John Coltrane / Transition

John Coltrane (ts)
McCoy Tyner (p)
Jimmy Garrison (b)
Elvin Jones (ds)
1965/06/10
06/16

[@raynardwarfield2343]

Truly appreciate 🙏 this tremendous opportunity to explore and appreciate one of the greatest pillars of jazz while he lived his music effected everyone Truly loved ❤ and a legend 🙌

[@ericscott203]

Transition seems to be moving in to Meditations being exactly what Coltrane and Group did. They Meditated Through Music. Interesting when you look at Cover again and listen to All of Conversation. Makes you got to Meditations Meditation Suite Sun Ship and OF Course A Love Supreme Original Album band Live in Seattle. And More

[@ericscott203]

The Closing Battle Duet should be Looked at Again. Just Trane and Elvin. Amen from Sun Ship reveals something also. Awesome Story that just keeps Hammering a Point

[@sabrinatotty4097]

Listening to “Welcome” is like having Coltrane tuck you in ♥️

[@blacksantaria3642]

BLACK PEOPLE DEMAND THAT MUSIC BE PUT BACK IN THE SCHOOLS .NOW !

[@reddwing4368]

They don t have music class in schools anymore???

[@strangersname]

@@reddwing4368 No, that would take away from teaching the kids about the 16 different genders they can be on any given day.

[@reddwing4368]

@@strangersname yeah right That's a shame on both counts

[@johntiger5]

This is one of the greatest albums of all times. Not just jazz albums. A true transition for all music. Pre- Transistion, and post- Transition.

[@DPOWER222]

Brilliant insight!! You recognized the truth. This is spiritual, healing music 🙏🏽🎶

[@monsterjazzlicks]

Wow, never even heard of this CD before??!!

[@jedtulman46]

Possibly the apex of Trane .. one of the many .. enjoy.

[@blankfrancine]

So intense, so musical. Hard to believe this was recorded in 1965. The energy is almost too much.

[@quartzphyre3483]

Truth2power radio blog 9pm EST oct 30th Saturday .. Author Dr Cuthart Simpkins M.D. Coltrane's Poem & letter along with personal interview's with Mcoy tyner and Naima Coltrane

[@hosshoss777]

la sol fa sol la

[@brunomaiamusic]

essa fase pós drogas dele foi muito usada pelo Vaticano em rituais de exorcismo.

[@mattiameis3300]

Ubi maior..

[@marks.3303]

Track list: Transition 0:00 Welcome 15:27 Suite (Prayer and Meditation: Day, Peace and After, Prayer and Meditation: Evening, Affirmation, Prayer and Meditation: 4 A.M.) 20:52 Vigil 42:12

[@paulmorgan2948]

@ Mark S. I always appreciate when someone like you puts up the track listing. Thank you

[@reddwing4368]

Even with the playlist It's still so hard to navigate your way around On This wild ass ride Thanks

[@moneybags6840]

Add: 24:10 28:00 32:14 33:05 38:33 39:40

[@ruthdixon7807]

coltrane and elvin's most extreme blast of pure energy. I can listen to this CD about once a year.

[@oozrenn]

john + elvin + tyner

[@butlerjazzguitar]

Why you want to leave out the bass?...according to alot of musicians its the most important instrument.... keeping a center to the madmen improvising LOL Otherwise those guys would be lost forever in the infinite void, somebody gotta drive home, but they never get the credit@@oozrenn

[@tsunefumiasahara3664]

Absolutely The Masterpiece.I think this combo's Playing level is more better than "A LOVE SUPREME".Sorry-bad engrish.

[@gibberconfirm166]

You're not wrong.

