Inspiriert durch den Naima Artikel hab ich gerade nochmal bei Simpkins nachgelesen, was da so zu Ballads steht…
Coltrane: „I think Impulse was interested in having a balanced sort of thing, a diversified sort of catalog, and I find nothing wrong with that myself. You see, I like […] ballads. So there’s something there that I mean I really love these things.“
Thiele: „Here I was working for a record company and concerned about how well our records would sell and we have a credit who comes along and says John Coltrane’s records are windy, flat and need editing etc… I figured we had better go in and see if we can get John to some melodic things, do some standard tunes.“
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Coltrane – Live At Birdland
und jetzt geht es weiter, hier hab ich natuerlich zuerst nochmal Amiri Baraka’s liner notes gelesen, das Statement, das Coltrane dadurch macht, dass er in einem Kommerztempel wie dem Birdland diese Musik spielt… Auch Simpkins hat ein paar interessante Details: „Your Lady [der letzte Track] gets its name from Naima. This was the term she used when speaking to John in reference to Alice.“ Haette man auch nicht gedacht, das Coltrane mal eben eine Phrase aus dem Umfeld seiner Scheidung unter den Songtiteln unterbringt…
(die Aufnahme ist von November 63, ueber April/Mai des selben Jahres schreibt Simpkins, biblisch wie immer: „Around this time John met a femals musician who was to become his second wife. His and Naima’s problems had created a distance between them. The musician’s name was Alice McLeod.“)
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