John Coltrane - One Down, One Up (Live At The Half Note)   

Label: Impulse!
Catalog Number: B0002380-01
Country: US
Release Date: 2006-Jan-09
Format: Vinyl (LP)

Recorded 1965 at the Half Note, New York City: Sides A & B on March 26; Sides C & D on May 7 These tracks are receiving their first authorized release. 200 Gram In Gatefold

Having recharged his legendary status on 2005's spectacular Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall, a previously unheard "lost" recording from 1957, the late John Coltrane solidifies his refreshed standing with a new generation of jazz fans with this exciting discovery by his own quartet. Recorded in 1965 at New York's Half Note club, One Down, One Up isn't as stunning a find as the Monk album. Its recorded sound, taken from a radio broadcast, is pretty raw and, whereas the Monk album represents a rare meeting of these giants, there are other live albums from the mid-'60s by the Coltrane four. None, however, are as good as this one, which finds the tenor and soprano saxophonist making magnificent mountains out of modal molehills through his relentless surrounding and reshaping of notes, never coming up for air. You don't listen to epic performances like the 28-minute title track, 23-minute rendition of "My Favorite Things" (his bread and butter tune) and 20-minute "Song of

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