Blue World

Here Coltrane sounds majestic, posing the question of whether this album (rather than A Love Supreme recorded a few months later) was the apotheosis of his ‘middle period’. — Jazzwise, November 2019, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 27th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: 7762651
Label: Impulse! Records

Jazzwise

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November 2019
The Guardian

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September 2019

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Blue World

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In 1964, the National Film Board of Canada asked John Coltrane to record the soundtrack for a French-language film titled “Le chat dans le sac” (“The Cat in the Bag”). Amazingly, no announcement was

made that the iconic Coltrane was adding new performances to this film.

In June of that year, Coltrane’s ‘Classic Quartet’ entered Rudy Van Gelder’s studio and recorded five previously-recorded Coltrane originals. For many years, viewers of the film who recognized the music thought that they were listening to the original recordings, though in fact they were new and had never been heard.

Now, with the release of Blue World, we can hear these newly-discovered recordings for the first time.

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November 2019

Here Coltrane sounds majestic, posing the question of whether this album (rather than A Love Supreme recorded a few months later) was the apotheosis of his ‘middle period’.

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