John Coltrane
Creation (LP)
LabelBlue Parrot RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX
1965 live material on the Blue Parrot label - late-period John Coltrane in club performance, captured just as the music was expanding past all previously known limits. 1965 is the pivot year of the whole story: the classic quartet still intact but straining gloriously at its seams, the pieces getting longer, the intensity climbing toward the final transformation. Unofficial in origin, essential in content - the vault-release era has confirmed again and again that the live 1965 tapes contain some of the most extraordinary playing of Coltrane's life. For the serious Trane archaeologist, records like this are not curiosities but load-bearing documents. Handle accordingly.
Release notes
Recording dates, according to back cover: Side A: Recorded in San Francisco, February 23, 1964. Side B: Recorded in New York City, April 2, 1965. Correct recording dates, according to Jazz Discography Project: Side A: Recorded at a television broadcast, "Jazz Casual TV Show", KQED TV Studio, San Francisco, CA, December 7, 1963. Side B: Recorded at "Half Note", New York City April 2, 1965. The title of track B, ”Creation”, is not Coltrane’s. It is an Untitled Original. (See Jazz Discography…
| A1 | Alabama | 6:10 | |
| A2 | Impressions | 14:10 | |
| B | Creation | 23:05 |
- Jimmy Garrison
- Bass
- Elvin Jones
- Drums
- McCoy Tyner
- Piano
- John Coltrane
- Tenor Saxophone
