John Coltrane - Live at Temple University 1966-official release!

[mikeweil]

Same here.

[erwbol]

Yasuhiro Fujioka posts some pictures of Mitten Hall, Temple University on his blog.

[etherbored]

anyone seen this....? set for a 9/24 release.

Offering: Live At Temple University documents a legendary concert by John Coltrane at Temple University in his hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1966, six weeks after his fortieth birthday and nine months before his untimely death.

Offering, available on September 23, 2014 in a deluxe format 2-CD digi-pak, incorporates a look that is contiguous with the graphic identity of Impulse! Records, Coltrane s exclusive label from 1961 until the end of his life. This is the first officially sanctioned release of an undiscovered, complete Coltrane performance since 2005. It captures Coltrane in exemplary form, navigating the language he had developed during the last phase of his musical path with passion and pellucid logic.

Operating at equivalent levels of invention and energy are three members of his working quintet of one year's standing his wife, Alice Coltrane, on piano; Pharoah Sanders on reeds and flute; and Rashied Ali on drums.

Offering is emblematic of the efflorescent energies and radical ideas that Coltrane himself had much to do with bringing forth during the seven years after 1960, when he left the employ of Miles Davis to pursue his vision as a leader. There are versions of Coltrane's 1960 hits Naima and My Favorite Things, a transformational reworking of the 1964 ballad Crescent, a spirit-raising rendering of Leo, which he had recorded on several previous occasions during 1966, and the hymnal Offering, which he would record on a February 15, 1967 studio session that Impulse! would release during the 90s as Spiritual Offering.

On Offering, Resonance Records achieves the highest possible audio quality, using direct transfers of original master reels from a location recording by Temple s WRTI-FM, remastered at 96kHz/24 bit, that were tracked down by Coltrane scholar Yasuhiro Fujioka.

The immense life-force that animates the proceedings on this November 1966 evening in Philadelphia belies the declining state of Coltrane s health. It is still difficult to grasp and to accept that he was firmly in the grip of the liver cancer that would still his voice on July 17, 1967. As co-producer Ashley Kahn states in his liner notes, Coltrane was pointing the way forward for generations of players to come, pushing the music to exhilarating, spiritual heights that caught most by surprise. In 1966, that wasn't what jazz performances were about,not yet.

Recorded November 11, 1966
Mitten Hall, Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Featured Artists:
John Coltrane soprano & tenor saxophones, flute & vocals
Pharoah Sanders tenor saxophone & piccolo
Alice Coltrane piano
Sonny Johnson bass
Rashied Ali drums

Additional musicians include:
Steve Knoblauch, Arnold Joyner alto saxophone
Umar Ali, Algie DeWitt, Robert Kenyatta percussion

Resonance Records, which is a 501 ©(3) non-profit foundation, will contribute a portion from every sale to the John Coltrane House, an organization devoted to the preservation of Coltrane s former home in Dix Hills, New York.

[jazzbo]

Looking forward to it D!

Former discussion thread:

[etherbored]

i suck. mods; please delete this...

[David Ayers]

We've all done it...

[JSngry]

No, you don't suck, and yes, we've all done it.

But also yes, a moderator can, will, and has merged the threads.

[etherbored]

thanks for merging the two threads. i should have known news of this wouldn't have slipped by anyone here, but i'm surprised at the lead time its been given. at any rate, i myself and finicky about my later period coltrane (only within the last couple years have i finally been able to really access it), but the cavalcade of percussionists has me intrigued.

[colinmce]

Kind of wish they didn't drop this so early myself. Now I'm dying to hear it.

[clifford_thornton]

Hope that they've correctly spelled Omar Ali's name on the packaging...

[peterintoronto]

Why wait until September 23rd?

Just ordered here: http://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/65086/john-coltrane/offering-live-at-temple-university

Also decided to finally grab the Complete Sun Ship sessions.

[romualdo]

Hope that they've correctly spelled Omar Ali's name on the packaging...

Umar Ali !!

I've had my copy for over a week now (ex Jazz Messengers) - SQ is much better (official tapes) than the incomplete spanish version (taken from the radio broadcast)

[clifford_thornton]

Hope that they've correctly spelled Omar Ali's name on the packaging...

Umar Ali !!

I've had my copy for over a week now (ex Jazz Messengers) - SQ is much better (official tapes) than the incomplete spanish version (taken from the radio broadcast)

If it's Rashied and Muhammad's brother, it's Omar.

