JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET Ascension France, 1965

[@yeoldmedic7572]

Good lord wow like nothing ive ever heard , divine harmony and brutal chaos

[@apothecurio]

Totally check out Throat by Little Women for a mixture of divine harmony and brutal chaos (Track IV specifically, though do explore the other tracks)

[@yeoldmedic7572]

@@apothecurio thanks imma check it

[@francisbassett-dilley2675]

That’s why his music is the truth

[@salliedumaine7523]

Brutal chaos!!!! Love it!

[@nemethrobert]

not chaos, natural, spontaineous order.........

[@arnekronvall817]

Hand on my heart, I listen to this genre of jazz everyday and it’s hands down my favorite. But I can only listen to it alone, because when ever someone else hears me listen to it, they think I am some psycho idiot listening to someone beating a goat and a cat to death at the same time. And when ever someone enters the house while I am playing these types of tunes and we start having a conversation with this playing in the background, I can feel the discomfort in the other person that later enters me as well, and then I can really hear that it’s very crazy that I listen to it. Why do I like it so much. What’s sad is that I can’t share the spiritual experience with anyone because no one I know likes this genre of jazz, not even the jazziest people I know.

[@Saxoskop]

Don't worry! There are a lot of people out there sharing your feelings!

[@thomaswilliams2723]

Hey bro. I'm a high school senior from southern Alabama. I've made it all the way to the state jazz band and do gigs even playing free form. Round here, Jazz is, like most other things from diverse northern cities, considered nonsensical leftist propaganda, and no one, not even my girlfriend or parents understands my connection to it. There are others here. You are not alone. Listen to pieces like this and A Love Supreme and remember that is what John was saying. I will never meet you, but this music lives and breathes inside both of us, and for that, you are like a sibling to me. Keep on keeping on, and stay boppin

[@ayezay2677]

I’m 11 I have a woodwind instrument and I play free jazz and I grew into it I love trane I used to only be used to a love supreme but I played ascension didn’t like played it more listened love it I can tell I can listen to meditations or even pharaoh sanders honking and screaming on his sax which I actually like which Coltrane was trying to get don’t worry I listen to Coltrane with my father on my way to school I play his free stuff and classic quartet free jazz and a love supreme

[@MrBunghole666]

its very... difficult, helpme out brother

[@nathanstreilein758]

I came to jazz from listening to extreme metal bands that crossover into jazz. The Dillinger Escape Plan, Naked City, Cynic, Atheist, Ad Nauseaum, Imperial Triumphant, God, Mr. Bungle etc.. I found myself enjoying free jazz the most because of the chaos of it and also the technical ability. Also got really into Stravinsky and Bartok for similar reasons.

[@MorningView4]

Coltrane’s search for a higher meaning to life gave him that extra drive to create unreal art. Also, McCoy Tyner is a genius.

[@MrBunghole666]

i am too, maybe im missin something clear

[@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out]

@@MrBunghole666 maybe missing that you never find it, that it's only about the search. sorry for the cliche zen answer, but your comment begged for it.

[@vern2k653]

I think music is the best path to find answers.

[@Thomas-yl8lb]

McCoy Tyner is brilliant, but he shouldn't only be defined by his Coltrane era. Check out Horizon by McCoy Tyner: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGGslGpoicehbLc

[@masonmcgowan2825]

@@MrBunghole666Coltrane is as good as he is because the sax was the only thing to take his mind off of his heroin withdrawal, guy would literally fall asleep practicing with his sax in hand. You can’t be as good as he is without dedication and obsession like that

[@ziemowitmiszczobrocki1178]

imagine beeing there.. the existential void after such a performence, after seeing coltrane live. and than having to go back to ur life lmao

[@sampeck5545]

He was so special - like an ancient poet pulled out of the past and given a saxophone

[@arnekronvall817]

That was a really good explanation !

[@fredericpiters2804]

The greatest quartet of all times

[@stephangagnon3121]

Humm, I would say second greatest after Miles’s second quintet…

[@SpiritualAlien]

Multi-level, multi-dimensional, simultaneous free-form improvisation as an art form. Few musicians could pull this off so magically.

