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John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman (Dig) |  | Artists: John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman
Label: Impulse Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  149 reviews
Sales Rank: 2299
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
UPC: 602517648975
EAN: 0602517648975
ASIN: B0018RWD6S
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | They Say It's Wonderful - John Coltrane, Berlin, Irving | | • | Dedicated to You - John Coltrane, Cahn, Sammy | | • | My One and Only Love - John Coltrane, Gershwin, George | | • | Lush Life - John Coltrane, Strayhorn, Billy | | • | You Are Too Beautiful - John Coltrane, Hart, Lorenz | | • | Autumn Serenade - John Coltrane, DeRose, Peter |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
This is one of the three all-ballad albums that John Coltrane recorded in late 1962 and early 1963. Johnny Hartman was apparently Coltrane's suggestion, and his deep, dark voice meshes perfectly here with Coltrane's tenor. The material is well-chosen, including definitive readings of "My One and Only Love" and "Lush Life." McCoy Tyner fills out the chords, augmenting the harmonies and keeping the tone of these ballads respectful but not overly sentimental. All the players get to the deep structure of the songs and are not afraid to play in the most essential and elegant manner. This is beautiful jazz. --Michael Monhart
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The Perfect Jazz Album May 23, 2010
GRB (Mt Airy, Maryland)
What else can be said about this album, it is superb. Coltrane is not sideman, he is second voice as someone else stated. He plays perhaps more understated than on some others, but there is no mistaking it is his horn and some of his best ballad work. Hartman's voice is the perfect match to Coltrane's tenor sax. Even if you are not a jazz fan, you should own this album. Great rythm section great song choices, it just doesn't get any better than this.
...and a bit of history December 22, 2009
SingingPhoenix (Pompton Lakes, NJ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A friend introduced me to this album and the story behind it. I fell in love with it within the first few notes.
There is a great story that he shared with me. You see, my friend went to hear Hartman in the early 80s at a club in Englewood, NJ, where the album was originally recorded. Hartman himself gave him a copy on vinyl telling him, it was the album of which he was most proud.
As another reviewer said, it was Coltrane's idea. Hartman wasn't so sure and went to meet Coltrane in NYC. They talked, tried a few things and decided to do it.
It was literally on the way to the recording studio when they heard Nat King Cole's rendition of "Lush Life" playing on the car radio that Hartman said they should include it. He didn't know all of the words, and they had to get them for him that day. There is only one track that required a second take, and that was only because the drummer dropped a stick. This album is pure musical alchemy that happens only when you bring the greats together, and even they become more than the sum of their parts.
"One And Only" November 29, 2009
Kevin Keating (Brooklyn, NY)
I've been trying to find this album again after first falling in love with "My One And Only Love" about 8 years ago (probably due to a girl). For the life of me, I couldn't locate it anywhere on my computer's hard drive (somehow the only track I had that didn't make it after my last machine crashed), nor could I remember its name nor the artists.
I knew (or thought I knew) it had the word "Love" and had a tenor sax, but as powerful as Google is, it couldn't tell me the answer, nor could it tell me that, "duh, John Coltrane was the most obvious answer, what was I thinking?!"
Tonight, Sonny Rollins' cover of this track started playing from my iTunes library and within seconds it all came flooding back. Coltrane, Hartman, tenor sax, bari vocals, Tyner on keys, gorgeously restrained bass and percussion, and all of these beautiful, romantic, and deeply-considered gems. Just downloaded it and fell back in love.
You'd be well advised to do the same.
Are You Kidding????????? November 20, 2009
Michael J. Klementovich (Bethlehem PA)
They call this CD good.........WHO ARE YOU ALL TRYING TO KID??????
This is NOT a good CD this is a SUPERCALAFRAGILISTIC CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It does NOT get any better then this..........
PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!
God Himself Couldnt Top This One.... October 16, 2009
Paul Dailey (Boston, MA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own this album on vinyl, cassette, CD, and now as a remastered download....and I would buy it 20 more times, and still not feel I paid too much. "My One and Only Love" is the most perfect jazz ballard every recorded - and the rest, with Trane and Johnny bouncing back and forth with such skill and ease, and McCoy Tyner just sprinkling brilliance around the outside. This is perfection on a par that can never and will never be matched.
The greatest jazz disc in my collection - and that is saying a lot, since there are about 15,000 jazz discs in it. Brilliant!!
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