Personnel:
John Coltrane (ts, ss), Eric Dolphy (cl, as), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (d), Johnny Hartman (vcl)
Reference: 602517564336
Bar code: 0602517564336
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 - "John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman" (1963)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-40
01. They Say It's Wonderful (Berlin) 5:20
02. Dedicated To You (Cahn-Chaplin-Zaret) 5:32
03. My One And Only Love (Mellin-Wood) 4:55
04. Lush Life (Strayhorn) 5:29
05. You Are Too Beautiful (Hart-Rodgers) 5:36
06. Autumn Serenade (DeRose-Gallop) 4:19
CD 2 - "Impressions" (1963)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-42
01. India (Coltrane) 14:09
02. Up 'Gainst The Wall (Coltrane) 3:14
03. Impressions (Coltrane) 15:01
04. After The Rain (Coltrane) 4:09
CD 3 - "Live At Birdland" (1963)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-50
01. Afro-Blue (Santamaria) 10:49
02. I Want To Talk About You (Eckstine) 8:10
03. The Promise (Coltrane) 8:07
04. Alabama (Coltrane) 5:08
05. Your Lady (Coltrane) 6:37
CD 4 - "Crescent" (1964)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-66
01. Crescent (Coltrane) 8:44
02. Wise One (Coltrane) 9:03
03. Bessie's Blues (Coltrane) 3:35
04. Lonnie's Lament (Coltrane) 11:47
05. The Drum Thing (Coltrane) 7:23
CD 5 - "A Love Supreme" (1964)
Originally issued as Impulse AS-77
01. Part 1: Acknowledgement (Coltrane) 7:42
02. Part 2: Resolution (Coltrane) 7:19
03. Part 3: Pursuance (Coltrane) 10:42
04. Part 4: Psalm (Coltrane) 7:02
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Personnel on "Coltrane & Hartman":
John Coltrane (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (d), Johnny Hartman (vcl).
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on March 7, 1963
Personnel on "Impressions":
John Coltrane (ts), Eric Dolphy (b-cl on #1), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Reggie Workman (b only on #1), Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes (d).
Track #1 recorded live at the "Village Vanguard" on November 3, 1961
Tracks #2-4 recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on September 18, 1962 & April 29, 1963
Personnel on "Live At Birdland":
John Coltrane (ss, ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (d).
Tracks #1-3 recorded live at "Birdland", New York City, on October 8, 1963
Tracks #4-5 recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on November 18, 1963
Personnel on "Crescent":
John Coltrane (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (d).
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on April 27, 1964
Personnel on "A Love Supreme":
John Coltrane (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (d).
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on December 9, 1964
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Notes:
This second volume in Universal/Impulse's reissuing of the albums of John Coltrane contains some choice titles. For those who love the early Impulse Trane, there is certainly something here for you in the John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman collection of ballads. There's also the excellent quartet era with Live at Birdland, Crescent, and the seminal A Love Supreme, the record that changed everything ever after for him.
In addition, there is the 1963 album Impressions, a compilation of sorts. There is a long quartet selection called "Up 'Gainst the Wall" (1962), a beautiful but brief "After the Rain" with drummer Roy Haynes sitting in for Elvin Jones from 1963, the title cut, and opening number "India," recorded with Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet and Reggie Workman as an additional bassist. A classic but seldom discussed collection.
The sound is terrific and the price is certainly right for this box if you don't have these titles.
Thom Jurek -All Music Guide
