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John Coltrane: Spiritual

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Artist: John Coltrane
Title: Spiritual
Released: 1997
Label: Newsound 2000
Time: 57:48
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Jazz
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  1999
Price in €: 3,99
Web address: www.johncoltrane.com

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[1] Blue Train (J.Coltrane) - 9:03
[2] Spiritual (J.Coltrane) - 12:01
[3] Naima (Rodgers/Hammerstein) - 7:08
[4] My Favourite Things (J.Coltrane) - 10:36
[5] Impressions (J.Coltrane) - 7:26
[6] Traneing In (J.Coltrane) - 11:32

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John Coltrane - Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Producer

Eric Dolphy - Bass clarinet
Alice Coltrane - Piano
McCoy Tyner - Piano
Jimmy Garrison - Bass
Reggie Workman - Bass
Rashied Ali - Drums
Roy Haynes - Drums
Elvin Jones - Drums

Bob Thiele - Producer
Richard Seidel - Compilation producer

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Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; The Village Vanguard, New York, New York between November 3, 1961 and March 7, 1967. Includes liner notes by Alice Coltrane. All tracks have ben digitally remastered.



John Coltrane's plaintive tenor saxophone tone and total engagement with his material could make any slow ballad sound like a prayer, so this set of nominally devotional numbers (recorded between 1961 and '67) doesn't shed any new light on his art. But it holds your attention, even if Coltrane's holy numbers tend to be slow or stately as hymns (if sometimes catchier: "Dear Lord" could pass for some unjustly forgotten ballad). The first movement of A Love Supreme was an inevitable choice, for Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison's mantra-like repetitions, and for the saxophonist's speaking-in-tongues falsetto. (Garrison, the only sideman who appears on all tracks, is the CD's secret hero, whether adding punchy beats to the bottom end or flamenco-strumming through an intro.) On Coltrane's albums or gigs, spirituals often functioned as change-ups, a chance to catch one's breath before the next fast or frenetic number. They still sound most striking in relief, but assembled in one place, their power accumulates.

Kevin Whitehead, Amazon.com



Anyone who's ever listened to John Coltrane's most impassioned music can sense that playing jazz was more than just a vocation for him. In his most earnest work, Coltrane sounds as if he's attempting to tap into a force beyond our worldly one. Some of his most passionate recordings in this vein are brought together here, on a collection that acts mainly as an introduction to the great saxophonist's work of the early and mid-Sixties. The selections are well-picked, if a bit arbitrary in that their titles seem to give the most obvious clues to their "spiritual" nature. "Dear Lord," "Song of Praise," "Spiritual," "Wise One," "A Love Supreme" (Part One-Acknowledgement)" are all impressive and heartfelt performances, but the same could be said for many pieces of this same period with more prosaic titles. Nonetheless you can't go wrong with Impulse! Records-era Coltrane:simply put, this is some of the most inspiring jazz ever recorded.

Steve Futterman, Barnes & Noble



In the standard process of reissue/repackage, Impluse! put together an eight-track compilation of John Coltrane numbers together under the Spiritual title and theme. The job must have seemed pretty easy since just about everything he recorded for the label could be considered in the spiritual order. The real problem, therefore, became deciding which pieces to leave off the compilation as opposed to which ones to include. There are certainly some beautiful works here: "Song of Praise" (an odd but delightful choice) and "Dear Lord" typify this compilation -- in fact there's not a dud in the group.

Jack LV Isles, All Music Guide
 

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