JOHN COLTRANE "LUSH LIFE" AP, LE, NE (#66), SO, 180G, RVG, NEW/SEALED
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JOHN COLTRANE "LUSH LIFE"
2014 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS 'THE PRESTIGE SERIES', LIMITED EDITION, NUMBERED EDITION (#66), SOLD OUT EDITION, 180 G VIRGIN VINYL, MASTERED BY KEVIN GRAY AT COHEARENT AUDIO, USING THE ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES, PLATED BY GARY SALSTROM, PRESSED AT QUALITY RECORD PRESSINGS, SALINA, KS., DELUXE HIGH GLOSS COVER.
"HERE IS ONE OF THE JAZZ GIANTS OF ALL TIME, RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF GREATNESS. BETWEEN THE SPRING OF 1957 AND THE WINTER OF 1958, DURING WHICH TIME LUSH LIFE WAS RECORDED, JOHN COLTRANE WAS DEVELOPING HIS MUSIC IN GIANT STEPS. LUSH LIFE ASSEMBLED FROM THREE SESSIONS AT RUDY VAN GELDER STUDIO, INCLUDES HIS FIRST RECORDING AS A LEADER AND ONE OF HIS FIRST EXTENDED READINGS OF A BALLAD LIKE LUSH LIFE. COLTRANE WAS JUST COMING OFF A SIX MONTH 1957 STINT WITH THELONIOUS MONK, THAT HAD MUCH TO DO WITH SHARPENING COLTRANE'S HARMONIC CONCEPTION AND TORRENTIAL ATTACK."
"LUSH LIFE CONTAINS COLTRANE'S FIRST RECORDINGS AS A SOLE LEADER, HIS INITIAL DATE FRONTING A PIANOLESS TRIO, AND ONE OF HIS FIRST EXTENDED READINGS OF A BALLAD, BILLY STRAYHORN'S RESPLENDENT TITLE TRACK. WE ALSO HEAR HIM AT THE HELM OF A QUARTET AND QUINTET, FEATURING RED GARLAND, WITH TRUMPETER DONALD BYRD ADDED TO LUSH LIFE. COLTRANE AND JAZZ WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME!!
JOHN COLTRANE-TENOR SAX, EARL MAY-BASS, ARTHUR TAYLOR-DRUMS, DONALD BYRD-TRUMPET, RED GARLAND-PIANO, PAUL CHAMBERS-BASS, LOUIS HAYES-DRUMS & AL HEATH-DRUMS.
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