🎧 John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, "Evenings at the Village Gate". Recorded in 1961, as JC and ED were starting to take shit from the "community" about their new music being "anti-jazz". The recording was discovered at the NY Public Library in 2017. It sounds pretty damned good too, a very much "you are there" quality. JC and ED are inventing new notes on their respective instruments, with the quartet in full boil. A valuable historic jazz document.
https://songwhip.com/john-coltrane/evenings-at-the-village-gate-john-coltrane-with-eric-dolphy
BTW - Amazon music has the recording.. in 24/192 res
@tgraph52
Yep - I'm listening to the cd now.
it's pretty wild stuff!!
🎶 😎 🎶
@tgraph52
"Africa" is riDONKulous. I can't imagine sitting in that club with my face screwed up saying "that ain't jazz"
@MPCavalier
"A private recording taken by the sound engineer at the Village Gate nightclub in Greenwich Village without Coltrane’s permission somehow went missing, was found again and then disappeared, only to turn up in the holdings of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, discovered by a Bob Dylan researcher."