[@mcknih1020]

Check out the conversations he's having with himself in the higher and lower registers and at 10:31 Trane comes in like a Hurricane

[@chipstern1]

Exactly. He deploys the same musical/spiritual device on "The Father, And The Son, And The Holy Ghost" from MEDITATIONS, and he just builds and builds and builds to a catharsis for a few minutes, and just at the point you figure he's like to bust, reaching reaching REACHING FOR THAT ONE NOTE, he explodes, like a tiger leaping through the burning hoop at the circus, and the dual-drummers [Rashied Ali AND Elvin Jones] rise to approximate his intensity, like the movement of tectonic plates. I once played it for some straight dudes in college, who'd never heard anything like it before, and this one cat had the most curious grin on his face, like WTF, I don't know where I am, but I sure as hell am ON MY WAY, and when Trane hit that conclusive cry, his butt literally, involuntarily leviated off of the couch. "Oh, WOW." John Coltrane, peoples.

[@metallothionein9]

@@chipstern1 Excellent description of the emotional and technical components. . The device begins with "I'm Old Fashioned." Listen between 1:32 and 1:43 of Coltrane's solo.

[@quartzphyre3483]

Great comment ... Truth2power radio blog Saturday October 30th 9pm EST Author Dr. Cuthart Ormond Simpkins..writer of Coltrane's Bio in the 70's join in please

[@victorrodgers6983]

Order, emotion, chaos, and the transition back

[@eulissbenoit5968]

Yes sir you said it

[@cornellfauler4396]

Such beautiful selflessness for so many to enjoy please know use all this for it's not to be rationed there's fruits of joy enough for all, Blessings!!!!

[@StompL7]

Let's talk about our dude jimmy Garrison Killin it on the bass.

[@edwellseshwene9116]

Jimmy is on his own level love it

[@sebadnot]

I guess he got the most difficult job in Jazz history, how to play with the 3 others? Only him could ... and killed it !

[@darrylsmith2551]

Best sax player ever

[@darrylsmith2551]

When it come to jazz he is one of the best

[@baldurmoizisch6905]

@@darrylsmith2551 Than, who is the best when it doesn´t come to jazz?

[@robertlepper5460]

​@@baldurmoizisch6905There is no ' best '! How are we going to compare this awesome musician with Johnny Hodges or Lester Young or Charles Gayle or Eric Dolphy . What will our criteria be ?

[@DPOWER222]

I agree 💯👍🏿

[@Chocolatiste]

I actually cry every time I listen to this

[@nyvcr502]

Isn’t it beautiful? So profound, soulful and spiritual.

[@cameron_fairchild]

I can understand that.

[@gibberconfirm166]

I guess, I don't want to discourage Coltrane fans, but this is punk as fuck.

[@raefblack7906]

@@gibberconfirm166 But Trane was before punk

[@eulissbeniot9024]

May I ask why you cry

[@hanshi422]

Absolutely one of the finest offerings by Trane, ever. Definitely his 'transitional' piece presaging everything else to come.

[@KurtHandlbauer-ho7jt]

Coltrane becomes a unit with his instrument no inch between

[@ano1wilsonpicket]

elvin as usual

[@wardhilgers3607]

This is my favorite Coltrane album!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jedtulman46]

Mine too

[@richardbirch8831]

There's nobody like Coltrane every time I hear him I can feel them in my bones they don't come any better than train and there's not very many of them come close Eric Duffy is one of my favorites Eric Duffy not Duffy almost cats are above and beyond but then vented Bebop which changed gas forever then train came along and changed it again and since him nobody has come up with anything new and better there's good cats out there but not like discounts dolphy that's right and of course Monk and miles and Men gets yeah I started this in the morning so I mean trying so I've been listening to train since the 50s nobody else like him I also go to the John Coltrane Church as he was sainted in the African orthodox I love the church and they love me I saw the concert when miles fire train for playing too long a solo was a good thing though because then then he formed his own group which was great for him and it's 7 years he put out a lifetime of beautiful music unfortunately he died for such a spiritual dry he used a lot of drugs a lot of black people were treated terribly and unfortunately that racism goes on let's try listening to some Eric Duffy and alcohol with shame prestigious Furniture guy at 40 years old of liver failure such a spiritual cat but

[@jasonpfinch]

Amazing album. I've been listening to Coltrane most days for about eight years now and yet I'd never heard this till now.

