Afro Blue Impressions: Double Vinyl LP

Label: Craft Recordings
Release Date: 19th April

Essential live jazz recordings from the GOAT, full of life and a verve for improvisation and taking jazz to ever expanding levels.

The recordings that make up Afro Blue Impressions were acquired by jazz impresario/auteur Norman Granz during the tours he produced for many jazz artists during the 1960s, though they weren't issued until 1973. Recorded at shows in Berlin and Stockholm, the John Coltrane Quartet -- with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones -- is in tremendous form here, using a familiar repertoire in order to expand upon the group's own building blocks in creating the new post-harmonic system that the saxophonist was developing. Reissued on vinyl by Craft Recordings, released as part of the Craft Jazz Essentials series.

Tracklist

Side A
1. Lonnie's Lament
2. Naima
3. Chasin' The Trane

Side B
1. My Favorite Things

Side C
1. Afro Blue
2. Cousin Mary
3. I Want To Talk About You

Side D
1. Spiritual
2. Impressions