Special offer. Blue World
John Coltrane (saxophone)
Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, November 2019
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The Guardian, Jazz Album of the Month, September 2019
Here Coltrane sounds majestic, posing the question of whether this album (rather than A Love Supreme recorded a few months later) was the apotheosis of his ‘middle period’.
Special offer. Blue World
John Coltrane (saxophone)
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Awards:
-
Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, November 2019
-
The Guardian, Jazz Album of the Month, September 2019
Here Coltrane sounds majestic, posing the question of whether this album (rather than A Love Supreme recorded a few months later) was the apotheosis of his ‘middle period’.
About
In 1964, the National Film Board of Canada asked John Coltrane to record the soundtrack for a French-language film titled “Le chat dans le sac” (“The Cat in the Bag”). Amazingly, no announcement was
made that the iconic Coltrane was adding new performances to this film.
In June of that year, Coltrane’s ‘Classic Quartet’ entered Rudy Van Gelder’s studio and recorded five previously-recorded Coltrane originals. For many years, viewers of the film who recognized the music thought that they were listening to the original recordings, though in fact they were new and had never been heard.
Now, with the release of Blue World, we can hear these newly-discovered recordings for the first time.
Contents and tracklist
SIDE A
Naima (Take 1)
Village Blues (Take 2)
Blue World
Village Blues (Take 1)
SIDE B
Village Blues (Take 3)
Like Sonny
Traneing In
Naima (Take 2)
Awards and reviews
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JazzwiseEditor's ChoiceNovember 2019
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The GuardianJazz Album of the MonthSeptember 2019
November 2019
Here Coltrane sounds majestic, posing the question of whether this album (rather than A Love Supreme recorded a few months later) was the apotheosis of his ‘middle period’.
