Saturday, February 17, 2018

John Coltrane & Archie Shepp - New Thing at Newport cd



A "split" live album between Coltrane and Shepp from 1965 at the Newport Jazz Festival, which according to an All About Jazz review was notorious for its jazz conservatism. Unfortunately we can't hear the two giants playing together, but Trane's set includes a sublime version of "My Favorite Things" with incredibly heavy drumming by Elvin Jones, in one of the last performances of Coltrane's quartet, while Shepp plays somewhere between throwing a molotov cocktail and caressing his listeners' ears. This was originally released in 1966 by Impulse! and I have included the cd reissue liner notes and photos in the rar file.

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