Unlike so many of his recorded live performances where you are left in awe of the music but wishing that you could have heard it with the clarity in which it was performed, here the Village Vanguard venue (as with Bill Evans' and Sonny Rollins' fine recorded performances there) really does seem to have delivered the best of both worlds – the sound quality of a recording studio (with fine audio quality, enhanced by 20-bit remapping in 1997) and the rapport and communication between the performers and a small but intent audience. John Coltrane's fast developing musical imagination is given the most conducive conditions in which to shine. The result is four and half hours of groundbreaking improvised jazz of the highest importance. It was good fortune that the group was booked to play five nights at New York's Village Vanguard and even greater good fortune that Bob Thiele (John Coltrane's new producer at Impulse!) had the foresight to arrange for the sessions to be recorded by Rudy Van Gelder. Back in November 1961 and at the height of his musical imagination, he was touring with an experimental band that included the Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone and bass clarinet) in addition to the great quartet line-up (John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones). It is now over 50 years since John Coltrane's death. John Coltrane (soprano & tenor saxophones)Įric Dolphy (alto saxophone, bass clarinet)ĭISC 1: India, Chasin' The Trane, Impressions, Spiritual, Miles' Mode, NaimaĭISC 2: Brasilia, Chasin' Another Trane, India, Spiritual, Softly As In A Morning SunriseĭISC 3: Chasin' The Trane, Greensleeves, Impressions, Spiritual, Naima, ImpressionsĭISC 4: India, Greensleeves, Miles' Mode, India, Spiritual
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