Coltrane (1961) (CD 1- 4) Complete Village Vanguard Recordings



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Bio:
John Coltrane , 1926-67, American jazz musician, b. Hamlet, N.C. He began playing tenor saxophone as an adolescent. Coltrane worked with numerous big bands before emerging in the mid-1950s as a major stylist while playing as a sideman with Miles Davis .

Originally influenced by Lester Young , Coltrane displayed in his playing a dazzling technical brilliance combined with ardent emotion and eventually a kind of mysticism. His style, which was at once sonorous and spare, was influenced by the rhythms and tonal structure of African and Asian music.

Coltrane made a number of influential recordings, among them the modal-jazz classics My Favorite Things (1961) and A Love Supreme (1964), and the later exemplars of free jazz, Ascension and Interstellar Space, his final album.

From the late 1950s until his death he was considered the outstanding tenor and soprano saxophonist of the jazz avant-garde, and his music continues to be a strong source of inspiration to jazz and pop musicians.

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Review:
When John Coltrane brought an extended version of his newly-built quartet into New York's Village Vanguard for a week's stay in November of 1961, he and his soon-to-be-longtime producer Bob Thiele already knew that they were about to record Trane's first live dates as a bandleader.

After his heavy, big-band Impulse! debut AFRICA BRASS!, Trane's music was streaming further and further into uncharted musical spaces, and recording him was about to become Thiele's raison d'etre.

Hence we have nearly four hours of this incomparable music that features, among many other wonders, the controlled swingin' fury of Elvin Jones, the rhythm-defying astral flights of Eric Dolphy's alto sax and bass clarinet, and, of course, crystallization of the leader's other-worldly sonic masterplan.

The final statement in acoustic jazz that was John Coltrane's Impulse! Career begins here at the Vanguard. Yes, much of this music has been released piece-meal through the years. But taking in this entire recording (in single or multiple sittings) is an experience onto itself. It is a watershed that well deserves the praise it gets.

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Info:
Live Recording

Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.

Discs: 4
Release Date: Sep 23, 1997
Studio/Live: Live
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder

Personnel:
John Coltrane (soprano & tenor saxophones);
Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, bass clarinet);
Garvin Bushell (oboe, contrabassoon);
Ahmed Abdul-Malik (oud);
McCoy Tyner (piano);
Reggie Workman, Jimmy Garrison (bass);
Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes (drums).

Producer: Bob Thiele.

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Recorded live at The Village Vanguard, New York, New York on November 1, 2, 3 & 5, 1961. Includes liner notes by David A. Wild.

Digitally remastered using 20-bit Super Mapping by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios).

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Coltrane (1961) (CD 1)
Complete Village Vanguard Recordings



01-India (A)
02-Chasin' the Trane (A)
03-Impressions (A)
04-Spiritual (A)
05-Miles' Mode (A)
06-Naima (A)

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Coltrane (1961) (CD 2)
Complete Village Vanguard Recordings



01-Brasilia (A)
02-Chasin' Another Trane ( B )
03-India ( B )
04-Spiritual ( B )
05-Softly as in a Morning Sunrise ( B )

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Coltrane (1961) (CD 3)
Complete Village Vanguard Recordings



01-Chasin' the Trane ( B )
02-Greensleeves ( B )
03-Impressions ( B )
04-Spiritual (C )
05-Naima ( C )
06-Impressions ( C )

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Coltrane (1961) (CD 4)
Complete Village Vanguard Recordings



01-India ( C )
02-Greensleeves ( C )
03-Miles' Mode ( C )
04-India (D)
05-Spiritual (D)

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