Live! at the Village Vanguard

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Live at the Village Vanguard
Live at the Village Vanguard cover
Live album by John Coltrane
Released 1961
Recorded 1961
Genre Avant-garde jazz
Post-bop
Length 36:31
Label Impulse!
Producer Bob Thiele
Professional reviews

Live at the Village Vanguard is a 1961 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. One side of the original LP was devoted to "Chasin' The Trane" which has been described as one of Coltrane's most important performances. [1] In a 1966 interview Coltrane recalled that he had "listened to John Gilmore kind of closely before I made Chasin the Trane" [2]

The Village Vanguard engagements were a focal point for Coltrane's partnership with Eric Dolphy. Other recordings from the concerts appeared originally on the Impressions LP. Interest in the results of that collaboration has led to subsequent extended reissues of the material - first in the 1977 issue of a double-LP of The Other Village Vanguard Tapes and then in the 1997 4-CD issue of the complete sessions.

The accuracy of Miles Mode's title and authorship has been the subject of some dispute. On some releases it has been titled The Red Planet and composer credit given to Eric Dolphy.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Original LP release Live at the Village Vanguard, 1961 (Impulse)

  1. "Spiritual" — 13:47
  2. "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" — 6:36
  3. "Chasin' The Trane" — 16:08

[edit] Japanese CD release "Live" at the Village Vanguard 11-01-1961 (Impulse MVCI-23001, 1991)

  1. "Chasin' The Trane"
  2. "Impressions"
  3. "Spiritual"
  4. "The Red Planet"
  5. "Naima"
  6. "Brasilia"

[edit] Japanese CD release "Live" at the Village Vanguard 11-02-1961 (Impulse MVCI-23002-3, 1991)

Disc 1

  1. "Chasin' Another Trane"
  2. "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise"
  3. "Chasin' The Trane"

Disc 2

  1. "India"
  2. "Spiritual"
  3. "Greensleeves"
  4. "Impressions"

[edit] Japanese CD release "Live" at the Village Vanguard 11-03&05-1961 (Impulse MVCI-23004-5, 1991)

Disc 1

  1. "Spiritual"
  2. "Impressions"
  3. "India"
  4. "Greensleeves"

Disc 2

  1. "India"
  2. "Spiritual"

[edit] The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (1997)

  1. "India"
  2. "Chasin' The Trane"
  3. "Impressions"
  4. "Spiritual"
  5. "Miles Mode"
  6. "Naima"
  7. "Brasilia"
  8. "Chasin' Another Trane"
  9. "India"
  10. "Spiritual"
  11. "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise"
  12. "Chasin' The Trane"
  13. "Greensleeves"
  14. "Impressions"
  15. "Spiritual"
  16. "Naima"
  17. "Impressions"
  18. "India"
  19. "Greensleeves"
  20. "Miles Mode"
  21. "India"
  22. "Spiritual"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Recorded November 2 and November 3, 1961 in New York City

[edit] The complete sessions also feature

[edit] References

  1. ^ Wild, David (1976), The Other Village Vanguard Tapes 
  2. ^ Kofsky, Frank (1970). Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music. Pathfinder Press, 235. 

[edit] External links

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