Sold Date: February 24, 2024
Start Date: July 18, 2023
Final Price: $75.00 (USD)
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                                                                             JOHN COLTRANE "COLTRANE"
2012 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS "PRESTIGE REISSUE SERIES", 25 OF THE MOST COLLECTIBLE, RAREST, MOST AUDIOPHILE-SOUNDING RUDY VAN GELDER RECORDINGS EVER MADE. ALL MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES BY MASTERING MAESTRO KEVIN GRAY. 180-GRAM LP'S PRESSED AT STATE-OF-THE-ART QUALITY RECORD PRESSINGS AND PLATED BY GARY SALSTROM. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES-THIS IS #66 OF A SOLD-OUT SERIES.
"ANOTHER FINE-SOUNDING PRESTIGE MONO, COLTRANE CRACKLES WITH SPONTANEOUS INTENSITY. AL HEATH'S DRUM TRIPLETS SPARK "BAKAI", AS COLTRANE'S THROATY TENOR INTRODUCES THE REPETITIVE, ARABIC-INFLUENCED THEME. "VIOLETS FOR YOUR FURS" IS SORT OF PRECURSOR TO COLTRANE'S FINE BALLADS ALBUM (1963), WHILE A STRING OF MOSTLY UP-TEMPO TUNES FOLLOW."--WAYNE GARCIA, THE ABSOLUTE SOUND"
"JOHN COLTRANE, IS IN A SENSE, AS IRA GITLER WROTE IN THE LINER NOTES TO COLTRANE'S 1957 SELF-TITLED ALBUM-FEATURING HIS FIRST SESSION AS A BAND LEADER-A NEW STAR, "BUTHE HAS NOT ARRIVED THROUGH HIG-PRESSURE PRESS AGENTRY. HE HAS BEEN BUILDING ON MORE SOLID GROUND. FROM THE TIME OF HIS JOINING THE MILES DAVIS QUINTET IN LATE 1955 THROUGH TO HIS BRILLIANT WORK WITH THELONIOUS MONK AT THE FIVE SPOT CAFE IN THE SUMMER OF 1957, COLTRANE STEADILY INCREASED HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS ON HIS INSTRUMENT AND GAINED NEW ADMIRERS FOR HIS PLAYING AMONG HIS FELLOW MUSICIANS AND THE SERIOUS LISTENING PUBLIC. FOR THE DATE, COLTRANE CHOSE HIS MUSICIANS, HE CONTRIBUTED SEVERAL COMPOSITIONS AND HE ALSO WROTE SOME OF THE ARRANGEMENTS."