#Jimmy Garrison

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1966 - John Coltrane Quintet - Shinjuku Kosei Nenkin Hall - Tokyo

John Coltrane (ss, as, ts), Alice Coltrane (p), Pharoah Sanders (as, ts, bcl), Jimmy Garrison (b), Rashied Ali (dr)

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Jimmy Garrison with the John Coltrane Quartet in Paris, France, 1962. Photo by Michel Salou.

Source: AFRO BLUE CATS

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“The Coltrane Quartet was like four pistons in an engine - John, Elvin, Jimmy and I were working to make the car go.”

-McCoy Tyner

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John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones

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"A Love Supreme" - Alice Coltrane, Jazz Jamboree, Warsaw, Poland, October 23, 1987

Just about 60 years ago this week, John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner went out to Van Gelder Recording Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, to record A Love Supreme. Obviously, this record has become a monument over the decades — much more than just a record. But I always wonder whether the Coltrane Quartet thought of it as anything more than just another date, at least at first; after all, the group minus Coltrane also recorded McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington that week, too — a great, but very different vibe! "We didn't talk about a lot of things," Tyner said. "I mean, I didn't know what we were going to do. We couldn't really explain why things came together so well, you know, and why it was, you know, meant to be. I mean, it's hard to explain things like that."

Yeah it is! But here's the late/great Greg Tate doing a pretty good job of it:

"What the Coltrane quartet had was two of music's more elusive qualities in combination — namely, melody and gravitas. You can hear them in certain Black voices that came to fore in the '60s — Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X — and in certain rappers today like Rakim, Nas, GZA. But the Coltrane Quartet, like King, also gave voice and timbre to their heaviest burden, a swollen, implacable compassion for the human condition that required that everything they had be laid on the line. You can't buy that level of commitment off a rack, download it from the Net neither, and you damn sure can't fake it. You can only deliver it from evil and maybe even bleed for it: Tyner has said he knew it was time for him to leave the band when he saw Trane bleeding from the mouth while blowing and not even seeming to care. That degree of indefatigable discipline and unbridled passion can still render so many fans of the quartet speechless, enchanted, focused, uplifted." 

Enchanted, focused, uplifted — that's what you'll be after checking out a sublime video of Alice Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane, Reggie Workman and Roy Haynes (who sadly just passed away at the age of 99 this fall) tackling some Love Supreme themes in Warsaw about two decades after John left this earth. ELATION — ELEGANCE — EXALTATION.

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John Coltrane Quartet

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John Coltrane Quartet • My Favorite Things • Live in Comblain-La-Tour, Belgium, 1965

Soprano Saxophone - John Coltrane Piano - Mccoy Tyner Bass - Jimmy Garrison Drum - Elvin Jones

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Jimmy Garrison, Matthew Garrison, Val Wilmer

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John Coltrane - Crescent. 1964 : Impulse! A 66.

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John Coltrane’s last band in the recording studio, 1966. Trane in front, Pharoah Sanders with flute and tenor sax, Rashied Ali way in the back on drums, Jimmy Garrison on bass, Alice Coltrane at the piano

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The John Coltrane Quartet. (L to R): Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane and Jimmy Garrison

(English / Español)

In 1960 John Coltrane travelled to Europe for the first time, where he received a great reception. On his return he decided to form his own group. It was in 1960 and it was formed by the pianist McCoy Tyner, the double bass player Steve Davis, later replaced by the definitive Jimmy Garrison, and the drummer Elvin Jones. The change to modal music began in October 1960 when they recorded the song "My Favorite Things" and incorporated the soprano saxophone into their repertoire, an instrument that no one had incorporated into modern jazz since the days of Sidney Bechet, with the exception of Steve Lacy.

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En 1960 John Coltrane viaja por primera vez a Europa donde es recibido multitudinariamente. A su regreso decide formar su propio grupo. Es en 1960 y lo forman el pianista, McCoy Tyner, el contrabajista, Steve Davis, sustituido luego por el definitivo, Jimmy Garrison, y el batería, Elvin Jones. El cambio a la música modal se inicia en octubre de 1960 cuando graba el tema: «My Favorite Things» e incorpora a su repertorio el saxo soprano, un instrumento que desde los tiempos de Sidney Bechet y con la excepción de Steve Lacy, nadie lo había incorporado al jazz moderno.

Fuente: Pasión por el Jazz y Blues.

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afro blue ... I want to talk about you ... the promise - john coltrane (live at birdland 8/10/1963)

rainy day, dream away … 1983 (a merman I should turn to be) … moon, turn the tides gently gently away  -  the jimi hendrix experience  (electric ladyland)