condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeve. Insert and obi included.

The 1962 ballads session on a Japanese MCA pressing - and honestly, Japanese vinyl suits this music perfectly: dead-silent backgrounds for the most intimate playing John Coltrane ever committed to tape. The classic quartet in miniature mode, McCoy Tyner laying down those cushioned voicings, Elvin Jones proving he could play brushes-quiet and still be Elvin Jones. Eight standards, no epics, total concentration. This album has converted more skeptics and soundtracked more small hours than almost anything else in the discography - there is a reason every generation rediscovers it. Japanese pressing, the audiophile's way in.