3CD: Blue Train, Coltrane Time e The Paris Concert.

Recorded live at The Village Vanguard, New York City on November 2 (#2,3) and November 3 (#1,4,5), 1961.

#1-3 originally issued as 'Live at the Village Vanguard' (Impulse AS-10), #4-5 originally issued on 'Impressions' (Impulse AS-42).

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, May 31, 1957.
Remastered at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2009
"I remember the sessions well, I remember how the musicians wanted to sound, and I remember their reactions to the playbacks. Today, I feel strongly that I am their messenger." - RUDY VAN GELDER

Original recorded May 31 and August 16, 1957, and January 10, 1958, all in New York.

3CD.

Con Archie Shepp.
Recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival, July 2, 1965 at Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island.
Tracks 1, 2 and 6-9 original-LP issue: "New Thing At Newport" Impulse AS-94.
Track 3 original-LP issue: John Coltrane "Feelin' Good" Impulse IZ9345/2.
Track 5 original-LP issue: Archie Shepp "On This Night" Impulse AS-97.
Track 4 previously unreleased.

Reissue mastered at Universal Mastering Studios-East.

Master Number -

Track 2 - 90350
Track 5 - 90355
Track 6 - 90354
Track 7 - 90353
Track 8 - 90351
Track 9 - 90352

'Mastering this music from the original tapes has uncovered new information that calls for a different arrangement of the tracks from what originally appeared on LP. For the first time, the pieces within each set appear here in the order in which they were performed. Some on-stage chatter between tunes has been left intact, though an analog edit has shortened the time between the two Coltrane pieces, and the pauses between Archie Shepp tracks have been contracted to eliminate empty spaces. Random disturbances from heavy wind gusts and aircraft flying over the outdoor bandstand mask parts of Shepp's performance.'

In digipak case.

Photographs © 2000 Chuck Stewart

? 2000 The Verve Music Group © 2000 The Verve Music Group, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Made in the EU.

2CD. Recorded in performance at The Penthouse,
Seattle, Washington, September 30, 1965.

Note. Body And Soul and the incomplete Afro-Blue were previously unissued. All other selections were originally issued on the double album John Coltrane Live In Seattle.
Out Of This World and Evolution were divided into two parts on that album and have been restored to their continuous performances here.

Made in the USA.

4CD. John Coltrane Quintet Featuring Eric Dolphy. Registrazioni, anche inedite, tratte da trasmissioni radio e da collezioni private, assemblate per la prima volta in un quadruplo CD che presenta il tour del 1961, quando Coltrane è venuto a suonare in Europa. Con il sassofonista abbiamo una super band, formata da Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman ed Elvin Jones. Il classico quartetto di Coltrane con in più il fuoco aggiunto di Eric Dolphy.

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on November 23, 1965.
Digitally remastered at MCA Music Media Studios using 20-Bit Super Mapping.

The first two movements are played in continuous performance, as are the last three movements.


© & ? 1996 GRP Records, Inc. & "impulse!" Reg. Trademark.

Recorded in New York City on October 13, 1958.

NOTE: Before being issued as COLTRANE TIME in 1962, this album appeared on United Artists in 1959 as STEREO DRIVE under Cecil Taylor's leadership. It is the original liner notes from that first issue that are included here.