Naima
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For other uses, see Naima (disambiguation).
Naima is a ballad composed by John Coltrane in 1959, and named after his then-wife, Juanita Naima Grubb. It first appeared on the album Giant Steps, and is notable for its use of a variety of rich chords over a bass pedal. The song is mainly made up of a slow, restrained melody, though there is also a brief piano solo. One of Coltrane's most famous songs, Naima has since become somewhat of a jazz standard, covered among others by:
- John McLaughlin - on Love Devotion Surrender (with Carlos Santana, 1973), and on After The Rain (1995)
- Maynard Ferguson - Hot (1979)
- the New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble
- Pharoah Sanders - Crescent With Love (1992), etc
- Derek Trucks (on his first album, 1997)
- McCoy Tyner - on Echoes Of A Friend (1972), The Greeting (1978), Things Ain't What They Used To Be (1989), etc.
- David Murray - with Dave Burrell, on Windward Passages (1993)
- Arthur Blythe - (on Blythe Byte, 2001)
