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STEREO PRESSING Issued in a gate-fold jacket. See Notes .... We almost graded this VG because VISUALLY, it borders somewhere between a VERY ENTHUSIASTIC VG and VG+ with just a wee too much INAUDIBLE turntable wear to warrant an out and out VG+ BUT AFTER LISTENING how CLEAN it plays we gave it a VG+.
Plays quiet and clean for most of this VAN GELDER recording with a very occasion snap, crackle, or pop. If you're looking for perfection move on, but if you don't mind a slightly LIVED IN "Player" this one's for you. The STEREO mix on this GEM is simply breathtaking. The snappy drums sound especially lifelike as if the drummer were in the room. Great separation as well. This one is SOLID GOLD. No reserve ...

Illumination! Review

by Scott Yanow

Until it was reissued in 1998, this was one of the more elusive Impulse sets of the 1960s. Recorded in 1963 and co-led by John Coltrane's drummer and bassist (Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison), the music is most significant for introducing Sonny Simmons (alto and English horn) and Prince Lasha (flute and clarinet), who are joined in the sextet by underrated baritonist Charles Davis and Trane's pianist McCoy Tyner. Each of the musicians except Jones contributed an original (there are two by Davis); the music ranges from advanced hard bop to freer sounds that still swing. While Garrison's contributions are conventional (this was his only opportunity to lead or co-lead a date), Jones is quite powerful. However, it is the playing of both Simmons, who tears it apart on English horn during "Nuttin' Out Jones," and Lasha (when is he going to be rediscovered and recorded again?) that make this early "New Thing" date of greatest interest.

Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet Featuring McCoy Tyner – Illumination!

• Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
• Record Company – ABC-Paramount Records, Inc.
• Lacquer Cut At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
• Mastered At – Longwear Plating
• Designed At – Viceroy (2)
• Published By – Bird's Eye Music Pub. Co.
• Published By – Aisha Music (2)
• Published By – Contemporary Music (2)
• Published By – Pamco Music

• Alto Saxophone, English Horn – Sonny Simmons
• Baritone Saxophone – Charles Davis (2)
• Bass – Jimmy Garrison
• Clarinet, Flute – Prince Lasha
• Design [Album] – Robert Flynn (2)
• Design [Liner] – Joe Lebow
• Drums – Elvin Jones
• Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
• Photography By [Cover & Liner Photos] – Bob Ghiraldini
• Piano – McCoy Tyner
• Producer – Bob Thiele

• Rights Society (A1, A2, B1 to B3): BMI
• Matrix / Runout (A-side, etched): AS-49·A LW
• Matrix / Runout (B-side, etched): AS-49·B LW
• Matrix / Runout (Both sides, stamped): VAN GELDER STEREO