The Impulse Albums: Volume One (5-CD Box Set)

Specially priced, limited edition 5-CD box set containing five classic, influential John Coltrane albums from his Impulse discography.

Each album newly remastered from the original master tapes.


Includes:

CD 1 - "Africa/Brass" (1961)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-6

01. Africa (Coltrane) 6:28
02. Greensleeves (Traditional) 2:38
03. Blues Minor (Coltrane) 7:22

CD 2 - "Live At The Village Vanguard" (1961)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-10

01. Spiritual (Coltrane) 13:49
02. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein-Romberg) 6:39
03. Chasin' The Trane (Coltrane) 16:11

CD 3 - "Coltrane" (1962)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-21

01. Out of This World (Arlen-Mercer) 14:06
02. Soul Eyes (Waldron) 5:26
03. The Inch Worm (Loesser) 6:19
04. Tunji (Coltrane) 6:33
05. Miles' Mode (Coltrane) 7:31

CD 4 - "Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" (1962)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-30

01. In A Sentimental Mood (Ellington) 4:17
02. Take The Coltrane (Ellington) 4:44
03. Big Nick (Coltrane) 4:30
04. Stevie (Ellington) 4:25
05. My Little Brown Book (Strayhorn) 5:22
06. Angelica (Ellington) 5:58
07. The Feeling Of Jazz (Ellington-Simon-Troup) 5:29

CD 5 - "Ballads" (1962)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-32

01. Say It (Over And Over Again) (Loesser-McHugh) 4:18
02. You Don't Know What Love Is (DePaul-Raye) 5:15
03. Too Young To Go Steady (Adamson-McHugh) 4:23
04. All Or Nothing At All (Altman-Lawrence) 3:39
05. I Wish I Knew (Gordon-Warren) 4:54
06. What's New (Burke-Haggart) 3:47
07. It's Easy To Remember (Hart-Rodgers) 2:49
08. Nancy (With The Laughing Face) (Silvers-Van Heusen) 3:10

Personnel on "Africa/Brass":
Freddie Hubbard, Booker Little (tp), Jim Buffington, Donald Carrado, Bob Northern, Robert Swisshelm, Julius Watkins (frh), Charles Greenlee, Julian Priester (euph), Bill Barber (tuba), John Coltrane (ss, ts), Eric Dolphy (as, b-cl, fl, arr, cond), Pat Patrick (bs), Garvin Bushell (reeds), McCoy Tyner (p, arr), Reggie Workman, Paul Chambers (b), Elvin Jones (d), Cal Massey (arr), Romulus Franceschini (cond).
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on May 23, 1961

Personnel on "Live at the Village Vanguard":
Garvin Bushell (ob), John Coltrane (ss, ts), Eric Dolphy (as, b-cl), McCoy Tyner (p), Ahmed Abdul-Malik (oud), Reggie Workman, Jimmy Garrison (b), Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones (d).
Recorded live at "Village Vanguard", New York City, on November 2, 1961

Personnel on "Coltrane":
John Coltrane (ss, ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (d).
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on April 11 & June 20, 1962

Personnel on "Duke Ellington & John Coltrane":
John Coltrane (ss, ts), Duke Ellington (p), Aaron Bell, Jimmy Garrison (b), Sam Woodyard, Elvin Jones (d).
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on September 26, 1962

Personnel on "Ballads":
John Coltrane (ss, ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (d).
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on November 13, 1962
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Notes:

As part of its Originals series, the Verve Music Group has begun reissuing the Impulse! recordings of John Coltrane in box set form. This first volume focuses on some seminal entries from 1961 and 1962. In chronological order they are Africa/Brass, Live at the Village Vanguard, Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, and Ballads. Keep in mind that these are newly remastered -- yet again (and one suspects they are the Japanese remasters issued here for the first time) -- and present the albums as they originally appeared.

[...] It's a tidy solution, and for those who did not purchase these recordings already, this is a great way to dig into the Coltrane legacy. For others it may be a head scratcher, or a budget buster. Addressing the latter quandary, the argument is simple: sound. These are the best-sounding reissues of these records listeners have ever gotten in the United States.

Thom Jurek -All Music Guide
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