The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings

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The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings

Live album by John Coltrane
Released	September 23, 1997
Recorded	November 1–3 and 5, 1961 Village Vanguard, New York City, U.S.
Genre	Jazz
Length	269:42
Label	Impulse! IMPD4-232
Producer	Bob Thiele

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[2]

The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings is a box set credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, issued posthumously in 1997 by Impulse Records, catalogue IMPD4-232. It collects the entirety of the recorded sets by the John Coltrane Quintet at the Village Vanguard in early November, 1961. Five selections had been issued during Coltrane's lifetime on the albums Live! at the Village Vanguard and Impressions.

Background

It was the idea of new producer Bob Thiele to record Coltrane live over four nights in early November, Thiele meeting the saxophonist for the first time face-to-face at the club.^[3] This commenced a close working relationship between Thiele and Coltrane that would last for the rest of his time at Impulse, Thiele producing virtually every subsequent album. Thiele secured Coltrane's trust right away by not insisting he record his most popular song, "My Favorite Things", during these shows.^[4] Sound engineer Rudy Van Gelder set up his equipment at a table by the stage,^[5] and for these concerts Coltrane would often enhance the Quintet by adding tampura, contrabassoon, oboe, or a second bass.

Content

Ten titles were performed over the course of the evenings: "Brasilia", "Chasin' the Trane", "Chasin' Another Trane", "Greensleeves", "Impressions", "India", "Miles' Mode", "Naima", "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise", and "Spiritual". Many were performed multiple times using varied line-ups and instrumentation, the core being the Quintet of Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, bassists Reggie Workman or Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones.

The authorship of "Miles' Mode", also known as "Red Planet", is in dispute, attributed to Dolphy rather than Coltrane.^[6] A single-disc sampler containing the five tracks released on Live! at the Village Vanguard and Impressions was issued on February 24, 1998, as Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Takes.

Track listing

Disc one and disc two track 1 recorded November 1, 1961; disc two tracks 2-5 and disc three tracks 1-3 recorded November 2, 1961; disc three tracks 4-6 and disc four tracks 1-3 recorded November 3, 1961; and disc four tracks 4-5 recorded November 5, 1961.

Disc one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"India" (JC ss, ED bc, MT p, JG b, RW b, EJ d, AA ou)	John Coltrane	10:33
2.	"Chasin' the Trane" (JC ts, ED as, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	9:52
3.	"Impressions" (JC ts, ED as, MT p, JG b, EJ d)	Coltrane	8:52
4.	"Spiritual" (JC ss, ED bc, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	12:49
5.	"Miles' Mode" (JC ts, ED as, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	10:22
6.	"Naima" (JC ts, ED bc, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	7:40

Disc two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Brasilia" (JC ts, ED as, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	18:45
2.	"Chasin' Another Trane" (JC ts, ED as, RW b, RH d)	Coltrane	15:35
3.	"India" (JC ss, ED bc, MT p, JG b, RW b, EJ d, AA ou, GB ob)	Coltrane	13:14
4.	"Spiritual" (JC ss ts, ED bc, MT p, RW b, EJ d, GB c-bs)	Coltrane	15:13
5.	"Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" (JC ss, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II	6:38

Disc three

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Chasin' the Trane" (JC ts, JG b, EJ d)	Coltrane	16:08
2.	"Greensleeves" (JC ss, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	traditional	6:51
3.	"Impressions" (JC ts, ED as, MT p, JG b, EJ d)	Coltrane	10:59
4.	"Spiritual" (JC ts ss, ED bc, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	13:48
5.	"Naima" (JC ts, ED bc, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	7:07
6.	"Impressions" (JC ts, MT p, JG b, EJ d)	Coltrane	14:52

Disc four

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"India" (JC ss, ED bc, MT p, JG b, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	14:03
2.	"Greensleeves" (JC ss, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	traditional	5:02
3.	"Miles' Mode" (JC ts, ED as, MT p, JG b, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	15:25
4.	"India" (JC ss, ED bc, MT p, JG b, RW b, EJ d, AA ou, GB ob)	Coltrane	15:14
5.	"Spiritual" (JC ts ss, ED bc, MT p, RW b, EJ d, GB c-bs)	Coltrane	20:40

