John Coltrane “I Want To Talk About You”
Posted on October 4, 2007
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When I was a girl, my sister and I used to lace up our roller-skates and skate around the living-room. We only did this when our parents weren’t home. My father had a big stereo system and shelves of LP’s. I studied the covers of most of those albums–flipped them over and over in my hands reading titles and liner notes.
My favorite album to play while we roller-skated over the short blue carpet in the living room was “John Coltrane Live at Birdland”. I thought the second track on the album,I Want To Talk About You
Now I keep the CD in my car. When I listen to it, I always end up listening to track 2 three or four times before I listen to the rest of the CD. All of the tracks are outstanding, but that one is still my favorite.
Coltrane squeezes every note he can possible play out of that tune and it all means something. Nothing is wasted. He says everything that needs to be said. There’s nothing left to add. No one else takes a solo on the track. What would be the point?
Though I’ve heard it thousands of times, each time I hear that tune I hear something new. That’s why I love it so much.
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