condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeve. Insert included. No obi.

The 1961 Vanguard classic on a Japanese ABC Impulse! pressing - and this dense, room-filling music genuinely benefits from Japanese vinyl quality. John Coltrane declaring independence in real time, one chorus after another, with Elvin Jones answering every question the tenor asks and Eric Dolphy's bass clarinet haunting "Spiritual" like a second conscience. If you only know the studio records, this is where the door opens: the working band, the long forms, the risk taken nightly in front of paying customers. Sixty-plus years later it still sounds like the future. Japanese pressing, highly recommended edition of required listening.