[@62sunburstjazz78]

Allan holdsworth.

[@georgebremer2128]

This is truly amazing! Tyner and Jones had a telepathic link, I could listen to those two just jamming together for hours. Obviously, Trane is Trane, always awesome.

[@aldonocchiero9966]

John plays in a so emotional way that he makes me cry. I realize to be so lucky to listen to him and see him playing, like a man of two or three centuries ago could see Mozart or Paganini, because John shares just that level of power and Music.

[@mariolongo7369]

John in his greatest splendor... Thanks!😊🎷👍

[@jon863]

He's going in. I have no other words haha he's just going hard as fuck. Incredible

[@otanygirl]

you are so right

[@alphonsepetitboudu6552]

Merci au festival international de jazz d'Antibes Juan les Pins, à l'ORTF, à Jean-Christophe Averty, à l'INA pour ces archives audiovisuelles. C'est un document historique. 27 juillet 1965. Pinède Gould Antibes Juan les Pins France. Le festival existe toujours.

[@bobbysands6923]

This was a moment in time when Trane brought jazz to a level so high there was no where else to go. So, it regressed once he passed. Jazz is still the greatest music artform, but it will never go past what Trane did, or even come near it.Not even Miles, who came damn close. This truly was the entrance to Heaven.

[@robertlepper5460]

Nonsense

[@DPOWER222]

This version of Ascension made my heart 🖤 sing with joy💯🍾🍾🍾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽☮️ One of the greatest moments in musical history!!! This is love channeled through a musical group!! Extraordinary 💙

[@Cespinozas]

That fucking freedom thank you John! Bless you

[@crackerfoot]

I feel like I'm communing with Coltrane when I see and hear this.

[@benoitbaud664]

Merci John Coltrane quartet et aussi la french TV pour cette très belle archive !

[@GianPaoloGalasi]

First time I hear this previously unknown version of Ascension, and it's so beautiful ... thanks for sharing.

[@charlesimbimbo2070]

The ultimate! Gives me goose bumps!

[@thundathunda4310]

McCoy Tyner is an absolute beast!!!!

[@blacksantaria3642]

GREATEST GROUP EVER .

[@arnekronvall817]

Yes, but if I have this genre of jazz playing in the background whilst talking to someone; I can feel the discomfort in the other person, and this discomfort later enters me as well and suddenly I realize: This music is actually crazy.

[@colejohnsondrums]

@@arnekronvall817 that is so accurate -any time something like this comes on I get so uncomfortable because it's making then uncomfortable

[@ernestmitchell9149]

The Most Beautiful And Satisfying....

[@myhomelesslifestyle7857]

Whew !!! Wow !!! Outstanding. Bless them all. Peace

[@reidontravel]

Like a throat singer -- his sax cries seem to hit two notes at once, playing off each other, struggling. I can't imagine how one would be able to follow this with another performance. By the end, his low resigned notes were like a resolution. An acceptance. Almost a surrender. Fascinating music.

[@micketenor]

Thank you Juan! You are the best.

[@yoba1840]

J'aurai tellement aimé être là

[@spottycat1744]

Tyner e Coltrane...due giganti assoluti! Pura energia

[@massimocastagninisax4589]

Tutti i sentimenti dì Coltrane in un video, grazie per averlo pubblicato 🙏🏻

[@ICA17887]

Le Quatuor Magique.

[@ndbrown65]

The sounds transport you for 11:52. A voyage through the galaxy of sound space. What a beautiful work of art. MASTER PIECE!!!!!!!

[@lukefitzsimons6124]

Fax

[@orqsilva]

Incredible. Can you find any more videos from this period. Better than Love Supreme. Coltrane's tone is also incredible. Sweetness, blues and power simultaneously. Posting his is a gift to the world, particularly the musicians.

[@realpawl]

This is beyond words no matter how much I hear it always raises my heart and breathing and brings me close to tears with emotions!

