’t seem to work (for Coltraine’s Quartet). The expressions on the Cecil Taylor were pretty amazing… at the end of it, he seemed to be saying… “there, I made my point” :)
There’s another guy Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (Indian classical) who plays similarly… some notes)
September 12th, 2006 at 07:39
Fixed the links — thanks Sanjay!
Taylor’s expression for me, when he drops his head, was “they didn’t get it … again!” But who knows. Other interpretations?