IN A
SENTIMENTAL MOOD
JOHN
COLTRANE
SONGWRITERS: DUKE ELLINGTON; IRVING MILLS & MANNY
KURTZ
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: COLTRANE FOR LOVERS
LABEL: ATLANTIC
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2001
John
William Coltrane (Hamlet, September 23, 1926 - New York, July 17, 1967) was an
American jazz saxophonist and composer, having performed mainly during the
fifties and sixties. Commonly considered by specialized critics as the greatest
jazz tenor sax and one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of all
time. His influence in the world of music goes beyond the boundaries of Jazz,
ranging from Rock to Classical Music.
Born in
North Carolina, the grandson of an evangelical minister, John Coltrane grew up
in High Point and New Jersey in a time of severe racial segregation in the
mid-twenties, having had a poor childhood, like most black children of that
time in his country. His interest in music started due to his father who played
several musical instruments and who encouraged him to study music. During his
adolescence, Coltrane lost several relatives, such as his aunt, grandfather and
father. These losses would mark him for his entire life.
Coltrane
began his career playing in various big bands after the end of World War II. He
played with several jazz giants such as Dizzy Gillespie and Paul Chambers
(later he would play with him again in the Miles Davis quintet-sextet).
From 1955
to 1960 he was part of Miles Davis' historic quintet, having participated in
memorable albums such as Cookin', Relaxin', Steamin', 'Round About Midnight and
Workin', all from 1956. The following year he recorded his first albums as
leader, with Blue Train reaching greater prominence in the jazz scene. This was
his first major phase as a musician, although it was a very difficult period in
his personal life, due to an addiction to heroin, acquired in the late forties.
This was the reason why Miles Davis fired him at the end of 1956. In 1957 he
was hired by the great pianist Thelonious Monk and recorded a few albums with
him, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane being the most recognized.
In 1958, Coltrane was rehired by Miles Davis starting his
great phase as a sideman. In the coming years, he would record two albums that
would go down in Jazz History:
* Milestones (1958), a great Cool Jazz album.
* Kind of Blue (1959), the iconic album of Cool Jazz.
The Miles Davis sextet, in addition to John Coltrane, had
two other great jazz musicians: the famous pianist Bill Evans and the great
bassist Paul Chambers. This album was one of the biggest hits in the history of
the genre.
In 1960, after leaving Miles' group, Coltrane began a new
phase, leading a quartet with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on double
bass and Elvin Jones on drums, and began a bold and unprecedented exploration
of jazz sound space. Coltrane developed an absolutely unique style, where the
so-called sheets of sound (sheets or layers of sound) predominated, which were
composed of long phrases of fast notes played in legato. Coltrane embarks on a
radicalization of harmony that takes him to the brink of atonality. It also
fragments and deconstructs the themes, leaving them almost unrecognizable under
a jam of tortured phrases. Coltrane's quartet production between 1960 and 1965
is a milestone in jazz history, comparable to Miles' quintet. Coltrane's
several, very long and impressive versions of My Favorite Things, Rodgers and
Hammerstein's apparently banal waltz, are anthological. In 1965 the quartet
creates what is unanimously considered their masterpiece, the four-movement
suite A Love Supreme.
Although coming from hard bop, Coltrane from 1955 to 1965
could already be considered in some sense a forerunner of free jazz. However,
in 1965, his connection with the avant-garde became even more direct, when he
joined free musicians such as drummer Rashied Ali, saxtenorists Archie Shepp
and Pharoah Sanders, among others. His wife, pianist Alice Coltrane, also
accompanies him in this new, daring and short phase. The disc Ascension is a
masterpiece of that period, already detached from tonal harmony. Quite
religious, Coltrane imbued his works from 1965-1967 with a strong religious and
mystical content. He died suddenly and prematurely in 1967 at the age of 40
from liver cancer. After his death, a large amount of unpublished recordings
were located and released, allowing the public to better assess how monumental
his work is.
"In a Sentimental Mood" is a jazz composition by Duke Ellington. He
composed the piece in 1935 and recorded it with his orchestra during the same
year. so the song was credited to all three. Other popular versions in 1935/36
were by Benny Goodman and by Mills Blue
Rhythm Band.
In A Sentimental Mood
I can see the stars come thru my room
While your loving attitude
Is like a flame that lights the gloom
On the wings of ev'ry kiss
Drift a melody so strange and sweet
In this sentimental bliss you make my
Paradise complete
Rose pearls seem to fall
It's all like a dream to call you mine
My heart's lighter thing
Since you made me this night a thing divine
In A Sentimental Mood
I'm within a world so heavenly
For I never dreamt
That you'd be loving sentimental me
In A Sentimental Mood
I can see the stars come thru my room
While your loving attitude
Is like a flame that lights the gloom
On the wings of ev'ry kiss
Drift a melody so strange and sweet
In this sentimental bliss you make my
Paradise complete
Rose pearls seem to fall
It's all like a dream to call you mine
My heart's lighter thing
Since you made me this night a thing divine
In A Sentimental Mood
I'm within a world so heavenly
For I never dreamt
That you'd be loving sentimental me.
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