[@nikolaziza2982]

Likewise

[@berne202]

Coltrane IS THE ONE!

[@hugovandermeer1566]

Painterly, tasteful, a work of art, imagination, and musical know how.

[@rosebrunberg]

"Brutal chaos" is far away from this. This is beautiful, even though that the balance is what it is because of the act of recording on those days.

[@lianomacanzoni1734]

John coltrane una colonna della musica contemporanea ❤

[@pappymartinlegacyjazzcolle4534]

Indescribably, yet beautifully, profound...like no other

[@giammysax5042]

grandissimo john 🥰🎷

[@thomaskelly4879]

Thank you John.

[@GjaP_242]

“One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.” John Coltrane

[@GjaP_242]

6:19

[@the.bloodless.one1312]

My heart is fucking racing!! Like a jackhammer! Every time I hear Trane’s horn blaring, my heart just starts racing uncontrollably with unbelievable joy!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love his sound!!

[@cjheru9]

Thank you for this!!!!!!!! Made my day and night 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@santomusic3981]

This ‘music’ is on a level that will never be matched. Unless you can recreate the social/ political conditions that young black men faced in early 60s USA, and the awareness of identity, spirituality, etc that they sought to combat their anger, frustration and depression. Those are the elements you can hear in this performance.

[@robertjohnson4525]

There will never be a another like him

[@damiancourtis7513]

Goosebumps....

[@brotzmannsax]

This was the end of the mighty Coltrane Quartet as they extended themselves as far as they could go, Tyner would split, and Coltrane would form his new free jazz band.

[@hmm4214]

Omg, thanks!

[@ProfJahPinpin]

Fantastic !

[@mananaadamia1657]

I like this music

[@leanmchungry4735]

This is terrific, I've never seen this clip before. I enjoy the close ups of Tranes no USA Florida Link.

[@universalmysteries7879]

God like pure Love

[@tsietsimalema8804]

Ya neh. Is waar. God is speaking through Coltrane. At the end of the solo I can only say AMEN

[@howardaltman2600]

Holy Shmoley! What a find!

[@gionnipinziroli3994]

Bello

[@MikeBlitzMag]

Professor Coltrane is still the absolute standard of excellence in the genre. He raised the bar about as high as it could be raised.

[@PepperWilliams_songcovers]

First of All: Coltrane will forever be the greatest tenor saxophonist in the world!! No one in a thousand years will ever capture what he did! With that being said, some of his late stuff (NOT THIS RECORDING THOUGH, was just a bit too much for my intelligence. Coltrane knew how to 'cry' and 'scream' on that horn that was beyond human! Nevertheless, I'll always love him. And Tyner and Jones are R I D I C U L O U S!! Tyner's solo is beyond 'sick' on this recording! Coltrane died in 1967, 55 years ago as of June 5, 2022. It will take another couple of centuries before anyone ever get close (if at all).

[@MrNicks-gn8jc]

I wish a quartet version of Ascension was on vinyl (or disc at least) FYI: I prefer Version B of the recorded one

[@dokonidanko]

coltrane < 3

[@twelve_thirteen]

He was one of the greatest jazz musicians period, and then free jazz came about and he solidified himself is the greatest jazz musician and extoller of free jazz

[@alexandthewhalesnake6767]

Wow

[@ronfrankl]

Wonderful! As a composition, I think this works better for the quartet than for a line up featuring five additional horns.

[@augustindrummer2919]

Totaly agree !

[@thomasarneson4511]

Starts out great, but he lost me near the end. I could hear his pain. After this Alice came in on piano. She had her moments. At the Vanguard she was fantastic on Naima.

[@raulmacias1311]

I only wish Ohnedaruth had recorded and released this wonderful piece with the Quartet only! And not with the expanded group.

[@dksfl]

Awesome

[@Sharing13]

So epic

[@TheMetatron333]

Jesus Christ what a monster! The way he can just sit on the edge of fracking and just rip.

[@WilliamSantos-h6l]

Great he was

[@aaronalter2000]

Coltrane was pouring his innermost feelings into the saxophone.

