John Coltrane Live At Birdland

Arguably John Coltrane's finest all-around album, this recording has brilliant versions of "Afro Blue" and "I Want to Talk About You"; the second half of the latter features Coltrane on unaccompanied tenor tearing into the piece but never losing sight of the fact that it is a beautiful ballad. The remainder of this album ("Alabama," "The Promise," and "Your Lady") is almost at the same high level.

John Coltrane - Coltrane Live At Birdland (1963) {Impulse!-Verve Originals 0602517649002 rel 2008}
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Jazz / Modal Music / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Jazz / Saxophone

Arguably John Coltrane's finest all-around album, this recording has brilliant versions of "Afro Blue" and "I Want to Talk About You"; the second half of the latter features Coltrane on unaccompanied tenor tearing into the piece but never losing sight of the fact that it is a beautiful ballad. The remainder of this album ("Alabama," "The Promise," and "Your Lady") is almost at the same high level.

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.

Presented here are two classic John Coltrane live recordings made at the Birdland jazz club in the early 1960s. While the first three tracks feature the leader with his immortal quartet (featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums), on the last three the great Eric Dolphy is added to that group.

John Coltrane's "Live At The Half Note" on the Laserlight label is an excellent look at what is arguably jazz's greatest quartet - the "Classic Quartet" of Trane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones - in an intimate club setting. It is during performances like these, where Coltrane had the ability to stretch out and play at length, improvising and creating on the spur of the moment, that he further developed his signature, searching style.