[@kapler79]

Arguably the best one

[@darrylsmith2551]

@@kapler79 Train the best

[@gibberconfirm425]

I got in deep with Coltrane for years and this is one of the best, no idea what he was thinking at the time in terms of commercialism or being hardcore. He might have been confused, I get this music 100%, 96% of people do not.

[@omarhamidi8140]

C le boss du saxophone, j espérer qu il joue toujour la haut.

[@cesarthemighty]

Coltrane have more than 40 albums bra, so thats part of the reason

[@meckel1271]

If I were in a position to buy something from Granger, I would vow never to do so. Shame on whoever placed that ad in Coltrane's second solo. What's next? Interrupt "Es ist volbraucht" in Bach's Johannes-Passion? The "Ode to Joy" in Beethoven's Ninth? "And now, a word from out sponsor" before the eighth movement of Messiaen's Quartor pour les fin du Temps?

[@melvinsmith2890]

This was Trane's Prayer for a Better World in the Masterpiece Transition unfortunately only a few can Hear so Trane had to Move on

[@strangersname]

Every time I listen to this album I am AWED and I am INSPIRED. Such beauty.

[@CrandMackerel]

The person who just had to make a buck off this by putting an ad in the middle of it has damaged their karma.

[@strangersname]

Blame it on YT or the record co. And get Adblock Plus

[@rorysharrock9889]

I thought I heard all of Coltrane's albums and then this pops up in my KZbin suggestions. Wow, this is good stuff.

[@ChromaticHarp]

Unreal! The quartet at its peak!!!

[@DominicCarioti]

Is anyone gonna talk about the magic that happens around 3'30"?

[@Chocolatiste]

Pushing it to the extrêmes, but landing so gracefully. Probably a climax in all of music

[@michaelraufer9290]

I would say divine magic ....

[@uowcagarazhy4754]

crazy. lived all my life without even knowing this album existed. How come?

[@alessandromarchesini9039]

Better late then never...

[@ArenaNath]

Vaya transición, lo mejor de Coltrane es que desgarra el tiempo, cambia la percepción del mismo y crea su propia fórmula.

[@Ayers76]

SUBLIME COLTRANE

[@Motty1066]

No-one makes that noise. It was and remains majesterial

[@bobcaldwellrocks]

I have this pop up in my KZbin feed, and I'm like okay I know this is Coltrane, and then I'm like the playing in this is ridiculously hot! Like some of the best ever, I got to listen to this album more!

[@kentuckyfathers8559]

This is mad, crazy...so thankful you posted it!

[@ShoyuTao]

The extended "2nd " solo on the piece groundbreaking!

[@UkuleleAversion]

Let's not forget how much Elvin contributes to the whole vibe

[@juliendespres6777]

@@UkuleleAversion si true ! Elvin Jones IS masterfull

[@gibberconfirm166]

I got obsessed with this stuff years back and "Transition" was one of my favorites even though Coltrane didn't see fit to make it an actual album release. Elvin, Tyner and everyone is in absolute top form and 7:28 is straight out of Joseph Campbell.

[@darudesandstorm5993]

@@gibberconfirm166 that’s funny cuz i’m reading the “hero with a thousand faces” rn

[@beefheart1410]

For me, and in no specific order of preference, as a leader in his own right, Coltrane's essential albums are: "Lush Life" "Soul Train". "Blue Train". "Giant Steps". "My Favourite Things". "Coltrane's Sound". "Coltrane Jazz". "Blue World". "Ole". "Africa / Brass". "Live 'Trane: The European Tours". "Live At The Village Vanguard". "Coltrane". "Both Directions At Once". "The John Coltrane Quartet Plays". "Impressions". "Live At Birdland". "Afro Blue Impressions". "Crescent". "A Love Supreme". "One Down, One Up: Live At The Half Note". "My Favourite Things: Coltrane At Newport". "Transition". "Kulu Se Mama". "Meditations". "First Meditations (For Quartet)". "Expression". "Stellar Regions".

