r/Jazz • u/redflagmusic • 23h ago
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
So much wisdom and taste.
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u/dtrane90 22h ago
Lush life is my favorite song of all time
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u/Tir_na_nOg77 19h ago
This vocal version cannot be topped, and of course, Trane's playing is great as well.
I've always been surprised that one of my top 3 favorite sax players, Ben Webster, does not seem to have ever made a recording of Lush Life. It's so right up his alley, and I know he would have played it so well.
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u/Churnthebutternow 22h ago
Best version ever of Lush Life!
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u/blue_navigator 22h ago
“I'll live a lush life
In some small dive
And there I'll be
While I rot with the rest
Of those whose lives are lonely, too” -> saxophone. SO GOOD.
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u/Born-Ad8797 21h ago
Lush Life en esta version es de lo mejor que he escuchado en mi vida! Ya de por si es una gran cancion, pero esto es espectacular....y el momento del solo.....alucinante!!!
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u/Mistephake 21h ago
If you listen to this after a break up be warned! It took me a while to get Hartman’s croon but Coltrane and his band are all in. ❤️
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u/StrongChocolate869 6h ago
Y’all might wanna check out this new album, just for fun. I guess you’d call it a cover album. Not as good of course but still very good. And kind of a ballsy thing to do.
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u/Educational-Milk5099 4h ago
That is a great album. Coltrane is brilliant, of course, and Hartman is as smooth as it gets.
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u/Balilives 23h ago
This is the only Coltrane album from the 60s that I listen to.
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u/NickLidstrom 20h ago
Are you just not into Coltrane?
Giant Steps, My Favourite Things, Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Live at Birdland, A Love Supreme, Ascension... that's pretty much all of his best work IMO
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u/microtherion 22h ago
It’s kind of crazy that the same lineup (minus Hartman) recorded what became Both Directions at Once the day before! Huge contrast between the two albums (but I like both of them).
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u/makokomo 22h ago
Legend is that they were hanging out and both owed Impulse a record. Two birds, one stone.
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u/confit_byaldi 22h ago
Some recordings seem to fit certain seasons best. This one is pure autumn to me.
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u/spmpop75 21h ago
Oh yeah what an album . Recorded in NJ, most all song were one take. McCoy Tyner on piano. Amazing stuff.
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u/interglossa 20h ago
Hartman's voice sounds as much like a sax as could be encountered.
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u/makokomo 10h ago
I always heard it as the sound of a honey and butter glaze slowly soaking into crushed velvet, but that’s just me.
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u/JumpAndTurn 18h ago
A beautiful album in every way. “My one and only love” is my favorite track on the album.
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u/tommars73 8h ago
beautiful album. I generally don't like vocals in jazz but this album is the exception.
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u/No-Context8421 5h ago
My favorite album for the Holidays. Always has been.
People give me funny looks when I say this and I point out that it’s even got a Christmas tee on the cover.
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u/stonesober35 23h ago
The best male vocal/ sax accomp. I ever heard.
Maybe the best ever