[@tsietsimalema8804]

At the end of that sold it's like he submits to the power and will of God. In SeSotho it's said Wa ikokobetsa

[@fron645]

Holy shit!

[@puerto6482]

For some reason your comment is perfect

[@morganhernandez297]

#heartxophone

[@trevorbarre5616]

This must be one of the last performances of the great Quartet? The fault lines are already showing.

[@JacobVBurg]

Isn't it great? There's a video from a different concert done in August of 1965 and is also one of the last recorded performances of the quartet. Once he added Pharaoh Sanders in September 1965, the original quartet came to end. But to be clear, I fucking love the final Quintet, so with change came evolution. Live in Japan 1966 is one of the greatest live recordings that I have ever heard. Nothing quite comes close to replicating the emotions that music invokes in me to this day. Raw, unhinged, overdriven human expression.

[@19C78]

🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀

[@fusionhar]

More Please...(if not, some GaGa)

[@donaldraby2892]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 💙

[@jiyujizai]

🌼❤️😀💚

[@franekkwiatkowski9472]

Coltrane was a God’s messenger

[@jiyujizai]

💚😃🌱🌼

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

A damp drizzly day in the big city

[@samfiadrangus9188]

Straight up FIRE! Too bad Jimmy Garrison is lost in the mix...

[@dennisgeerlings4384]

Put on a headphone & will hear him in full splendor 🖤🎷

[@anthonykane201]

Great band! Don't know why they always wore Tuxedo suits and bowties. Actually, don't know the name for the type of tie Trane is wearing. Elvin is wearing a bowtie.

[@ernestmitchell9149]

I Have No Hope I Love The Trane I Am Free.....

[@user-jy1xv8be4p]

映像は勉強になります

[@user-fs1gd6iy1u]

I just don't understand! Why didn't John Coltrane record this with just his Quartet!

[@bernier1608]

Raw, unrefined cool.

[@MiqelDotCom]

7:44 is the start of an intense mathematical download

[@Geordiepete211]

Is this on a DVD I can buy?

[@lacufd]

Dios.

[@danaswitch5865]

We are the mere apprentice's to sound; the bystanders of the many human possibilities of bop. Yet If "Ascension" was a girl, we would pay her bills, then slay her in the moonlight. But the repetition here means so much more. It means that we can only find one true love and that lover, fanatical, can kiss our lips and set us free.

[@camthesaxman3387]

huh?

[@jampoles]

Is this Otto Link's masterpiece mouthpiece?

[@marcogranata3072]

Transizione in atto.

[@shnootch]

camera work's a bit busy

[@theshengster9282]

does he play mars

[@IntoDeathandTheBuddahMatrix]

I can understand if people do not get this or find this musical in the sense that this is something you listen to for pleasure. I speculate that this work is Coltrane's most self-serving; he is at a point in his life where music has lost its meaning. The music he played is now strange and displeasing. The music that is calling him now is music made solely for whoever is playing it. The experience of the music itself is what I would say is the unconscious theme of Ascension. It is no longer about tension and resolution but the hellish landscape of a world without either. The beginning melody serves as the only sense of time and space and the run through the song is Coltrane holding on to dear life; the chaos of the harmonic landscape serves as an allusion to life itself; we are beings holding on to our themes amidst all of the chaos encompassing existence. Coltrane has declared that there is no such thing as harmony and the only thing we can do is play to the chaos as we descend into nothingness never to play again.

[@jzzft11]

Ever speculate that you don't understand it?

[@IntoDeathandTheBuddahMatrix]

@@jzzft11 and you’re being negative because?

[@bounderby99]

I find speculation like this to be a bit frustrating because it’s both musically baseless as well as out of touch with how Coltrane felt (or at least what he expressed in interviews). His goal in making this music was to try to be as fully expressive as possible both in terms of expression of self, expression of beauty, and the expression of years of musical exploration. But Coltrane’s playing is inherently musical and tied to core principles of different styles/cultural musical traditions that he studied. If you listen to what Coltrane plays, he clearly plays certain harmonic and melodic ideas and doesn’t do anything randomly. I find the more people call this music random or inaccessible, the more people will accept that to be the truth when it really isn’t. It’s the perfect balance of a lifetime of musical study and deep personal expression of beauty and energy, and the work of a brilliant man who was always learning and studying as many ideas as he could to express as many beautiful ideas as he could; there is nothing that is abandoned in Coltrane’s late playing, only ideas that are added to, evolved, refined, iterated upon, etc…

[@alexhunter7766]

The beginning is the only part of the tune that is not in time. The rest of the tune is clearly in a minor key with a few shifts away from it. Give your ears a clean.

[@IntoDeathandTheBuddahMatrix]

@@alexhunter7766 This is my interpretation of the piece. Get the fuck over it.

[@icebergcxc]

how is this guy even human?? how do you come up with this??

[@jibsmokestack1]

Research jazz of the preceding period and Coltrane’s journey to this point and you’ll understand more how these musicians ‘came up with it’. Compared to 2 others foundational names in the Jazz Avant Garde Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, Trane’s comes out of the Bop tradition. Ornette and Cecil’s music was so out they struggled to find musicians able to play it let alone an audience to hear it. Coltrane just get getting more out with each recording but started out in the Bop mainstream.

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

Drugs. Lots of drugs my dude

[@jibsmokestack1]

@@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs he’s been sober for 8 years by this point so think again

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

@@jibsmokestack1 good 👍🏻

[@PimentalismoTV]

drugs are good, but i dont bellieve that drugs can play this music. John Coltrane is the drug, a spiritual drug ♥️

[@oskarschonherr6012]

Elvin hat aber ganz schön Wumms, Meiner

[@drive_with_pov]

1:46 when your mom slap you because u bad on play music 😂

[@aurelienressot]

Gg guy

[@r.l.i.m.p5222]

XD

[@etwi6699]

Here from the jazz trash can

[@bachtobebop]

WTF was that! Just kidding. Mature music here! A Master Prophet. The media has to promote Jazz, the highest level of communication.

[@MrBunghole666]

ive never 'understood' jazz, anyone help me pls? it just sounds disjointed and difficult, un 'musical' man, help me get this

[@camthesaxman3387]

You want real jazz? Go listen to some Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Herbie Hancock. This stuff here is trash.

[@KSmall109CAB]

I try not to understand music. I just try to feel it. Maybe it's why I can listen to Celia Cruz even though I don't speak Spanish or Milton Nascimento even though I don't speak Portuguese. In this phase of his music career, John Coltrane's music often evoke a raw, perhaps even frightening feeling. Think about what was going on in the world at the time Coltrane performed this work. It was a very unsettling time.

[@KSmall109CAB]

@@camthesaxman3387 One person's trash is another person's gold. I recall as a child and in early adulthood going to African American Baptist, Methodist, COGIC, Pentacostal, and nondenominational Christian churches. When members of a congregation were possessed with the Holy Spirit, there were sounds and utterances that would seem frightening to the untutored. However, if you were familiar with the experience, it did not frighten you. You just allowed yourself to be enveloped, consumed, and transformed by it. My mom once said that she thought Coltrane was insane. When I explained to her that Coltrane's grandfather was a southern Baptist minister and as a child Coltrane regularly went to church, she began to understand that some of his unlyrical, chaotic music wasn't that much different from what happens in many African American churches on a Sunday afternoon, or even on a Tuesday or Wednesday night when churches have prayer or revival meetings. Have you ever gone to a storefront church and caught a case of the Holy Spirit? It can be as unsettling as some of Coltrane's most intense and seemingly unmusical music. Maybe this is what Jesus felt like during the savior's heavenly ascension. Happy Easter. .

[@jimrich4192]

It's simple if you understand what drugs can do to the brain & John had plenty of drug use years ago. Just my lay-opinion, but I clearly hear BRAIN DAMAGE in the meaningless noise & sound effects coming from John! It's very sad what serious drugs did to John in the end!!! 😢😢😢