After the Rain--live versions of "After the Rain" by Coltrane?

[Milestones]

I have never heard a live version by the Classic Quartet performing this great piece. 

It may be may be my favorite Coltrane piece ever, and that's saying something. 

As most of you know, on the studio version Roy Haynes was the drummer--and his performance IMO is perfect.

I am wondering how Elvin would have handled it, or did handle it.

Elvin does play drums on the album After the Rain by John McLaughlin, including the title piece as the final number.  One can say it is vintage Elvin, but it does seem a bit heavy for this particular piece.

Anyway, I'm just a bit curious.

 

 

 

[mikeweil]

Lord has this entry:

John Coltrane (p) solo
     Live "The Showboat", Philadelphia, PA, June 10, 1963
After the rain    RLR Records (Sp)RLR88657 [CD]

Coltrane on piano?!?!?

https://www.discogs.com/release/5076049-John-Coltrane-Trio-Quartet-More-Live-At-The-Showboat-1963

"McCoy Tyner was late that day, and so Trane played the first three tunes and most of the fourth in the unusual trio format of tenor sax/bass/drums! CD also has the only existing testimony of Trane at the piano!"

Edited 20 hours ago by mikeweil

[ghost of miles]

6 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

Lord has this entry:

John Coltrane (p) solo
     Live "The Showboat", Philadelphia, PA, June 10, 1963
After the rain    RLR Records (Sp)RLR88657 [CD]

Coltrane on piano?!?!?

https://www.discogs.com/release/5076049-John-Coltrane-Trio-Quartet-More-Live-At-The-Showboat-1963

McCoy Tyner was late that day, and so Trane played the first three tunes and most of the fourth in the unusual trio format of tenor sax/bass/drums! CD also has the only existing testimony of Trane at the piano!

Yep, I've heard this! Part of the Tiberi holdings, I'd imagine? Release the tapes!!!

[mikeweil]

Does anybody here have that CD?

It's on YouTube!

 

Edited 19 hours ago by mikeweil

[romualdo]

1 hour ago, mikeweil said:

"McCoy Tyner was late that day, and so Trane played the first three tunes and most of the fourth in the unusual trio format of tenor sax/bass/drums! CD also has the only existing testimony of Trane at the piano!"

according to The Coltrane Reference (p683), JC played unaccompanied piano during the intermission - there's a lot of talking in the background of the recording but the piano is very audible - it's a fascinating listen

[Milestones]

This certainly went into a different direction.  I would think most of are hearing Trane on piano for the first time.

Given the audience noise, they must have assumed he was no Tyner--and that is true.

 

 

[romualdo]

from Session Notes, p 683 (Coltrane Reference)

Private recording by Alan Sukoenig, who recorded with a portable tape recorder at the club; the tapes are currently in the collection of the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS), Rutgers, New Jersey. These mono audio recordings are of listenable audio quality; they feature powerful Coltrane solos (particularly his cadenza on "I Want To Talk About You") and deserve to be released through official channels.

[bertrand]

24 minutes ago, romualdo said:

from Session Notes, p 683 (Coltrane Reference)

Private recording by Alan Sukoenig, who recorded with a portable tape recorder at the club; the tapes are currently in the collection of the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS), Rutgers, New Jersey. These mono audio recordings are of listenable audio quality; they feature powerful Coltrane solos (particularly his cadenza on "I Want To Talk About You") and deserve to be released through official channels.

Same guy who recorded Hassan.

 

 

 

[colinmce]

Marilyn Crispell does a phenomenal solo piano version, which was itself the inspiration for Joe McPhee's gorgeous solo soprano rendition that was recorded playing into the old Village Gate piano that McCoy Tyner once performed on: