A great live session with lots of heights, but that's a bit too long and often fails to convince me that I should come back to these live versions instead of the studio ones. These are all quite recognisable tunes, especially My Favorite Things on 4 of course. It illustrates what I am saying here: it is still a great tune, and some sections in this live version are especially cool, but overall I still would check the studio version over this any day. 1 starts off relatively relaxed and bland but does gain in spice as it goes, while the relaxed 2 continues this with touches of piano and drums spice but nothing too crazy. 3 is just Coltrane having fun. 5 is another highly recognisable tune, and 6 is super fun. After the calmer and cute 7, 8 is also calm and at this point the length of the record is starting to become really plapable. 9 does save the day by being crazy cool fun again, but overall I think the average on this is bang on. It's great, but it isn't by any means a top tier Coltrane record, even if you just look at his live stuff. 3.7
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