John Coltrane

• 2 × CD Deluxe Edition

• 4/2 stars all music guide

• NEWLY DISCOVERED, PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MUSIC

FROM THE CLASSIC QUARTET

Recorded at New Jersey’s Van Gelder Studios, the 37-minute session was made at the request of Canadian filmmaker Gilles Groulx, who had asked Coltrane to soundtrack his film Le chat dans le sac. (In the end, 10 minutes of the session appeared in the film.) The release was mastered from the original analog tape, according to a Universal press release.

Blue World is the latest in a string of archival Coltrane releases, including last year’s highly successful Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album.

PERSONNEL:

• JOHN COLTRANE, leader, tenor & soprano saxophone
• JIMMY GARISONJ, double bass
• ELVIN JONES, drums
• McCO TYNER, piano

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 24, 1964

TRACKS:

• 01 Naima (Take 1)
• 02 Village Blues (Take 2)
• 03 Blue World
• 04 Village Blues (Take 1)
• 05 Village Blues (Take 3)
• 06 Like Sonny
• 07 Traneing In
• 08 Naima (Take 2)