John Coltrane Quartet: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) 1LP ETJS-37 New Beginnings

New Beginnings

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John Coltrane Quartet: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) 1LP ETJS-37 New BeginningsVerve, 1965 Recorded in two sessions just a few months after working on A Love Supreme, this album makes for a perfect introduction to Coltranes final period as a leader. Though Art Davis plays second bass on Nature Boy, the classic quartet of Coltrane with McCoy Tyner (piano), Elvin Jones (drums) and Jimmy Garrison (bass) is at full heat, leaning hard into more free improvisation with a matter of fact confidence that will become more normalized over