Mr Syms

I must begin this with an admission of ignorance: I don't know who Mr Syms is -- or was, for that matter. Here's what I do know. Listening to John Coltrane play has always been and will always be something on par with a religious experience. Particularly the years that he became so relentlessly tied into the spiritual dimensions of his work. Honestly, in another world I would skip Kol Nidre on Yom Kippur evening, considered by many Jews to be the most holy of times, and instead play Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Because music and only music can reach into those places of the soul with such incisive and powerful impact.
John Coltrane – Mr. Syms is from Coltrane Plays the Blues. Trane recorded this album in 1962, with my man McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums and Steve Davis on bass. It is not one of Trane's huge sheets of sound composition. Instead it's an easy bluesy piece that is addictive. This is the chart  http://tinyurl.com/o2mg5nm
Trane's on soprano here, and it's like an effortless walk or a piece of cake: so tasty. His 2 solos are brief but beautiful. McCoy as always complements his mentor with a longer unrushed solo, mirroring the gentleness of the piece. Listen to it over and over. It's simple and gorgeous.
There will be other Coltrane pieces listed here, but this little blues number is just so satisfying. 
When I play it for some folks they say that they think it sounds like "On a Clear Day" which is a show tune from the play of the same name with lyrics by Allan Lerner and music Burton Lane. If anybody "stole" a melody line it would've been Burt Lane given that Mr Syms was recorded a few years before the play.