John Coltrane Infinity Impulse ABC Records AS-9225 DJ Vinyl Promo NM VG+ Jazz

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John Coltrane – Infinity

Label: Impulse! / ABC Records  – AS-9225 DJ

Vinyl,  LP, Album, Gatefold, Promo

US, 1972

Vinyl – NM – Glossy shine. No visible wear under glare of light. Clean labels.

Sleeve – VG+ - The outer sleeve is clean, no writing, no stains, no split edges, no ringwear. Light surface, edge and corner wear due to age, use storage and handling.

Original ABC Records inner paper sleeve present and included.

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Track Listing

All compositions by John Coltrane

1.  1. "Peace on Earth"  – 8:33
2.  2. "Living Space"  – 10:28
3.  3. "Joy"  – 7:54
4.  4. "Leo"  – 9:52

Overdubs recorded at  The Village Recorder,  Los Angeles, California, in 1972.

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Musicians

Original performances by

• John Coltrane  – soprano & tenor sax, bass clarinet, bells, percussion (4)
• Pharoah Sanders  – tenor sax, flute, piccolo, tambourine, percussion (4)
• Alice Coltrane  – piano (1, 4), organ (1,4)
• Rashied Ali  –  drums (1, 4)
• Ray Appleton  – percussion (1, 4)
• McCoy Tyner  – piano (2, 3)
• Jimmy Garrison  –  bass (2, 3)
• Elvin Jones  – drums (2, 3)

Overdubbed with arrangements featuring

• Alice Coltrane  – piano (1, 4), harp (1, 2, 3), organ (1, 4), vibraphone (1, 3), tamboura (2), timpani (4)
• Charlie Haden  – bass (1, 3, 4)
• Joan Chapman – tamboura (2)
• Oran Coltrane – bells (2)

String orchestra

• James Getzoff, Gerald Vinci, Gordon Marron,  Michael White  – violin
• Rollice Dale, Myra Kestenbaum –  viola
• Jesse Ehrlich, Edgar Lustgarten – cello
• Murray Adler – concertmaster

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John William Coltrane  (September 23, 1926  – July 17, 1967) was an American  jazz  saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the  history of jazz  and 20th-century music. Born and raised in  North Carolina, Coltrane moved to  Philadelphia  after graduating from high school, where he studied music. Working in the  bebop  and  hard bop  idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of  modes  and was one of the players at the forefront of  free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter  Miles Davis  and pianist  Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension, as exemplified on his most acclaimed album  A Love Supreme  (1965) and others. Decades after his death, Coltrane remains influential, and he has received numerous posthumous awards, including a  special Pulitzer Prize, and was  canonized  by the  African Orthodox Church. His second wife was pianist and harpist  Alice Coltrane. The couple had three children: John Jr. (1964–1982), a bassist;  Ravi  (born 1965), a saxophonist; and Oran (born 1967), a saxophonist, guitarist, drummer and singer.

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Infinity  is an album credited to  John Coltrane, released on  Impulse! Records  in 1972. It features overdubs with strings of Coltrane's pieces recorded in 1965 and 1966, at the hands of  Alice Coltrane. Her controversial "re-imagining" of her husband's late works was criticised by both fans and critics, as she took his original performances and superimposed them over lush orchestral backgrounds and re-dubbed rhythm section parts, as well as recording new solos on piano, organ, harp and timpani. Tracks 2 and 3 were originally recorded by the "classic quartet" (John Coltrane,  McCoy Tyner,  Jimmy Garrison,  Elvin Jones) in 1965, while tracks 1 and 4 were recorded by Coltrane's later ensemble (Pharoah Sanders,  Alice Coltrane, Garrison,  Rashied Ali, and extra percussionist  Ray Appleton). On the 1965 tracks, Alice retained the original rhythm section parts, adding string and tamboura parts only, but on the 1966 tracks, Garrison's bass parts were replaced with new recordings by  Charlie Haden, and she herself recorded new solos. Regarding the criticism she received concerning the overdubs and alterations, Alice Coltrane reflected: "Some people didn't like the addition of strings... They said, 'We know that the original recording didn’t have any strings, so why didn't you leave it as it was?' I replied, 'Were you there? Did you hear [John's] commentary and what he had to say?'... We had a conversation about every detail; [John] was showing me how the piece could include other sounds, blends, tonalities and resonances such as strings. He talked about cosmic sounds, higher dimensions, astral levels and other worlds, and realms of music and sound that I could feel."