Jazz / Modal Music; Hard Bop; Avant-Garde Jazz
Recorded: 1946-1967
John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor)
Dizzy Gillespie
Joel Dorn - Producer
Johnny Hodges
Miles Davis Quintet
Red Garland Trio
Thelonious Monk
This deluxe two-CD set is a major disappointment. It contains a few revelations (a brief 1946 recording of "Hot House" featuring a 20-year-old Coltrane, an aircheck with Dizzy Gillespie and a rare side by Gay Crosse's Good Humor Six in 1952) but mostly repackages familiar material and includes nothing from Coltrane's very important years with Impulse. Why weren't all four of the 1946 sides included and why are only the first 90 seconds heard from Coltrane's final performance before it fades out? The accompanying booklet is quite attractive but this set (which will greatly frustrate completists) only gives an incomplete picture of the great saxophonist.
---Scott Yanow, AMG |
