![]() It has a subtle but smoldering power, and heard from the perspective of many years later, it sounds like a musical announcement: The arrival of the Classic Coltrane Quartet is imminent. “Equinox” is a minor-key blues with a dramatic Latin-rhythm introduction. The coincidence put me in mind of Coltrane’s “Equinox,” one of my favorite compositions and performances by him. ![]() (If you’re going by Coordinated Universal Time, aka UCT, the vernal equinox is at 3:09 a.m. This year, the saxophonist’s birthday crosses paths with the autumnal equinox. ![]() In the meantime, he was leading his recently formed quartet in performance six nights a week at New York’s Half Note club. It was late autumn, just five days after waxing his tour de force version of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “My Favorite Things.” It was an especially busy week in the studio for Coltrane: The John Coltrane Reference Book lists 29 masters and alternate takes made between October 21 and 26. John Coltrane recorded his composition “Equinox” nearly 50 years ago.
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