-talks about coltrane's best albums -doesn't mention my favourite things or a love supreme

John Coltrane died in ‘67. That might be why he ‘peaked’ in the early to mid ‘60s. Lmao

More jazz reviews please!

Honestly I think you got it mixed up mr melon. This album is called The *Lost* album because it was literally a Coltrane album that the record label just didn't release at the time. It's full of alternate takes and what not but keep in mind most albums from Coltrane at that time were 3-4 tracks and this would feature the album recording of the legendary "One Up, One Down" which until now there were only live versions from. This is the most important jazz release of the decade because of its historical context, not because it's better or worse then what's happening now. To get an idea, Kamasi's thing is very much based upon what Pharoah Sanders did and Pharoah idolized Coltrane and even got to play with him on his later recordings. Honestly I'm just happy that you're bringing Jazz up on this channel and that more people come in contact with this beautiful things, just make sure you yourself make the complete research. That's your responsibility as the "world's biggest music critic" #domorejazzmrmelon

Alice Coltrane, John's wife was incredible and doesn't receive enough recognition

Melon hitting Coltrane with that Not Good RIP Coltrane

At the end of the day it's JC playing the sax, Mr.Tyner playing the piano, Jimmy Garrison on the Bass and Elvin on the drums which is always a joy to listen to.

Melon, I love you and you really educated me in so many ways during all that years. I'm really thankfull for you gettin me into bands like Swans, Death Grips an so on... But your jazzgame is just not up to par

Adamthony Neeltano

Is there a compilation of Besthony Teethtano saying "at the end of the day"?

Strange that you say it "runs like a compilation" when it's pretty clear that the Coltrane quartet went into the session this album was recorded in to... record an album. If Both Directions at Once runs like a compilation, then what the hell was untitled unmastered?

Says a Coltrane record isn't as significant as modern jazz artists. Literally mentions only Kamasi Washington.

"Black Focus" (2016) by Yussef Kamaal and "Antiphon" (2017) by Alfa Mist are both excellent recent jazz records (besides the ones Anthony already mentioned in the video, loved "Your Queen is a Reptile"). I can't recommend them enough, if you are a fan of the genre. But don't go listen to these albums thinking you will hear "Kind of Blue", or "Monk's Dream", or whathever jazz album you think is "the best". These records are their own, new, fresh thing. Edit: Oh God, and how could I forget BADBADNOTGOOD?

This lost album kinda reminds of some of the tracks off of A Love Supreme. Which imo is the greatest jazz record of all time

put the score in the description please

Went to a Jazz festival in the UK last weekend, the genre is definitely still thriving. Nubya Garcia, Alfa Mist, Tom Misch, Yazz Ahmed, Portico Quartet are all brilliant new artists/ groups

Glad to hear you talk about jazz, hope you do so more often!

Ambrose Akinmusire is releasing some of the BEST modern jazz I've ever heard. He's really bending the genre and making something new out of it. Also a killin trumpet player!

Kaamal Willians just dropped a pretty nice album

My favorite Jazz album is Late Registration

dawg coltrane wasn't around in the 70s. man was dead

Love you melon. Wasn't going to pester you about Coltrane, because you've got a lot of big names to review, and didn't think you were a fan, but so glad you gave it some attention (and also didn't leap on the bandwagon of "It's Coltrane, it must be an absolute essential classic"). Keep up the good work. Also, while you were talking about jazz releases this year pushing boundaries, the Trio HLK album this year is well worth your time, really mind-blowing stuff (if you have the time for yet another record amid your busiest few weeks)

I would definitely like to see more jazz reviews from you. I've been recently getting back into the genre and I'd love to hear about modern artists and really more of your opinions on jazz in general. I discovered Robert Glasper and Kamasi not too long ago and I've definitely been wanting more.

Yes Anthony pls give us more Jazz related content/reviews!!

