Without a doubt, this is a must-have in every jazz collection. John Coltrane influenced almost every jazz saxophone player on the planet and this is one of his key albums. Pure hard bop, copied often, but this is the real thing.. Here's the whole album:
Many young jazz players think that it was all recorded at once which might be true, but they forget that extensive touring preceded the recordings They might not have been rehearsing so much but when playing together for months every day they were shaping their band sound and getting to know each other's reflexes and musical language. To me this album is a great example of acoustic jazz with a playful rhythm section and storytelling soloists. I love Lee Morgan's trumpet solos. A true gem from the fifties.
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - Without a doubt, this is a must-have in every jazz collection. John Coltrane influenced almost every jazz saxophone player on the planet and this is one of his key albums. Pure hard bop, copied often, but this is the real thing.. Here's the whole album:Many young jazz players think that it was all recorded at once which might be true, but they forget that extensive touring preceded the recordings They might not have been rehearsing so much but when playing together for months every day they were shaping their band sound and getting to know each other's reflexes and musical language. To me this album is a great example of acoustic jazz with a playful rhythm section and storytelling soloists. I love Lee Morgan's trumpet solos. A true gem from the fifties.
