Coltrane "Black Pearls" - Question

[Gheorghe]

Hello !

On my CD the composer of that tune is "unknown". But the tune sounds so familiar to me, I´m sure I heard it on some other record from about that time, with another title.

I´m not sure, but it might be on a BlueNote album of some BN Artist, maybe Art Blakey or Lee Morgan. Maybe, on a Prestige -Album, anyway something from that period.

Does somebody have an idea, what´s the name of the same tune on other recordings. Since I don´t remember where I heard it before and don´t remember the title, it would be hard for me to listen through all my BN , Prestige, Riverside - albums because I got hundreds of them.....

[mjzee]

In the Fearless Leader box, Coltrane is listed as composer.

[Gheorghe]

well I don´t have no box, but after I posted that question, the melody came thru my mind with the chord progressions and all, as it usually does if I got some music in my head.

Well, in my head, in my mind it sounds like some Benny Golson stuff, the way it´s composed, and how the chords run.

Maybe it´s under another title on some early Lee Morgan BN stuff, because Golson wrote a lot of stuff for Lee during that time. We´ll see what´s about that tune.....

[aparxa]

Benny Green recorded "Black Pearl", in 1958 on BN Soul Stirrin', a composition of Bill Graham according to Wikipedia.

[Gheorghe]

Thank you !

Well yes, I got that album but haven´t listened to it recently. So I´ll give it a listening again.

Yes, I was sure it must have been on some BN album. I got all 3 Benny Green albums on BN, but must admit I didn´t pay much attention to them after listening 2 or 3 times.

[mikeweil]

The Bill Graham tune Bennie Green recorded was "Black Pearl" without the "s" - should be a tune different from the Coltrane one - haven't got the time for comparative listening right now, though.

[Gheorghe]

That´s also my problem, right now I don´t have the time for listening.

If its not the tune on tne Bennie Green album, I´ll have to listen to many BN from the 50´s to find the tune. I still believe it could be under another title, and it really has strong relations to the way Benny Golson writes.

Anyway, a really nice tune like many from that period. Not hard to remember, easy to play , just a nice little tune.....

[Niko]

what do you mean by "should be a different one?" I didn't listen carefully and I'm really not good at this type of thing but they did sound the same to me

[mjzee]

They do sound similar. It's easy to compare them using iTunes.

[JSngry]

Same tune.

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