1998 Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Takes

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Spiritual" (JC ts ss, ED bc, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	13:31
2.	"Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" (JC ss, MT p, RW b, EJ d)	Romberg, Hammerstein	6:25
3.	"Chasin' the Trane" (JC ts, JG b, EJ d)	Coltrane	15:55
4.	"India" (JC ss, ED bc, MT p, JG b, RW b, EJ d)	Coltrane	13:55
5.	"Impressions" (JC ts, MT p, JG b, EJ d)	Coltrane	14:45

Personnel

John Coltrane — soprano and tenor saxophone
Eric Dolphy — bass clarinet, alto saxophone
McCoy Tyner — piano
Reggie Workman — bass
Jimmy Garrison — bass
Elvin Jones — drums
Garvin Bushell — probably cor anglais (described wrongly in the disc notes as an oboe),^[7] contrabassoon
Ahmed Abdul-Malik — probably tanpura (described wrongly in the disc notes as an oud)^[7]
Roy Haynes — drums

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
↑ David A. Wild. The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings. Impulse IMPD4-232 liner notes, p. 12.
↑ Ben Ratliff. Coltrane: The Story of A Sound. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. ISBN 978-0-374-12606-3, p. 75.
↑ Wild, Impulse IMPD4-232 liner notes, pp. 15-16.
↑ Wild, Impulse IMPD4-232 liner notes, p. 33.
1 2 An Oud is Not An Oud

External links

Live at the Village Vanguard

John Coltrane

Discography

Prestige albums	Bahia The Believer Black Pearls The Cats Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette Coltrane Dakar Interplay John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane The Last Trane Lush Life Settin' the Pace Soultrane Standard Coltrane Stardust Tenor Conclave Two Tenors Wheelin' and Dealin'

Blue Note albums	Blue Train Coltrane Time

Atlantic albums	The Avant-Garde Bags & Trane Coltrane Jazz Coltrane Plays the Blues Coltrane's Sound Giant Steps My Favorite Things Olé Coltrane

Impulse! albums	Africa/Brass Ascension Ballads Coltrane Cosmic Music Crescent Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Expression First Meditations Impressions Infinity Interstellar Space John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Kulu Sé Mama A Love Supreme Meditations Om Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things Stellar Regions Sun Ship Transition

With Miles Davis	Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet Basic Miles 'Round About Midnight Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet Steamin' with The Miles Davis Quintet Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet Cookin' with The Miles Davis Quintet Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock Alley Milestones 1958 Miles Miles & Monk at Newport Kind of Blue Someday My Prince Will Come Jazz at the Plaza

With Ray Draper	The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane A Tuba Jazz

With Wilbur Harden	Mainstream 1958 Jazz Way Out Tanganyika Strut

With Thelonious Monk	The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Thelonious Himself Monk's Music Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane

Live albums	Afro Blue Impressions Bye Bye Blackbird The European Tour Live at Birdland Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up Live! at the Village Vanguard Live at the Village Vanguard Again! The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings Live in Japan Live in Paris Live in Seattle Newport '63 New Thing at Newport The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording The Paris Concert Offering: Live at Temple University

Compilations	Alternate Takes The Best of John Coltrane The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Recordings Coltrane for Lovers The Coltrane Legacy The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane The Prestige Recordings Countdown: The Savoy Sessions Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions Feelin' Good Gleanings Gold Coast The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings High Step The Major Works of John Coltrane Jupiter Variation Ken Burns Jazz: John Coltrane The Last Giant: Anthology Living Space To the Beat of a Different Drum Trane's Blues Trane's Modes

Compositions	"Alabama" "Equinox" "Giant Steps" "Impressions" "Lazy Bird" "Moment's Notice" "Naima" "Ogunde"

Documentaries	The Church of Saint Coltrane The World According to John Coltrane Trane Tracks: The Legacy of John Coltrane

Related	Coltrane changes Sheets of sound Ravi Coltrane Alice Coltrane Flying Lotus Dix Hills home Philadelphia house 5893 Coltrane asteroid John W. Coltrane Cultural Society Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane

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