This is cool, but if i got to see a Coltrane gig this wouldn't be my first pick. Tbf I wasn't expecting something this free jazzey, thus was perhaps not in the best mood for it. The first track starts alright, but the weird brass starting at 3:30 (is it Pharoah Sanders' solo?) really is not my cuppa. It's cool in an avant-garde sort of fashion to be able to make your brass instrument sound like a dying cow at times, but as a musical experience it's a no from me. The piano in the back by Alice Coltrane is super pretty though. Aside from that solo the track is kinda cool Coltrane stuff, far less free than Ascension but still with a solid amount of dissonance. After a cool meditiative interlude on 2, we are offered a version of My Favorite Things that is hardly recognisable except in a couple places at min 3 and near the end (where it is particularly cool amidst the semi-chaos), and is otherwise quite crazy and free, displaying Coltrane's evolution within the decade. The mix at min 7 is particularly cool with the brass going crazy on the right side and a wee flute playing gently quietly on the left. There are some weird fade ins n outs in places but that remains rare and not a problem - the mix was a bit more difficult on 1. Okay but not really an album I would come back to often in Coltrane's discog, except maybe for Alice's piano. 3.7
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