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| 0.0 | Athom EMERITUS | July 7th 10 |
The spiritual successor to A Love Supreme
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | February 6th 22 |
1 reminds a lot of the noir NYC vibes of A Love Supreme, but in a more dancy club jazz form, and with some dissonances here and there. Super hella cool. This makes sense, as the LP was actually recoded in 1965, though released in 1970. This was the, hum, transition record between ALS and the later more dissonant freeform output. Thus I am not surprised to love this learning that this was actually recorded by the classic Coltrane quartet. 2 is a lot mellower but is not bad at all as far as soft wine and cheese jazz goes, the piano is especially nice and playful. The second half of 3 is fantastic and very similar to 1. I do prefer it largely over the first half, but it is cool too. It brings back the dissonance nicely after 2, and takes a while to get started but is worth the wait for that dissonance classic quartet sound. Compared to 1 it is a bit less dancy and catchy, more on the grand baroque dissonant side. The bass solo feels far too long, but the reprise afterwards is great with cool dark vibes. This LP is truly excellent jazz, but not packed in a way that makes it easy to share as there are spurts of dissonance and weirdness which prevent the two major tracks from going onto playlists. Perhaps not one of the greatest greatest, but certainly feels like a minor major opus in coltrane's major opus-full career. Very consistent aside from the long transition mid track 3 and perhaps its first half. 4.15
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| 3.5 great | commonist | August 18th 18 |
76/100. Yet another solid release from the end of Coltrane's career. For fans of post-Love Supreme trane, Transition will be certain to please, clocking in at around 40 minutes of loosely-free spiritual jazz. While I wasn't crazy about the opening track due to its length and stagnant structure, I absolutely loved the rest of the LP. The shimmering cymbals on 'Welcome' feel genuinely ethereal, and the monster track 'Suite' proves to be a powerful closer, with multiple movements and interesting transitions. All in all, I would rank this below some of his other same-era work but would still like to revisit this soon.
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| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | May 14th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bren80 | August 9th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | mrfixit | March 9th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jrpuri2 | September 11th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | May 20th 16 |
| 3.0 good | loulou | March 11th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | WJM73 | April 29th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | cuki92 | January 25th 12 |
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