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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | August 23rd 24 |
Both Directions At Once refers to Coltrane's will to conclude his then artistic vision and continue pushing the envelope of his soundscape. This session was recorded in March 1963 with the good ol' quartet, and it was only released in 2018 because Coltrane was too prolific for his different record deals to release all his sessions. Also, although all tunes are engaging thanks to their modal take on post and hard bop, they aren't exactly on par with Trane's best material of '63 - ie Duke Ellington & John Coltrane or Impressions , even though the title track of the latter gets a welcome studio take here.
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| 3.0 good | Bedex | March 22nd 22 |
Again, qualifying this as a lost 'album' is a bit of an overstatement. In truth this is mostly a collection of random bits from recording session(?s) that exemplifies quite well the importance of album construction and the hurt of lack thereof. The tracks taken individually are all quite very good, and in fact quite a few made it to playlists, but even just Disc 1 taken alone doesn't feel cohesive or like it has any sense of direction. 1 is a hell of a tune in classic coltrane fashion, and 2 is pretty good too though not as much, whilst 3-4 are much smoother and really nice easy jazz. 5's quite good too, but already this feels too disjointed to be a solid album. 6 starts very low energy although it gets better, and by 7 this already felt too long. Disc 2 with all its repeats (the record counts a total of 4 takes of Impression and 3 takes of Untitled 11386) just feels like a long, repetitive series of clones of the same tracks that already repeat their motifs within themselves, and my rating dropped quite dramatically. More of a compilation for overenthusiastic fans than a 'Lost Album'. 3.2
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| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | May 14th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | ZIG | February 19th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Samuel | February 1st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Onater | April 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | JS98 | April 1st 19 |
| 3.5 great | Csongli | November 20th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | July 5th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | July 5th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Skoop | July 1st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juanpa | June 30th 18 |
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