[@nyvcr502]

To my ears; this album is a continuation of the music laid down in the album - A Love Supreme.

[@henryrutty9575]

I was thinking the same thing

[@nodas66]

Elvin!!!!!!!!!!

[@wardhilgers6217]

The is my favorite collection of songs/lp/cd by Coltrane.

[@sped2338]

...this was recorded on the day i was born...

[@rklionel]

Elvin's drumset perfectly in tune....and everything else transitioning as well.

[@IL-saxophonist]

33:39 - one of the best piano solo's I have ever heard.

[@reylagarto2265]

mcCoy tyner the best... listens "Afro-Blue (Live At The Half Note)" :)

[@DPOWER222]

Agreed 💯👍🏽🤎✊🏽

[@klausrain111]

I was fortunate enough to spend a month in Ethiopia in 1973 as a traveler. I heard music there quite similar to what Coltrane is doing here. Meaning, his music may have roots there.

[@baldurmoizisch6905]

The god(s) of Jazz! This is divine music!

[@recorr]

i like how Tyner is going rythmic without Elvin Jones

[@xanzpatrie]

"Welcome" is so beautiful

[@marcyfan-tz4wj]

that's what i'm talking about!

[@mabudfeyzullayev5926]

God of Jazz Muziс--John Coltrane

[@steftarget]

THE album

[@dankrebs4764]

You missed the best song on the whole album - Dear Lord.

[@kurthuebsch8981]

What song?

[@rinahall]

@@kurthuebsch8981 Dear Lord

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

STRONG SHIT. MAKES ALLL OTHER WORDS SOUND FEEBLE-MINDED ...

[@DominicCarioti]

Intensity

[@iancurtis6490]

once again McCoy

[@voriskinlaw9775]

If A Person Can't Hear That "Transition"Sounds Just Like It's Name🎼🎵🎶🎷🎷🎹🎹🎻Then They're Without A Clue Musically & Modally LOST!!!

[@chosesomething]

Tell me more. What does one look out for?

[@UkuleleAversion]

Don't think about it. Just listen to the music and enjoy. That's all there is to it.

[@luiselguera7056]

The energy developed by Trane here is ultra human

[@fontsize6973]

the way he quotes happy birthday on welcome... amazing

[@HenryR929]

You can feel they're all pouring out their heart and soul on to the music. A tear or two roll down my eye throughout this album

[@nathanwyatt7748]

What you’re feeling is the spirit of the time the music was created. Trane was deeply influenced by the social climate of the 60’s and did his best to resolve chaos through his performance. It was very personal and thus, cannot be duplicated. Enjoy!

[@ericperson56]

​​@@nathanwyatt7748 also Coltrane's ancestors were communicating through him. The energy, knowledge, and truth is within his musical language. I believe the creator wanted those things to come into our dimension at that time.

[@owenwright5266]

This is Coltrane at his best

[@henohenrich3452]

Coltrane at his best = Om & Meditations ;-)

[@AboubacarSiddikh]

30 years ago, when I was in my twenties, I would have agreed. But now, I would rate pieces like Dear Lord, Crescent, Alabama higher than that.

[@neitherblack]

I am now in my late twenties and Transition and Sun Ship are my favourite.

[@JS-dt1tn]

to see what one man accomplished in mere years and that those accomplishments can be so perfectly applicable to an infinite set of circumstances over an infinite set of time... makes you wonder.

