Comments for Coltrane, John, Newport '63

I am not sure about the catalog number. This may not be correct, sorry!

I marvelous MFT.............. Coltrane shakes the shake. His sound and drive is unbelievable........ It's something that you want to hear over and over and over again and again........... I really enjoy this MFT...... Also, the Impressions is outstanding for its energy and harmonic splitting.....Fortells Coltrane directions in 64 and 65. This impressions is a Long solo by Trane with Roy Haynes on drums........ I love this Impressions.. He never played it this way before and never played it this way again

This is definitely my favourite album. I love him when he's playing live. At those moments when he's improvising he is at his best.

Probably my favorite Coltrane album right here. Some nights I just listen to the cadenza of "I Want to Talk About You" for hours and hours, and then its light out and I have to go to school again. It''s pure expression that you get to listen to, just the man and his horn, and he manages to say more in those four and half minuets (maybe closer to six, I''ve never really clocked it) than I probably will get to say through my horn in my entire life. But I think the essence of the man would dictate to us that it is our destiny, nay, our duty to try to get all those things out, and try to ease the pain somewhere, if nowhere else but our own souls. And for that reason, I keep making music. Because of John Coltrane, I keep making music.

This album is incredibly technical. This shows the beginnings of Trane`s out playing, where he may have gotten many of the ideas for his later avant-garde playing. Definitely one of the best Trane albums that I own, but not the best. Coltrane`s sound is opening up on this recording, and he achieves great ideas and tone. The first three songs were recorded in `63 at Newport, and the fourth at the Village Vanguard in NYC in `61. Great playing.