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John Coltrane Quartet - On Green Dolphin Street
Why? Because it’s time we got our act together, that’s why.
Wynton Kelly? He’s so good that I have a Japanese bootleg of his that only features characters on the side of the disc cover. You think I know how to spell “Kelly” with a brush and a stroke? Yeah, you guessed “no,” and you guessed correctly.
Listen to the first 30 seconds of his intro, and try to keep your pores from doing funny things.
A standard, because it deserves to be. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone do a poor version of this, and I’ve heard a bad R+B singer work a shyte cover of this song while at an actual club called “Green Dolphin Street” while under 21 and hoping they wouldn’t kick me out for drinking an Absolut and grapefruit.
(A “vodka Greyhound,” FCK.)
St. Patrick’s weekend, 2000. TvN on the headphones. Told that girl with the eyebrow ring that I was in a dance troupe from Cleveland, and she believed it. She bloody believed it.
Columbia. Where tenor saxophones fear to tread.
Tags: Warm. Wynton Kelly. Jimmy Cobb. Jimmy Cobb, and Jimmy Cobb. Wynton Kelly.
Yours,
Mercury’s Mustache
