hier gleich vom Anfang kann man Coltranes Einschätzung hören, die ich meinte… das Interview ist über einige Youtube Clips verteilt; mit das wichtigste ist allerdings bei 5:25, hier ist ein Transkript,
FK: „Did Impulse – did the reaction of Impulse to these, adverse criticisms, have anything to do with, those records that we talked about.“
JC: „The ballads…“
FK: „…the ballads and…“
JC: „…Well, I don’t know, I think Impulse was interested in havin‘ a…, a what they might call…, a balanced sort of thing – a diversified sort of a …catalogue, …you know… and, I’d have found nothing wrong with this myself. …you see I like… …in fact most of the songs I even write now or have been written, the ones which I really consider songs are ballads.“ < chuckle> „…’cause there is… something there that, I mean, I really love these things.“
FK: „Well they’re beautiful…“
JC: „…and … I felt…“
FK: „I’ve another question about that…“
JC: „…and these ballads that came out… were definitely ones which I felt – at this time, and I chose them. It seemed to be something that was layin‘ around in my mind, from my,“ < chuckle> „you know, youth or somewhere, that I just had to do. And they came at this time when the confidence in what I was doin‘ on the horn had flagged, it seemed to be just the time to clean that out. And then Johnny Hartman, the man that I had – stuck up in my mind somewhere – I just felt sump’m about him, y’know, I don’t know what it was. …And, I liked his sound, I felt there was somethin‘ there I had to – hear, y’know? So I – looked him up… And did that album, see…and, although I realize – I don’t regret doin‘ those things at all.“
FK: „You shouldn’t“
JC: „…no, no..“
FK: „…because that album – Johnny Hartman went with, in my opinion, went with the quartet perfectly – those are – those are the only six songs that I know the words to.“ < laugh>
JC: „Y’see ah, me too.“
FK: „Was it six or eight…six“
JC: „Yeah, I don’t regret doin‘ those.“
FK: „No, no.“
JC: „The only thing I, I regret not havin‘, you know, …kept that same attitude which was, you know, ‚I’m gonna‘ do – no matter what.‘. That was the attitude in the beginning. But ah, as I say… there was a whole lot of reasons why“ < chuckle> „…these things just happen.“
FK: „You have ups and downs and that was one of the downs.“
JC: „Yeah, that was one of the downs.“
das mit dem Mundstück steht weiter oben… das Interview ist auch komplett in Simpkins Buch
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