John Coltrane's "India" -- Classic or Totally Sublimely Classic?

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I was listening to the version on the Live at Village Vanguard Master Takes on my drive home today and I played it three times in a row. At 3:22 when the high note breaks made me want to cry and most of Dolphy's clarinet solo is just absolutely brilliant. Coltrane had the lungs of God during this song.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

always grebt. i used to work in a music library and i'd play that jam over and over just like you.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Sunday, 24 December 2006 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Orgasmically classic. That whole fucking four disc set too - fuck, I want to listen to it now.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

The version on Disc 2 of that box set is the best thing Coltrane ever recorded. That droning oud gets me every time.

― No Time Before Time (Barry Barry), Sunday, 24 December 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I still have never heard the Vanguard box. I've got the single disc version and "Chasing the Trane" is about as perfect as it gets.

― mcd (mcd), Sunday, 24 December 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay I must get the box now.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah i need to hear this.

not enough coltrane in my life.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

the box has four versions of 'india' and one of the first things I did was rip and burn all four of them to a single hour-long disc

this and 'africa' from africa / brass are the first things I play for someone who asks me why I own so many 60's coltrane records

― milton parker (milton parker), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The version of "Spiritual" on Disc 1 (I think?) of the Complete Vanguard tapes tops anything else on there in my opinion, making "India" better than "classic" but less than "Totally Sublimely Classic." Perhaps merely "Totally classic"?

― novaheat (novaheat), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Milton, that is a fucking brilliant idea. I am going to do that.

I'm quite fond of Brasilia too, and the Impressions take without the Dolphy solo (though the one with is good too)

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I've only got the VV box to hand - which version was originally on Impressions?

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I meant the take OF Impressions from the VV box that doesn't have a Dolphy solo, not a take of Brasilia.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

No, my mistake, I wasn't clear. I want to hear the originally released version of "India."

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link

chasin' the trane = godlike elvin jones

― amon (amon), Thursday, 28 December 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man I gotta get this. I have a double LP of "The Other Village Vanguard Tapes" that has a 15:25 version, but that's it.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 28 December 2006 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link

not india, but this is sorta neat: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZRnkBK_0no

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Thursday, 28 December 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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