[@gibberconfirm166]

Former obsessive Coltrane fan, Transition and Sun Ship are "underrated" by people who only pretend to like Coltrane (a fair number of hipster phonies). Best John Coltrane tenor solo is arguably Transition 2, if we're disqualifying Interstellar Space, best soprano Afro-Blue on Live in Japan, because they perfectly capture the Joseph Campbell hero's struggle to attain meaning in a world that is painful and meaningless. 7:28

[@williamnewtonwhitmire3075]

OH YEAH... he set the floor that freedom jazz dance,took place on.

[@erin.lynn.johnson_jacksonj4244]

Hallelujah Ephesians 6. ☁ 🔥 🌈

[@jlizoka]

On of a kind!🙏🏾 Majestic!❤

[@islamicchronicles5381]

THANK YOU

[@craigmoreland5697]

Ever Heard of Being Born Again By Asking GOD for forgiveness of your sins And That You Accept JESUS As Your LORD AND SAVIOR Because You Believe That JESUS Died On The Cross for Your sins and the sin of the World. Romans 10:9-13 John 1:29 John 3:16-18 GOD-JESUS LOVES You.

[@Vaf20]

HEALER

[@MegaCirse]

C'était les offres de cet ancien monde sauvage > vivre, partager, s'occuper, s'amuser et vivre ensemble. Malheureusement, nous avons été tellement concentrés sur le changement d'époque que nous n'avons pas eu le temps ou la conscience de s'organiser. Cependant l'esprit est toujours là, en attendant d'être reconnu et conscientisé encore et encore jusqu'à ce qu'il soit partout en élévation vers le Paradis des utopistes et autres rêveurs inconscients 💃💃👯💃

[@michaelarndt3823]

GOD speaks through Coltrane. He transcended beyond being one of the best saxophonists, he took improvising jazz to its highest level. He is among Bird, Brecker, and Corea, the greatest improvisors of all time.

[@62sunburstjazz78]

Allan holdsworth.

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

BR3CKER ....HAH !!! President of Ghana - Nkrumah, would play beddöhh ...

[@rickblackers88]

Phenomena

[@jiyujizai]

かなりいい‼️

[@TheBoffomundoShow]

Wicked!

[@bandicoot5412]

Dynamic

[@quartzphyre3483]

This is Fatima /Phat 5th

[@JimmyHendricks-pu9lg]

Great performance by the classic quartet. They always get it just right at this stage.

[@Sole-Survivor]

Liked/shared

[@joselekiwi5695]

1:03 coltrane played that kind of phrase a lot, can someone explain what is happening?

[@zippitydoodah8771]

Sheets of sound. He moves his fingers really fast and overblows the sax. He gets a floating shreds of ribbon type of effect

[@nachalnikamana]

Как "это невзьебенно" будет по английски? ))

[@sylshad757]

Au top

[@jiyujizai]

🌱🥀💚🙄

[@miguel-luistorrentsfont8711]

O

[@johnhanrahan566]

!

[@brentbrownjr.5303]

3:30!

[@mandem010]

8 Jazz critics have been here

[@julierudder9187]

Another one gone too soon 💔💔💔. His music 🎵 will live on forever.

[@ChromaticHarp]

Kenny G should reed this!!! With Strings!!!

[@GelsonBcJunior]

5:06 the lick, oh no

[@ricthecoolguy]

lmfao

[@ThePeanutButterCup13]

oh god why

[@ChromaticHarp]

Grow up! ‘The lick’ was 12 years ago…it’s not funny anymore.

[@SoldierSunday]

the 1st song makes me go "alright! enough!"

[@gregorybarton5386]

This magnificent Trane runs express. It does not stop at Squaresville. If you can't follow, can't keep up then go local.

[@Jamesp1972]

@@gregorybarton5386 haha great

[@ManuelOjeda-yo1yl]

@artyfhartie2269 hace 4 meses Man, I could not stop giggling. Maybe it's the good weed

[@0607233920]

Merci c’est un de mes albums préférés.

[@PhuckHue2]

Genius