Description: JOHN COLTRANE Spiritual hails from 2001 and is a SEALED CD (crack on case and drill hole in UPC). 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. Welcome 5:25A Love Supreme: Part 1 – Acknowledgement 7:49Dear Lord 5:36Song of Praise 9:51Wise One 9:03Tunji 6:34Ogunde 3:39 Spiritual 13:32
Price: 6.99 USD
Location: Yorba Linda, California
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Type: Album
Language: English
Features: Sealed
Format: CD
Release Year: 2001
Genre: Jazz, Avantgarde, Downtown
Run Time: 61 min.
Style: Avantgarde/Downtown
Artist: John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Roy Haynes, Rashied Ali, Reggie Workman, Eric Dolphy, Alice Coltrane, Elvin Jones
Record Label: Impulse!
Release Title: Spiritual [Impulse]