[erwbol]

Why wait until September 23rd?

Just ordered here: http://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/65086/john-coltrane/offering-live-at-temple-university

Also decided to finally grab the Complete Sun Ship sessions.

Thank you.

I just ordered and added the Sam Rivers Reunion 2CD to qualify for free EU shipping.

[romualdo]

Hope that they've correctly spelled Omar Ali's name on the packaging...

Umar Ali !!

I've had my copy for over a week now (ex Jazz Messengers) - SQ is much better (official tapes) than the incomplete spanish version (taken from the radio broadcast)

If it's Rashied and Muhammad's brother, it's Omar.

Unfortunately the booklet has the misspelling (multiple times) i.e. Umar

[erwbol]

For what it's worth this is my impression of the CD.

High resolution transfer from original master tapes by Kevin Reeves.

Sound restoration and mastering by Fran Gala & George Klabin.

The sound is centered around the saxophone. An echo from the concert hall is audible on the saxophone, especially for Coltrane. Drums, percussion and piano receded but audible, bass very low in mix. Drums, piano and even bass become clearly audible for solos. No distortion like Olatunji.

Coltrane plays magnificently. Essential late Coltrane.

[CraigP]

That mix doesn't sound very appetizing. I hate it when I can't hear the bass on a recording (when it has one).

[danasgoodstuff]

I'm pretty used to Jimmy Garrison being buried under Elvin's magnificent burrage - wish I could hear him better, but that's not gonna stop me from getting this.

[erwbol]

By the way, the bassist for this gig is Sonny Johnson. His solo spot is the introduction to My Favourite Things.

Edited July 31, 2014 by erwbol

[clifford_thornton]

I suppose this is Johnson's only appearance on record? He was the brother of trumpeter Dewey Johnson (sadly long departed from the scene and assumed deceased).

[king ubu]

By the way, the bassist for this gig is Sonny Johnson. His solo spot is the introduction to My Favourite Things.

I suppose this is Johnson's only appearance on record? He was the brother of trumpeter Dewey Johnson (sadly long departed from the scene and assumed deceased).

What now 'bout this? CD booklet does not list Garrison, but the Wild entry does. Who's playing?

And where are the photos from that are in the booklet? One shows two bassists, the other might just be croppred too much (by the photographer, not the layout person, I think) to not show the other bass player, seems to be taken at the same venue. Are those from the actual concert? No info to be found in the booklet about this. Seems like there are some quality control issues at Resonance/Impulse/Vivendi/wherever.

But then, what's most important: first spin last night - and WHOAH! Very, very good stuff! GREAT release, for sure! :tup

(I couldn't tell if there's one or two bassists ... was listening late night at rather low volume, will have to listen again very soon though, maybe on headphones.)

[erwbol]

By the way, the bassist for this gig is Sonny Johnson. His solo spot is the introduction to My Favourite Things.

I suppose this is Johnson's only appearance on record? He was the brother of trumpeter Dewey Johnson (sadly long departed from the scene and assumed deceased).

What now 'bout this? CD booklet does not list Garrison, but the Wild entry does. Who's playing?

And where are the photos from that are in the booklet? One shows two bassists, the other might just be croppred too much (by the photographer, not the layout person, I think) to not show the other bass player, seems to be taken at the same venue. Are those from the actual concert? No info to be found in the booklet about this. Seems like there are some quality control issues at Resonance/Impulse/Vivendi/wherever.

But then, what's most important: first spin last night - and WHOAH! Very, very good stuff! GREAT release, for sure! :tup

Going by the minutes long bass solo intro to My Favorite Things, this does not sound like Garrison to me.

[king ubu]

I thought the same last night, indeed!

But what with Wild's entry?

Guess if Garrison would have been there, the solo spot would have been his - or it would have turned into a bass duet?

[David Ayers]

Was in a store recently but didn't see this.

On the subject of bassists, is there a photo of Steve Davis when he played with Trane? Noticed last night there isn't one in the Atlantic box set booklet.

[medjuck]

I'm pretty used to Jimmy Garrison being buried under Elvin's magnificent burrage - wish I could hear him better, but that's not gonna stop me from getting this.

I saw the quartet live once and was sitting on Elvin's side of the stage to boot. Couldn't hear Jimmy at all. (It was a club and I was sitting to the left of the band stand looking across it.)