Naima
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"Naima" (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) is a jazz ballad composed by John Coltrane in 1959 that he named after his then-wife, Juanita Naima Grubbs. Coltrane first recorded it for his 1959 album Giant Steps, and it became one of his first well-known works.
History
Coltrane recorded "Naima" many times. It appears on The Complete Copenhagen Concert (1961), Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (1966), Afro Blue Impressions (1977), The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (1997), and Blue World (2019). "Naima" has since become a jazz standard.
Structure
According to Coltrane, "The tune is built ... on suspended chords over an ETemplate:Music pedal tone on the outside. On the inside – the channel – the chords are suspended over a BTemplate:Music pedal tone."[1] The composition, on that recording, is a slow, restrained melody, with a brief piano solo by Wynton Kelly.
Chord changes
Chord changes for "Naima":[2]
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Scale associations:[3]
‖: ETemplate:Music Mixolydian | ETemplate:Music Dorian | FTemplate:Music Mel. Minor, E Mel. Minor | ATemplate:Music Lydian :‖ ‖ BTemplate:Music Phrygian | BTemplate:Music Dim. Scale (H-W) | BTemplate:Music Phrygian | BTemplate:Music Dim. Scale | ‖ BTemplate:Music Alt. (B Mel. Minor) | BTemplate:Music Phrygian | BTemplate:Music Mixolydian | E Lydian ‖ ‖ ETemplate:Music Mixolydian | ETemplate:Music Dorian | FTemplate:Music Mel. Minor, E Mel. Minor | ATemplate:Music Lydian ‖
Cultural references
- "Naima" is featured in a scene in the 2013 Polish movie Ida, in which the title character is intrigued by the jazz and its player.[4][5]
- Kamau Brathwaite's poem "Naima for John Coltrane" was included in the Poems on the Underground project.[6]
References
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