Afro Blue (McCoy Tyner album)
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"Afro Blue" is a jazz standard composed by Mongo Santamaria, perhaps best known in its arrangement by John Coltrane.
Coltrane's recordings of the piece have several features in common with his versions of My Favourite Things, including a pulsating 3/4 rhythm, and a simple, almost drone-like harmonic structure.
Lyrics were later written by Oscar Brown Jr..
Other cover versions can be found on Derek Trucks Band's Soul Serenade, Gov't Mule's Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends, Lizz Wright's Salt, and Susana Baca's Espiritu Vivo.
Performances
- The first recorded performance of the piece was by the Cal Tjader Sextet, April 20, 1959, at the Sunset Auditorium in Carmel, California, with composer Mongo Santamaría on percussion; this performance was released on the LP Concert By The Sea, Part 1.
- Mongo Santamaría recorded the piece with his own band the following month on his LP Mongo, which was nevertheless released prior to the above recording.
- Abbey Lincoln performed the song on her 1959 album, Abbey Is Blue, with lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr.. (On the original LP sleeve it was credited to Herbie Mann)
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk on Brotherman in the Fatherland
- Derek Trucks Band's Soul Serenade and Roadsongs
- Gov't Mule's Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends
- Lizz Wright's Salt
- John McLaughlin's After The Rain
- Andy Summers' The Last Dance Of Mr. X
- Susana Baca's Espiritu Vivo
- McCoy Tyner albums Song of the New World, McCoy Tyner Plays John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars
- Dee Dee Bridgewater's Red Earth
- David Garfield's Retro Jazz Quintet, AIX Records
- Candida Rose's KabuMerikana: The Sun of Me
See also
- Polyrhythm
- Mongo Santamaría
- Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends
- Oscar Brown
- Live in Japan (John Coltrane album)
- Jazz waltz
- John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
- Live at Birdland
- Dat Dere
- Afro Blue (album)
- List of post-1950 jazz standards
- Brotherman in the Fatherland
- Cross-beat
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