Browse: Impulse! Records (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Impulse! Records.
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This has to be pick of-the-month for historical interest alone, but for those of us who admire the passion and abandonment of late-period Coltrane this is a gift. Hardly a comfortable ‘listen’,... — More…
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Pitchfork, Best New Music, Best New Reissue
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Jazz Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021, Reissues/Archive
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The Guardian, Jazz Album of the Month, October 2021
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John Coltrane: Both Directions At Once - The Lost Album
John Coltrane (saxophone), Jimmy Garrison (double bass), Elvin Jones (drums), McCoy Tyner (piano)
There’s always a fascination about newly discovered material, how it adds to our received knowledge, why it wasn’t released at the time, what happened to the tapes in the interim and so on. Everything... — More…
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Rolling Stone, Best Jazz Albums of All Time
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Grammy Awards, 40th Awards (1997), Nominee: Best Jazz Vocal Performance
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Post-1980)
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There have been some fascinating, and absorbing, discoveries of previously unissued Coltrane material culled from a variety of sources, but this one takes the biscuit. — More…
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Jazzwise, Recommended Reissue/Archive, August 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Past Present
RecommendedJohn Scofield (guitar), Bill Stewart (drums), Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone), Larry Grenadier (double bass)
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Jazz Instrumental Album
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Jazz Instrumental Album
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Nominee: Best Improvised Jazz Solo
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It’s muscular stuff, a clarion call for energetic, overwhelming music designed to be played as loudly as possible. Leavers is the driving force, commanding a plethora of buzzy synths, string... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Ascension
RecommendedPharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone), John Tchicai (alto saxophone), Marion Brown (alto saxophone), Dewey Johnson (trumpet), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Archie Shepp (tenor saxophone), Art Davis (upright bass), McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (upright bass), Elvin Jones (drums)
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Crowned
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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Infused with classical influences and very relaxing […] Younger delivers [this album] with a soothing sound and plays eloquently while paying homage to her hero. — More…
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2023
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Ascension
RecommendedJohn Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone), John Tchicai (alto saxophone), Marion Brown (alto saxophone), Dewey Johnson (trumpet), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Archie Shepp (tenor saxophone), Art Davis (upright bass), McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (upright bass), Elvin Jones (drums)
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Crowned
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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Four For Trane
RecommendedArchie Shepp, Roswell Rudd (trombone), John Tchicai (alto saxophone), Reggie Workman (upright bass), Charles Moffett (drums), Alan Shorter (flugelhorn)
Four For Trane demonstrates not only a shift in allegiance to Coltrane but a real gift for arrangement and a thoroughly original approach to his own playing at a time when everyone was copying... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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