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For a brief time, I rose each day and played "Spiritual" from Side 4 of this each morning as a kind of meditation. This is a great set of music. It is essential Colyrane I believe. The larger set of all Granz' tapes is good stuff too.
The sound quality could be better, but the performance cannot be beat. These are the songs that defined Coltrane and the Coltrane sound.
However, all of these tracks are also on the excelent "Live Trane: The European Tours" ( a must have) also available on eMusic. That said the mastering on this 2 disk Pablo set is better then on the Japanese import featurings a cleaner sound.
No jazz musician inspires flattering imitators and devoted listeners like saxophonist John Coltrane. One reason is because there's a Coltrane for every taste: the yearning balladeer; the hard bop jackrabbit, scaling intricate improvised lines over the chords to standard tunes; the ambitious conceptualist, constructing ever-more elaborate steeplechases to challenge himself; the exponent of spiritual, roiling high-energy free jazz. Coming up in the 1950s, the tenor saxophonist apprenticed with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, leaders… more »
