"Lost" Coltrane album recorded w/ "A Love Supreme" musicians coming June 29

[Miles Archer]

Missing for more than 50 years, recordings by jazz legend John Coltrane leading the quartet behind his masterpiece “A Love Supreme” are coming out as a posthumous album.

Impulse! Records announced Friday that it will release “Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album,” recorded in 1963 and never heard before publicly, on June 29.

The new album is “like finding a new room in the Great Pyramid,” 87-year-old Sonny Rollins, Coltrane’s friend and the last in his generation of iconic jazz saxophonists, said in a statement.

Coltrane recorded the seven tracks with his classic quartet — Jimmy Garrison on bass, Elvin Jones on drums and McCoy Tyner on piano — at the New Jersey studio of jazz enthusiast Rudy Van Gelder, an initially makeshift space in a living room that became a go-to spot for artists.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/lost-john-coltrane-album-set-release/

[First Speaker]

1. Wow...this is amazing...

...bless Trane. Taken from us far too soon...I often wonder what he might have done had he lived on. The history of jazz would have been very different...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Sweet! 🎷

[eppur_se_muova]

3. So amazing ... a few years ago, I saw mention of a Don Ellis album I didn't have ...

Ellis died in 1978, and all his recordings had been reissued on CD (w/bonus tracks I had never heard before), so how a new album ? And live in India ? I would have thought that would be the high point in any Ellis discography, and here's this CD -- released in 2013 ! Turns out the performances were rescued from old casette recordings by David Crigger, who has since become skilled in digital music technology and studio recording/sound processing. What an unexpected gift, from out of the blue !

My best thoughts to all the fans of Coltrane -- or just jazz, really -- from someone who understands what a thrill such an unexpected resurrection can bring.

[malthaussen]

4. Amazing that there are tapes floating around after 50 years...

... "undiscovered" gems are always fun.

-- Mal

[bif]

5. Way cool!

[Codeine]

6. It is very rare for me to actively look forward

to a particular record release these days, but I’m all over this.

[Paladin]

7. There can never be enough Coltrane. Glad to hear this. (nt)