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1961 Helsinki Concert | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Coltrane Quintet
Label: Gambit Spain
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 16523
Format: Extra Tracks, Import, Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 8436028692750
ASIN: B000TYCX4S
Release Date: September 24, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Impressions | | • | My Favorite Things | | • | Blue Train | | • | I Want To Talk About You | | • | Walkin (Bonus Track) | | • | On Green Dolphin Street (Bonus Track) | | • | Theme (Bonus Track) |
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Album Description
John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy played and recorded together on many occasions. However, given the quality of their music and the high level of creativity involved in every single one of their performances, all new additions are always welcome. In this case, we present a previously unissued concert recorded from a radio broadcast in Helsinki in 1961, during the European tour in which Dolphy joined Trane's legendary quartet. The Helsinki performance showcases both Coltrane and Dolphy's musical explorations in search of new ways to express themselves. As a bonus to this newly heard performance, we offer another concert set. This is a true rarity, for the April 1, 1960 Duesseldorf concert marked Coltrane's last gig with Miles in 1960. Davis was unable to attend the date for unknown reasons, and so Trane performed alone backed by Miles' outstanding rhythm section (Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums). It is interesting to hear Coltrane in a quartet format shortly before he formed his own famous unit with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones. Seven tracks. Gambit.
Album Details
2007 Release of an Unearthed Complete Performance by the Legendary Saxophonist Teamed with the Equally Legendary Eric Dolphy. Includes a Bonus Rare Quartet Performance by Coltrane with the Wynton Kelly Trio.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Tape speed too slow March 30, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A poor recording of a good concert of a great group. Tape speed is too slow... bootleg versions are much better. Earlier session is interesting but poor sound quality makes it difficult to listen to.
 A FIERY SET BY THE JOHN COLTRANE QUINTET IN HELSINKI, FEATURING ERIC DOLPHY October 9, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Five IMPRESSIVE Stars!! John Coltrane, the late, great jazz saxophone genius who continues to be one of the most influential forces in the history of modern jazz, and other musical genres as well, is absolutely on fire with his quintet in Helsinki Finland. The other players in this 1961 set include 'reed master supreme' Eric Dolphy on alto sax and flute; the influential McCoy Tyner on piano; Reggie Workman on bass; and Elvin Jones on drums who also was a great influence on drummers with his poly-rhythmic technique. This recording also has bonus tracks of Coltrane performing with Miles Davis' 1961 rhythm section live in Dusseldorf Germany, which consisted of Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul (Mr PC) Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums. The quintet has hot, 'free-roaming' Coltrane and blazing, 'angular' Dolphy running the chord changes and using compositional 'modes' to extend their thematic solos, but this is not 'The New Thing' or late-period 'celestial' Coltrane. The MIles Davis rhythm section is in wonderful form and Trane scorches the set with great "sheets of sound" runs.
The quintet set has 4 Coltrane 'standards': a sizzling "Impressions", a 20 minute beautifully intense "My Favorite Things" (with a sensational Dolphy flute solo), "Blue Trane", and a touching "I Want To Talk About You". Coltrane, at the top of his game throughout, employs many of the musical weapons from his bag of tricks at that time, including "sheets of sound", overblowing his reed, declarative convoluted phrasing, and 'the Coltrane cry'. Messrs Dolphy, Tyner, Jones and Workman are likewise excellent in solo and 'comping'. Unfortunately the sound is not up to 'Rudy Van Gelder standards', tending to lose Reggie Workman's pizzicato work at times, but not his arco solos.
"On Green Dolphin Street" has a marvelous Wyn Kelly out of tempo rhapsodic introduction and solo, each leading to blazingly lyrical solos by Trane using his yearning sound and 'the cry'. This is a clear demonstration of the sound and technique that would heavily influence future sax stars like Charles Lloyd and Michael Brecker, until they broke free to find their own sound. Also "Walkin' '' is performed superbly and we get a full 3 and a half minutes of "The Theme" which is usually heard briefly on Miles' recordings. My Highest Recommendation, sound problems aside: this is too good to miss ! Five HUGE Stars !!
(Notes:
*Audio CD: 64:40 total time, acceptable but not great sound.
* This recording has 4 musicians who were later elected to the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame: Coltrane, Dolphy, Tyner, and Elvin Jones.)
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