Whatever the motivation, Coltrane and his quartet stood in tuxedos on the stage with their backs to the Mediterranean, a packed audience of European jazz fans, local gentry, and television cameras in front and offered their only live performance of the entire suite. It was not the easy-swinging jazz typical to the festival; by all reports, the energetic performance proved propulsive enough to drive away most of the white-gloved doyennes in the VIP section upfront.

Mit dem Tenorsaxophon gemalte Ikone des Jazz.