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Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy

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But the beauty of their interplay was tightly wound in the tension of two self-directed men with irrepressible appetites for innovation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There were precedents for composers using two bassists, but arguably no one before Coltrane had saddled one bassist with roving lead parts and another with a stationary, raga-inflected drone. He flails against orthodoxy, rattles the bars of swing time and jeers at the expectations of consistency that percussionists have to shoulder. Coltrane plays a hit (“My Favorite Things”), a standard from before his era (1936’s “When Lights Are Low”), a song that he would not put out on record for several years (“Impressions”), and a couple of recordings that the world was about to hear in studio form (“Greensleeves” and “Africa”).

Ninety minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, offering a glimpse into a powerful musical partnership that ended much too soon. Fans expecting this treatment may be displeased, but their reactions befit the artist—Coltrane never liked meeting expectations. His early-’60s classics Giant Steps and “Live” at the Village Vanguard planted seeds for free and spiritual jazz, which flowered into teeming subgenres.The concert itself is fascinating Coltrane still is modal mode but getting increasingly ferocious in his sound explorations with Dolphy going his own way into the avant garde with his angular, but not unmelodic, sound.

John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy Evenings At The Village Gate Reviewed: Newly rediscovered sessions show a genius in transition Rediscovered performances from 1961 document the saxophone colossus’s short-lived quintet including multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. The sound quality is not up to Impulse’s own recordings of Coltrane with the same group made three months later, originally issued as Live at the Village Vanguard. Andrew Male of Mojo gave this release 4 out of 5 stars, praising several tracks, including the concluding recording of "Africa" as being like a "historic moment", and also notes the extensive liner notes from Ashley Kahn. In Under the Radar, Matthew Berlyant scored this album 8 out of 10, characterizing the release as "an absolute delight for those who want to hear these two colossuses of the saxophone".Patrick Hadfield lives in Edinburgh, occasionally takes photographs, and sometimes blogs at On the Beat.

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