Here is Side B of the DJ Rook and Elyte Jazz mix from 1999. Highlights on this one include a lovely Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie tune, Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” and “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane. Yes we were that fresh in high school.
July 15th, 2007 Episode 6: Jazz We Got Side B SUBSCRIBE or search for Ross The Boss Radio in your itunes music store. It’s free.
Track Listing
Intro- Jazz We Got
Dave Brubeck- Take Five
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman- My One and Only Love
Modern Jazz Quartet- Bags Groove
Eric Dolphy- Epistrophy
Clifford Brown & Max Roach- Doxy
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme (Acknowledgement)
Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery- Deliliah
Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie- Honeysuckle Rose
Thank You
The second side is jut like the first but way more fresher, with way less effort. Lot’s of good tracks here. Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” deserves a closer look, so I stole a point of view and pasted it below.
The Classic Quartet produced their most famous record, “A Love Supreme”, in December 1964. A culmination of much of Coltrane’s work up to this period, this four-part suite is an ode to his faith in and love for God (not necessarily God in the Christian sense – Coltrane often mentioned that he worshipped all gods of all religions). Its spiritual concerns would characterize much of Coltrane’s composing and playing from this point until his death in 1967. The fourth movement of the suite, “Psalm,” is, in fact, a musical setting for an original poem to God written by Coltrane, and printed in the album’s liner notes. Coltrane plays almost exactly one note for each syllable of the poem, and bases his phrasing on the words. Despite its challenging musical content, the album was a commercial success by jazz standards, encapsulating both the internal and external energy of the quartet of Coltrane, Tyner, Jones and Garrison. They only played the suite live once – in July 1965 at a concert in Antibes, France.
A link to the original liner notes is here.
