Both Directions at Once

[Dan Warburton]

Yippee, looking forward to this



https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/ ... discovered

[Wombatz]

what's the other direction?

[Dan Warburton]

Above-linked article explains that.

[Claud601]

what's the other direction?

One direction

[Steve Minkin]

Just got and listening for the first time to the 2-CD deluxe version. I love this!! This is the classic quartet a year before Crescent and A Love Supreme, they had just released the Coltrane & Ellington and Ballads albums, and recorded the album with Johnny Hartman the following week. This is an album of material they were playing nightly at the clubs, and one of the most conventionally 'swinging' of his albums.

There are two terrific previously unnamed composition (now named "Untitled Original 1183 & 1186) , a deliciously bluesy of 'Nature Boy,' two versions of 'Impressions,' 'Vilia' by Franz Lehár (previously released as a bonus track on Live At Birdland), other goodies.

If somebody new to Coltrane asked me for recs, this might not be among the top ten. But I have little doubt that -- for me -- it's the Trane album I will be playing most over the next couple of years.

[Dan Warburton]

I have to say I was a little underwhelmed - though even second division Coltrane is better than first division justaboutanybodyelse. As completists - I'd guess your record collection is bigger than mine, Steve - of course we're thrilled at the appearance of unreleased stuff from our heroes, but I suspect there was a reason it ended up being buried in a drawer under someone's bed for years. I should research the backstory a bit further.

[negative potential]

Have to say I love this. I can understand why Dan would say he's underwhelmed, but that's not my feeling. This isn't some missing link or rosetta stone providing some key to the sound universe of the classic quartet; it's routine classic quartet at its near-peak right _before_ it made history.