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| 3.8 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | May 9th 23 |
Two Vanguard tunes and two studio takes, and all of them are on the verge of being mega-bangers. The two studio takes are enjoyable yet ultimately classic "dad jazz". "India" features some Dolphy dissonance that didn't please me much - it sounds much better when both Dolphy and Trane play the same motif together, and the title track loses itself in some monotony. Shame, 'cause the banging minutes are truly banging (those Elvin Jones' fucking drums on the t/t would put St Merat to shame).
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| 3.5 great | GamamJ | October 29th 20 |
A solid album, sure, and gives us a few first tastes of how experimental Coltrane is about to be, but the production is a huge minus. The members other than Coltrane are almost not to be found, especially the piano, and my issue related to this goes beyond the production. I feel they deserve a lot more soloing room than they get.
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | October 12th 20 |
After a lot of frankenstein albums assembled without Coltrane's input, it feels nice to finally come back to an actual record of his. We're back to the spice, especially with 1 which is perhaps the most dissonant and 'experimental' we've seen him being on record yet. It's almost excessive in places, but after the lukewarm fake coltrane albums that preceded it still feels cool. The track also introduces the major issue with the album: mixing and panning. While on 1 it's not too bad (but still a weak point), which can be partly forgiven because of it being a live take, on 2 it is frankly awful even though it isn't a live one. 3 improves but has some blatant mixing quirks, and 4 is the best one off. Despite the mix 2 is nice, and the more upbeat and dancey 3 is perhaps the best track here with really nice prominent drumming and a cool piano addition as conclusion. 4 is softer and very rainy feeling (so the title is of questionable accuracy hehe), super nice, but it concludes a bit into nothing, which coupled with the non-uniform mix hurts the album feel a bit, dropping this half a point. 3.95
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| 4.0 excellent | MvdW | October 26th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Samuel | September 27th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Onirium | October 9th 20 |
| 3.5 great | remi | June 1st 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Josh | February 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | June 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | RyanW | May 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Onater | April 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | crab | February 20th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | JoeFar | December 3rd 18 |
| 5.0 classic | tracyt | June 21st 18 |
| 3.0 good | NateMa | March 20th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | solrage | October 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | September 8th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | YakNips | April 3rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | rjk | June 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Acorn | October 3rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | gelud | April 9th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Mendigo | February 19th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Skipdog | September 21st 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Moddrum | November 18th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | IAJP | July 21st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | cuki92 | July 19th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | const | June 25th 10 |
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