John Coltrane Centennial 2026

[mikeweil]

What do you thinl the record Compagnie will throw upon us next year? And what would you really want?

Edited August 17 by mikeweil

[Pim]

I'm in for all Classic Quartet and late sextet recordings. I'd love to hear this:

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, March 29, 1967

90784	Number Eight	Impulse! lost
90785	Number Seven	-
90786	Number Six	-
90787	Number Five	-
90788	Number Four	-
90789	Number Two

[Ken Dryden]

I wonder how many tapes made at Van Gelder's had backup copies.

Didn't impulse! have a fire at some point?

 

[Pim]

1 hour ago, Ken Dryden said:

I wonder how many tapes made at Van Gelder's had backup copies.

Didn't impulse! have a fire at some point?

 

You mean the big Universal fire? There was definitely Coltrane material destroyed there

[jazzbo]

I imagine Ravi has been consulted re: any tapes he may have still unreleased.

[JSngry]

It's time for Creation.

[Chuck Nessa]

2 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

I wonder how many tapes made at Van Gelder's had backup copies.

Didn't impulse! have a fire at some point?

 

I thought it was Atlantic.

 

[Daniel A]

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/83424-john-coltrane-impulse-masters-destroyed/

[Ken Dryden]

3 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I thought it was Atlantic.

 

There were Atlantic masters of John Coltrane lost earlier, it was mentioned in the liner notes to The Heavyweight Champion box set.

[bertrand]

The family had some of their own copies of material, which has allowed some unissued sessions to be released. But it is not clear if they have anything left or if that has been completely mined. I am curious about some of the last sessions, like the one Pim mentioned.

Edited August 18 by bertrand

[mikeweil]

What I would really like is a CD with all tracks from this session:

660202          JOHN COLTRANE SEXTET:

Personnel: John Coltrane, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo; Alice Coltrane, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; Ray Appleton, perc
Location: 'Coast Records', San Francisco CA
Date: 2/2/66
Engineer: Rudy Hill

a. "Manifestation" (J. Coltrane) 11:44

CRC AU4950; Imp AS9223-2 more

b. "Reverend King" (J. Coltrane) 10:45

CRC AU4950 more

c. "Peace On Earth" (J. Coltrane) 9:03

Imp A9225, IA9360 more

d. "Leo" (J. Coltrane) 10:08

Imp A9225 more

NOTE:Sanders plays pic and ts on 660202a; Coltrane plays bcl and ts on 660202b. See Note for a discussion of this session.

From http://www.wildmusic-jazz.com/jcdisc66.htm

[felser]

@mikeweil. Good call, that's the session that got Alice's overdubs for the Infinity album.

[ghost of miles]

An official release of some of the live early-1960s material that Frank Tiberi recorded. 

 

[mikeweil]

1 hour ago, felser said:

@mikeweil. Good call, that's the session that got Alice's overdubs for the Infinity album.

Yes - I have these but still would like them as originally recorded.

Besides that, the playing time would make it an LP issue just as well.

[felser]

33 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

Yes - I have these but still would like them as originally recorded.

Besides that, the playing time would make it an LP issue just as well.

I fully agree with both of your points, thanks!

[clifford_thornton]

I'd love to hear the quintet session with Marion Brown if it survived.

[optatio]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

I'd love to hear the quintet session with Marion Brown if it survived.

Me too ...  https://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/r/johncoltrane19670227.html