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At its core is the brooding central movement from Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, but the poignant lyricism and incandescent colours Miles and Gil invest the other pieces, including a rare... — Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the WorldMore…

In a sense this is Shorter’s essay on groove, but his angularity never makes it likely that the whole album would attain that ineffable level, or that he’d even want that. — Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the WorldMore…

Within jazz itself, the album ensured that the music could no longer be considered a social or cultural also-ran, the spiritual and humanistic concerns that made up its inspiration demanding... — Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the WorldMore…

This has to be pick of-the-month for historical interest alone, but for those of us who admire the passion and abandonment of late-period Coltrane this is a gift. Hardly a comfortable ‘listen’,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Still an unruly, flawed, controversial, and deeply divisive album 40 years after its initial release, Ascension set the pace and the tone of the avant-garde music debate right through the back... — Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the WorldMore…

There have been some fascinating, and absorbing, discoveries of previously unissued Coltrane material culled from a variety of sources, but this one takes the biscuit. — Jazzwise, August 2023More…