John Coltrane

Featuring: Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Eric Dolphy

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeve. Insert included. Insert and obi included.

Anchored by the ferocious live title track from the Vanguard - modal jazz at escape velocity, with Eric Dolphy on hand and the rhythm section in full pursuit. "Impressions" the composition became a standard almost instantly; "Impressions" the performance remains a benchmark for sustained improvisational intensity, chorus after chorus with no repetition and no retreat. The album rounds out with studio material showing the quartet's other faces, but the centerpiece is the thing: John Coltrane at his most driving, modal and relentless. A pillar of the discography in any pressing - here on quiet Japanese MCA vinyl, which handles the density beautifully.