Thanks for posting!

lil pump gets a 7 coltrane gets a "It's ok, it's decent, it's fine." 1:17

Looking forward to hearing this entire record. Thanks Melon! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

“Early 70’s” Coltrane died in 1967 :(

Would love for you to be doing more contemporary jazz reviews. The UK scene is ALIVE

I don't know dude I just drink blood dude

"early 70's" Damn, that dude must've been really hip to put out albums after his death

melon why don't you do more jazz reviews I'm actually shocked at how knowledgeable you are. I agree completely with your thoughts on this album. would love to hear your thoughts on more modern groups like the bad plus and groups like high risk

in comparison to the sax quartets of today's young lions,that of john coltrane's has not only withstood the test of time but could really just blow most of them off the bandstand in a cutting contest.and,check out elvin's drums in the foreground of the album cover,he was able to display virtuoso technique on a very basic and small kit.bravo,jc 4tet,you've done it again!

Good review mate

I appreciate that you acknowledged this, melon. 💕

I get what you’re saying, but it would be great to see you reviewing and bringing more attention to these places like the UK. There’s been waaaay more in jazz than just Sons of Kemet from there this year.

Bro for real review more jazz records Im a jazz musician dope to see you talking about it !!

THANK YOU

Where's that month late serpentwithfeet review?

i dig that subtle nod to bags and trane.

You forgot to mention Binker and Moses when you were talking about the current UK jazz scene. They released an awesome record this year!

nice video to relax to great job

Jazzthony Handstano

Thanks for makin this even tho you said you wouldnt

Coltrane was lisa's best cat

JOHNTHANY COLTRANETANO

Melon, Coltrane died in 1967, can't drop albums in the early 70's if you're dead ya silly goose

What impressed me so much with this recording is that McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones seem to be playing at their absolute creative peaks. Tyner sounds as good as he did on My Favourite Things and Elvin is arguably even more technically astounding than he was on A Love Supreme.

Haven't gotten around to listening to it yet. I just think its neat we get some unheard Coltrane that was thought to be lost. Not really expecting to be blown away like I was with A Love Supreme though.

The mark guiliana quartet is another great example of great current jazz acts

I totally agree about what you said about rock and jazz going threw similar growing pains. People will often just pass jazz off as a 30s threw 60s genre. They just stick to those familiar and safe sounds. But when you do that genres die. This need to change in entertainment for there to be good content.

definitely need to know more jazz. barely have any in my collection

Jazz is jazz, it goes where it wants.

It would be cool to see some reviews or commentary on the new releases of jazz artists like Joe Lovano, Peter Bernstein, Mike Moreno, Chris Potter, Jonathan Kreisberg etc. who are really carrying on jazz with the language of old players combined with modern senses of rhythm and harmony. Some of the jazz acts you mention are cool but not really on the level of these modern masters and others who are out in NYC just absolutely shredding. It would be nice to see some of them featured for the sheer quality and experimentation in their music, but also to push these artists into the ears of people who arent already jazz fans. Many of the "modern" jazz artists featured here and really just hip R&B, which I dig but it does not even approach the musicianship of some of the artists mentioned above. Thank you

Do 'I Hate Mars Bars'.

More and more melon you find a way to piss me off

I’d very much appreciate you reviewing mo jazz

Ayyyyy i thought you weren't going to review Kamasi's new new

"The Fear" from Year of the Snitch is the Jazz song of the year.

Gotta mention Kamaal Williams and Yussef Dayes melon.

KEK the first thing he thought of for a classic rock album was Physical Graffiti.

Drake's Scoprion: Jazz Release of the Decade?

Legit got the ad for the album on this vid

Certainly not each and every take is a deathless masterpiece. But some of these tracks ARE, especially 11383 & 11386, and takes 2 & 3 of IMPRESSIONS - those are top drawer Trane.

More jazz please!!! Also, in my opinion, a love supreme is his best record, it is incredible stuff recorded after a spiritual awakening he had, the album is like listening to God itself, many people cry while listening to it, I would like to know your opinion, classics week maybe?

Can you PLEASE do a Beatles worst to bestt?!

Got an ad for it on this video.

