Coltrane in Finland

[Chris Hanna]

5 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:

I received a rather beat up box from The Lost Recordings yesterday, though the LPs and CDs were intact in spite of the badly torn cardboard. I haven't had a chance to listen to the John Coltrane set yet, but I am looking forward to it.

A second shipment arrived today, duplicating my order. I await a reply from them about that, it would be a rather expensive error.

Huh, mine was fine!  However, it sat in France for over two weeks (in/at La Poste) prior to being finally shipped to the US, then it was about a week from NY to Chicago.  La Poste has been having a very rough time lately, having been subjected to TWO separate and severe DDoS attacks -- which may be behind some of it.  Interested to hear your thoughts on the recordings, though.  I'm assuming the CD was something other than the Coltrane...I didn't see that was an option/available.

[Ken Dryden]

This John Coltrane set was not available as a CD set.

The CDs I bought were the Sarah Vaugan 1969 and 1975 titles.

[RiRiIII]

soon on cd too:

https://thelostrecordings.store/en/collections/tous-nos-produits/products/john-coltrane-live-in-finland-1961-1962-double-uhqcd

 

 

[jazzbo]

Thanks for the heads up!

[romualdo]

Disappointing release for me - the 62 concert actually had 7 tracks, but only three of these have been released on this set

1. I want to Talk About You (08:30)

2. Every time We Say Goodbye (05:20) - this track previously unreleased - listed in The Coltrane Reference

3. Bye Bye Blackbird (20:25)

They could have loaded much more music onto the double CD version, probably most of the tracks below

John Coltrane Quartet : John Coltrane (ts,sop) McCoy Tyner (p) Jimmy Garrison (b) Elvin Jones (d)

Concert, "Kulttuuritalo", Helsinki, Finland, November 20, 1962

	Bye bye blackbird	Le Chant Du Monde (F)5742752.61 [CD]
	The inch worm	-
	Ev'ry time we say goodbye	-
	Mr. P.C.	-
	Traneing in	-
	My favorite things	-

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[Chris Hanna]

I’d have to recheck JC Ref again, but “every time” may have been misidentified as “I want to talk” in precious release(s). As I noted in prior posts, the only track that had not been released previously was the (real) “I want to talk”. And to your point, they may have gotten more onto a CD — perhaps that is something for the future??

recall, though: prior releases of these concerts may (probably?) be based on high quality private recordings of the original radio broadcasts — like MANY unofficial releases out there — whereas these were from the original studio tapes that were apparently in rough condition (based on the liner notes). Perhaps these were the only salvageable tracks?? Don’t know….but it is a fair point.

[hbbfam]

I haven't seen any reviews on Hoffman or here regarding these releases.  About a $60 investment with shipping.  Worth it?

[jazzbo]

The cd set has not yet been released or has just been released not sure which, so that may explain no reviews of that, and the LP set is even more prohibitively expensive. I have the cd set on pre-order and ordered the two volumes of Stan Getz at Zardi's to help with the postal bite, but have about three to four weeks to wait yet before one is received.

Judging from the other sets of theirs I have I expect the sound quality to be the best the source would be.

 

EDIT to add: I just got a shipping notice.

Edited yesterday at 09:59 PM by jazzbo

[Chris Hanna]

48 minutes ago, hbbfam said:

I haven't seen any reviews on Hoffman or here regarding these releases.  About a $60 investment with shipping.  Worth it?

I feel it was worth it. Sound quality is exceptional and they give you a code for downloading lossless digital files. I’m very happy with the purchase.

[hbbfam]

$64 shipped is a bit much.

[jazzbo]

Well, life won't end without it.

[romualdo]

11 hours ago, jazzbo said:

The cd set has not yet been released or has just been released not sure which, so that may explain no reviews of that, and the LP set is even more prohibitively expensive

estimated date of CD release listed as approx April 13 (from Lost website)

[jazzbo]

Well, they must have chanbged that recently, it was showing earlier last week and I got a shipping notice yesterday for my pre-order.

[Chris Hanna]

The LP was delayed a week or two as well, not surprising.