Let's start with just that...
I Want to Talk About You...a song written by
Billy Eckstine and
made popular by John Coltrane I'm pretty sure.
The first version on the tune I ever heard was from
Chip White's Harlem Sunset cd. I fell in love with it right away.
 | Harlem Sunset
Chip White
Jazz 1994 AMG Buy | | | 1 | Another Planet | 11:32 | | 2 | Excuse Me Now | 06:32 | | 3 | I Want to Talk About You | 07:21 | | 4 | Club 609 | 04:13 | | 5 | The Wizard | 08:42 | | 6 | Circle Dance | 07:04 | | 7 | We (To Kristen and Me) | 05:18 | | 8 | Harlem Sunset | 02:32 | | |
I have since listened to
John Coltrane's version that I found on the cd called
John Coltrane Plays For Lovers. Of course it is very nice, but in my humble opinion, the Chip White version has more soul to it. I want to feel that same ache, but I just don't.
 | John Coltrane Plays for Lovers [2003]
John Coltrane
Jazz 2003 AMG Buy | | | 1 | I Want to Talk About You | 10:49 | | 2 | Violets for Your Furs | 06:16 | | 3 | Invitation | 10:22 | | 4 | Slow Dance | 05:27 | | 5 | Lush Life | 13:54 | | 6 | Like Someone in Love | 04:54 | | 7 | Stardust | 08:24 | | 8 | While My Lady Sleeps | 04:41 | | 9 | You Leave Me Breathless | 07:21 | | |
Now
BillyEckstine's original version with his orchestra of
I Want To Talk About You is 'Swingin'! Eckstine himself sings this hoppin' tune. His voice is deep and rich (kinda like Johhny Hartman) I like this style...it's just that I heard the Chip White style first and became a romantic one for me with the "slow-dance" type of sound that I like.
 | The Swinging Mr. B
Billy Eckstine
Vocal 1995 AMG Buy | | | 1 | Blowin' the Blues Away | 01:51 | | 2 | I Wanna Talk About You | 02:51 | | 3 | Together | 03:34 | | 4 | Mean to Me | 03:23 | | 5 | Without a Song | 04:04 | | 6 | Mr. Chips | 02:54 | | 7 | Air Mail Special | 03:27 | | 8 | Don't Blame Me | 03:01 | | 9 | If That's the Way You Feel | 03:11 | | 10 | Opus X | 02:29 | | 11 | Love Me or Leave Me | 04:09 | | |
Pianist, John Hicks knows how to get romance out of this song. It doesn't exactly have the "soul" that I mentioned in the Chip White version (the one where I ache), but it gives an uplifting type of soul sound.
 | Friends Old and New
John Hicks
Jazz 1992 AMG Buy | | | 1 | Hicks Tone | 07:52 | | 2 | I Want to Talk About You | 05:56 | | 3 | Bop Scotch | 04:58 | | 4 | True Blue | 06:34 | | 5 | It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 06:43 | | 6 | Nutty | 07:30 | | 7 | Makin' Whoopee | 06:26 | | 8 | Rosetta | 05:08 | | |
I'd like to learn what version of the song you have. Do you like it? Why? Why not? Have you heard the four versions I mentioned here? Do you agree with my thoughts? I'd love to hear from you.
