Product Description
Next year marks the 65th anniversary of Impulse! and the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane's birth! To commemorate this momentous anniversary, 14 of Impulse!'s representative masterpieces, originally released for the 50th anniversary, are being re-pressed.
* This label is also attracting a lot of attention in "BLUE GIANT MOMENTUM," currently serialized in Big Comic.
* This ambitious work was released by McCoy Tyner, who was on a roll as a member of the John Coltrane Quartet at the time. It couples original compositions by a three-horn sextet with standard tunes by a trio.
* Personnel: McCoy Tyner (p), Thad Jones (tp), Frank Stroger (as), John Gilmore (ts), Butch Warren, Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones, Albert Heath (ds)
* Recorded on June 4, 1963 and February 4, 1964 at Van Gelder Studios, New Jersey
