Recorded：July 11, 1958
Studio：Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Wilbur Harden – trumpet, flugelhorn
Red Garland – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

Japanese Limited Edition Featuring A LP Style Sleeve Case. 24Bit Digitally Remastered.

Art Direction – Phil Carroll
Bass – Paul Chambers (3)
Drums – Jimmy Cobb
Liner Notes – Ira Gitler
Photography By – Jim Marshall (3)
Piano – Red Garland
Producer [Original Recordings] – Bob Weinstock
Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
Reissue Producer – Ralph Kaffel
Remastered By – David Turner (2)
Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Wilbur Harden

In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library. In addition to some well-known Coltrane material (“Impressions”), there is a breathtaking feature for Dolphy’s bass clarinet on “When Lights Are Low” and the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane’s composition “Africa”, from the Africa/Brass album.

Previously unissued tracks featuring Coltrane's first recordings on alto sax from 1946 plus a concert with Johnny Hodges, recorded in 1954. 15 tracks. RLR. 2006.

Australian pressing. This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of America for a later radio broadcast that were located at the Library of Congress in Washington DC earlier this year. Blue Note. 2005.

John Coltrane ts
Archie Shepp ts
Pharoah Sanders ts
John Tchcai as
Marion Brown as
Freddie Hubbard tp
Dewey Johnson tp
McCoy Tyner p
Jimmy Garrison b
Art Davis b
Elvin Jones dr

Alice Coltrane’s controversial ‘re-imagining’ of her husband’s late works was criticised by both fans and critics, due to the audacity with which she took his original performances and superimposed them over lush orchestral backgrounds and re-dubbed rhythm section parts, as well as recording new solos on piano, organ, harp and timpani.
Tracks 2 & 3 were originally recorded by the 'classic Quartet' (John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) in 1965, while tracks 1 & 4 were recorded by Coltrane's later ensemble (Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Garrison, Rashied Ali, and extra percussionist Ray Appleton). On the 1965 tracks, Alice retains the original rhythm section parts, adding string and tamboura parts only, but on the 1966 tracks, Garrison's bass parts are replaced with new recordings by Charlie Haden, and she herself records new solos.