Wednesday, 10 June 2015

John Coltrane - Live In Seattle (1966) [2CD Set] {Impulse!}


John Coltrane - Live In Seattle (1966) [2CD Set] {Impulse!}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone


This double CD features John Coltrane at a concert in Sept. 1965 with his expanded sextet (which included pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Elvin Jones, Pharoah Sanders on tenor and Donald Garrett doubling on bass clarinet and bass). Coltrane experts know that 1965 was the year that his music became quite atonal and, with the addition of Sanders, often very violent. This music, therefore, is not for fans of Coltrane's earlier sheets of sound period or for those who prefer jazz as melodic background music.


The program from the original double LP (the nearly free "Cosmos," an intense workout on "Out of This World," a bass feature and the truly wild "Evolution") is augmented by previously unissued versions of "Body and Soul" and a 34-minute "Afro Blue" that is incomplete because the tape ran out. Throughout much of this set Coltrane plays some miraculous solos, Sanders consistently turns on the heat, Garrett makes the passionate ensembles a bit overcrowded, Tyner is barely audible, Garrison drones in the background and Jones struggles to make sense of it all. This is innovative and difficult music that makes today's young lions (not to mention the pop saxophonists) sound very old-fashioned in comparison.

Personnel:
John Coltrane — tenor saxophone/soprano saxophone
Pharoah Sanders — tenor saxophone
McCoy Tyner — piano
Jimmy Garrison — double bass
Donald Garrett — bass clarinet/double bass
Elvin Jones — drums

tracklist:
CD1

01 - Cosmos
02 - Out of this World
03 - Body and Soul
04 - Tapestry in Sound

CD2
01 - Evolution
02 - Afro Blue

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