John Coltrane

The Avant-Garde + 4 Bonus Tracks (EJC 55700)

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1960

The Avant-Garde + 4 Bonus Tracks

John Coltrane

Essential Jazz Classics

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EJC 148553

EJC 55700

JAZZ

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The Avant-Garde + 4 Bonus Tracks

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INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS

John Coltrane formed his first quartet as a leader at New York’s Jazz Gallery in May 1960. He also began playing the soprano saxophone during his tenure at that club. In that exact period he recorded his one and only session with trumpeter Don Cherry, released as The Avant-Garde (Atlantic SD1451). On this album Trane doubles on soprano, but none of the members of his regular quartet (at that time McCoy Tyner, Steve Davis and Pete La Roca) are heard here. Instead, for his date with Cherry, the saxophonist chose a format more closely associated with Cherry’s longtime associate Ornette Coleman, the pianoless quartet. Charlie Haden and Percy Heath –alternating on bass–, and Ed Blackwell –on drums – complete the group.

As a bonus, the original studio versions of the three Ornette Coleman compositions included on this album (featuring Coleman with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden), as well as a rare live reading of “The Blessing” by Coleman’s group.

PERSONNEL:

  • JOHN COLTRANE, tenor & soprano sax
  • DON CHERRY, trumpet
  • CHARLIE HADEN, bass (on 1 & 3)
  • PERCY HEATH, bass (on 2, 4 & 5)
  • ED BLACKWELL, drums

New York, June 28 (tracks 1 & 3) & July 8 (tracks 2, 4 & 5), 1960.

  • [6-9] BONUS TRACKS:
  • (6): Don Cherry (cnt), Ornette Coleman (as), Charlie Haden (b),
  • Billy Higgins (d). Hollywood, May 22, 1959.
  • (7-8): Don Cherry (pocket-tp), Ornette Coleman (as), Walter Norris (p),
  • Don Payne (b), Billy Higgins (d). Los Angeles, February 22, 1958. (9): Don Cherry (tp), Ornette Coleman (as), Paul Bley (p), Charlie Haden (b),
  • Billy Higgins (d). Live at the Hillcrest Club, Los Angeles, October, 1958.
TRACKS:
  • 01 CHERRYCO
  • 02 FOCUS ON SANITY
  • 03 THE BLESSING
  • 04 THE INVISIBLE
  • 05 BEMSHA SWING
  • 06 FOCUS ON SANITY [ORIGINAL ORNETTE COLEMAN VERSION] (*)
  • 07 THE BLESSING [ORIGINAL ORNETTE COLEMAN VERSION] (*)
  • 08 THE INVISIBLE [ORIGINAL ORNETTE COLEMAN VERSION] (*)
  • 09 THE BLESSING [LIVE ORNETTE COLEMAN VERSION] (*)
  • (*) BONUS TRACKS
  • TOTAL TIME: 61:49
  • (*) BONUS TRACKS