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.
* A landmark work by Pharaoh, who inherited Coltrane's music after his death and continued to develop it in his own way. The title track, featuring Leon Thomas, is a masterpiece that heralds the beginning of 1970s black jazz.
Pharoah Sanders (ts) 1: Leon Thomas (vo, per), James Spaulding (fl), Julius Watkins (Frh), Ronnie Liston Smith (p), Richard Davis (b), Reggie Workman (b), Bill Hart (ds), Nathaniel Bettis (per) 2: Leon Thomas (vo, per), Julius Watkins (Frh), Ronnie Liston Smith (p), Reggie Workman, Ron Carter (b), Freddie Waits (ds) Recorded in New York on February 14 & 19, 1969