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| 3.5 great | Bedex | June 15th 22 |
This oozes big energy through every minute, and there's 247 of them. A behemoth that mostly suffers from being so unmanageably long. I find the piano focused moments are often the best, and the drumming is a strong point throughout. The story behind this as the one and only, utterly triumphant, frantically packed Japanese Coltrane tour 1yr before his passing is of note. Overall I'd say Shinjuku [...] got the better concert of the two, but the first one starts very strong with 1, a huge, intense, spicy jazz trip that makes you want tattoos, tho the sax occasionally gets a bit too gnarly. 2 begins a lot calmer before gradually waking up to a pretty cool track too. 3 starts with a 12 min long bass solo which makes for a veeery calm transition, then grows into an increasingly noisy and gritty track that gets cool but feels like its takes ages to end, tho the finale with the crowd is great. As we switch into the Shinjuku concert, 4 starts as relaxed and blissful as its title indicates before nicely growing more anxious to transform into a really cool, fever dream kinda spiritual track that reminds me of First Meditations. 5's a nicely gritty track with some moments that make sense amid chaos and a hella cool drum solo, a track that makes you travel places. The piano heavy, fast drums finale is very fireworksily nocturnal and is very cool. 6 starts with a 15 min bass solo, and although its second half is better I find it a bit less convincing than some other tracks here. It's a bit weird but a bit fun to hear the Favorite Thigns themes popping up amidst chaos. How do you boil down 4hrs+ of Coltrane to one rating? 3.6
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| 3.5 great | mmmonty | September 12th 20 |
It's hard to focus on the big picture with Coltrane, I find. It's easier to focus just on a few minutes at a time because, often, so much is happening. This was great, especially the 45 minute long Meditations (and its incredible 10 minute long drum solo). But I didn't love it because I couldn't step back and see a cohesive structure to it, the way you can with other jazz.
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| 4.0 excellent | Hawks CONTRIBUTOR | May 13th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | ZIG | February 19th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Rinami | July 12th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Rinami | July 12th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Samuel | February 1st 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Josh | July 18th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | solrage | March 24th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | bmelt | December 6th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | Henry | September 8th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | ermwa | October 2nd 11 |
| 4.5 superb | beans | January 4th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Kage | July 24th 08 |
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