I remembering listening to this with my uncle at my grandma's house when I was five years old.

My brother was trying to learn clarinet at the time and it sounded horrible.

I told my brother:

You's gotta lis'en to John Cool Train. He's the best!!!

Blue Train

This is the classic Jazz piece that brings me back to my Elementary school gymnasium. I was lucky enough to have one of those "progressive" principals who loved jazz.

He invited the high school jazz band to play for us. It was Blue Train, but it wasn't Cool Train. The high school jazz band impressed me, but there was only one John Coletrane.

This turn brings me to other worlds. This Tuesday afternoon is calling me to spend some time in those "other worlds".

Let the brass call you and lift you up out of the blue and put you back in the blue.

Do you know what does it? I think Coltrane dances to a different drummer. He is literally playing his solo on another field. Yet it all comes together. Maybe that's why I can never get this music out of my mind and I want to go back there when I'm blue.

My Favorite Things

John Coltrane is never Cliche even when he is playing "My Favorite Things". This is just 13 minutes, but I think he can go one for at least ten more minutes on this song.

This is not the Sound of Music in happy "G". They seem to have gotten jazzy playing gin and tonic E minor. I often forget sound of music while listening to this.

All I remember is going into space and being lifted up with his saxophone.

Hackensack

Here we find Coletrane on the sax again and this time in a song about Hackensack, New Jersey. I wonder if this was the place the Hackey Sack became popular.

Oscar Peterson is on Piano and Paul Chambers is on bass while Stan Getz and Coletrane take the sax.

This is the only live song I included in the three. Notice the background. The audience is really swinging to the beat. I love the way each musician sincerely listens and waits. There is no conductor telling them when to go. They just know it's their turn to take off and then when they cool down they hand the baton to the next player. I can imagine they would go on all night like this.

Have a jazzy week.

The pictures here are from my own cell phone camera. The words are my own. I hope you can relax and enjoy some saxaphone^^