What are some of those current jazz platforms Anthony was talking about? I'd be interested to check them out

FUCKING FINALLY, IVE BEEN DMING YOU FOR THIS SHIT, THANK YOU BASED MELON

"There are a lot of cool things going on in jazz right now" Could you then please review more of it? :(

heaven and earth confirmed 8/10

Please review Kadhja Bonet's Childqueen album please!!! Great Jazzy album!!

god, going through a Coltrane discovery phase was fun. I dug back into those Prestige recordings- AHHH the prestige recordings. I just was picking up whatever had John Coltrane on the label and whatever he did as a collabo including Tadd Dameron and Kenny Burrell. By the way that album with Kenny Burrell is top notch. Jazz is a legacy music now and rock is becoming a legacy music. Rap seems to be too! I think Rap is on its way, it's just a lot further from that end than rock and roll. Being a legacy band or a legacy music is not a bad thing. Most of my favorite bands are legacy bands. I should clarify here that when I say legacy for bands I mean they're inactive and not likely to become active again. You get to comb through their discographies and look at everything they've done in context- what turns they took, evaluate any wrong directions, all that jazz. I got John Coltrane performing A Love Supreme live in Seattle... it was underwhelming. I feel like the machine is not releasing his best at this point.

Please review "Kamaal Williams - The Return" and "Youssef Kamaal - Black Focus" to hear some crazy fusions between Jazz, Breakbeat and more UK influences!

What do you think of lo-fi hiphop and jazzhop? It would be hard to review in a traditional context, but I love the vibes.

Speaking of current jazz groups, will you review The Ezra Collectives debut album from earlier this year?

Does anybody else get these crazy animations when they listen to the album on Spotify on their phone?

His cover of Sound of Music, ''my favorite things'' is hard to beat.

I got a both directions ad...

Agreed!

Will you comment on the new Get the blessing stuff?

Maybe

Anthony, Coltrane wasn't alive in the early 70s....

Wouldnt say his best work, but jazz musicians such as myself are just happy to have more Coltrane !

have u heard Cecile McLorin Salvant's Dreams and Daggers?? that's some nice jazz

Yes

Johnthany Coltrano

As an album it is sort of a compilation, but it's high points are amazing. And if 11831 had come out when it was recorded it easily could have been a Real Book classic standard.

More life is the most important jazz album of the decade.

i like trioscapes

Yazz Ahmed is one of my favourite UK Jazz musicians atm

Review Pink Navel's "Born on the stairs"!

Regardless of whether or not you *like* it as much as other enormous releases by artists like Kamasi Washington, Antonio Hart or Hermeto Pascoal, it's simply impossible to deny that Both Directions At Once will be the most important or close to the most important jazz release of the decade. Although I personally love it, so I am very biased, the fact of the matter is that at least the untitled originals included are fantastic insights in the evolution of the one artist that you can link pretty much every contemporary jazz artist to, and people will see Both Directions At Once as a future reference when trying to build the complete idea of Coltrane's sound; a sound that has marked jazz forever and will continue to mark jazz forever. Is it the best release of the decade in terms of jazz? I don't think so -- it's a fantastic recording, unfortunately lacking in content and organization of it format for reasons that are obvious, but a fantastic recording nonetheless.

the new R+R=NOW album is a must listen to if youre into jazz

Christian Scott and BadBadNotGood have been blowing my mind lately. As a Coltrane fanatic I was really excited to hear this. It's obviously no Love Supreme, but an okay Coltrane album is still extraordinary by most standards

Could you give links to jazz projects on bandcamp that you like?

Nubya García from the London scene is dope.

What happened to your Instagram story melon?

I think almost every "lost recordings" release from a legendary deceased artist, especially one as justifiably deified as Coltrane, is at least briefly hailed as the "most important release of the [time period]" for x or y genre by people who think x or y genre ended over a decade ago anyway. I remember seeing people claiming that fuckin Valleys of Neptune was the most important rock release of the [time period] when that was released just because it was more Hendrix. A few years later, who's mentioning THAT posthumous release in the same breath as an Electric Ladyland or Axis: Bold as Love? Posthumous releases are really cool, but there's a natural hype inflation that comes with the territory. It'll settle.

Love u melhen