John Coltrane – Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy (LP Vinyl)
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The summer of 1961 found Coltrane at a pivotal moment, just months after recording "Africa/Brass" and deep in the exploratory period that would define the decade in jazz. Dolphy's presence pushed that group into genuinely uncharted territory, his bass clarinet and alto sax in conversation with Coltrane's sheets of sound in ways the studio never quite captured. These recordings sat in the New York Public Library for over sixty years, which makes hearing them now feel less like a reissue and more like a time capsule cracking open.
John Coltrane -"Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy" / In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Ninety 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.
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Disc 1
Side B
UPC: 602455514196
Label: Impulse Records
Release Date: 7.14.23
Format: LP Vinyl