Like Sonny

Like Sonny Artist: John Coltrane
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 077779390120
EAN: 0077779390120
ASIN: B000005HFY


Release Date: 1990-05-10

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Listmania:

  1. The Ultimate Coltrane
  2. John Coltrane's best

Tracks:

  1. One And Four (Aka. Mr. Day)
  2. Exotica (Alternate Take)
  3. Exotica
  4. Like Sonny (Aka. Simple Like)
  5. Essii's Dance
  6. Doxy
  7. Oleo
  8. I Talk To The Trees
  9. Yesterdays
  10. Angel Eyes

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  3. The Complete Savoy Sessions
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Very focused Trane .......2005-12-15

I agree with the previous reviewer which has perfectly described this recording. It is spiritualistic, joyful, happy, airy, fresh and optimistic music what Coltrane and Tyner played in this recording which stands between the Blue Note period and the Atlantic one. Trane seems really to have found what he really searched for. And he is in perfect shape. It's all in the openere, the fantastic Mr Day. Here he didn't play those long, solipsistic, boring sometimes I must admit, furios solos he played later in the end of his career. Here he's focused, melodic, with a fantastic sound. Tyner is the most Tyneresque piano player here. =))) Even if I'm joking a little bit, this album is not a joke. Simply some of the best Coltrane's music you can buy. If you have Favourite things, Ballads, Giant steps, Like Sonny, Crescent, Blue Train, Plays the blues, and few more things, you have the best Coltrane. If you want my opinion, stay away from his "spaced out" later period. Uh, I don't like A love supreme either. It's a way over-evaluated recording.

5 out of 5 stars An often overlooked gem.......2002-10-23

The outstanding tracks from this recording are the first four from a 1960 session with McCoy Tyner, Steve Davis and Billy Higgins. This session released on Roulette marks a bridge between Coltrane's Prestige/Blue Note recordings and those on Atlantic.
The quartet sounds fresh, relaxed and spontaneous, the session has an effervescent spirituality and transcendence that is more subtle and less weighty than some of his later "religious" recordings, e.g. A Love Supreme.
McCoy Tyner sounds light and joyous, and on these four cuts, Coltrane seems to have found whatever he was searching for all those years.
After listening to this album for over 25 years, it's haunting beauty continues to grow on me. It has always between my favourite Coltrane recording and possibly my favourite jazz album of all time. Do not overlook this recording!

4 out of 5 stars Coltrane at his most accessible.......2000-05-17

You won't find any of the incredible, epic solos that made Coltrane famous here; _Like Sonny_ can better be described as 'pleasant' than 'epic'. That's not to say it's bad, though, or even shallow, of course.. this is unmistakably Coltraneish (and Tynerish - actually, the first four tracks on this CD represent the first time they played together), but in a more playful frame of mood. (Hey, how serious can you be with a tuba as part of your jazz ensemble?) Rewards close listening, also rewards uncritical grooving to the beat.

My personal favourite tracks are "One and Four", the disc opener with the trademark Coltrane bass-then-drums-then-everyone-else opening and a casually sublime head, and "I Talk to the Trees", which starts with a neat drum solo and quickly reveals itself as a smouldering, effortlessly cool Latin groove.

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  2. Bobby Jaspar With George Wallington ~ Bobby Jaspar With George Wallington and Idrees Sulieman
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  4. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven ~ New York Jazz Collective
  5. Blue Hayes: The Tempo Anthology ~ Tubby Hayes
  6. Sonny's Crib ~ Sonny Clark
  7. Jazz Master Series: In Retrospect ~ Cleo Laine w, the John Dankworth Quartet
  8. Going Places ~ Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
  9. Lee Konitz and the Jazzpar All Star Nonet ~ Lee Konitz
  10. Good People ~ Javon Jackson

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Level Headed ~ Sweet

Bastion of Itchy Preeves ~ Cerberus Shoal

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Rock N Roll Is Here to... ~ Various Artists

G. A. Girlz 'N Da House ~ G.A. Girlz

X.O. Experience ~ Tha Liks

Big Ballin' ~ Lowc