John Coltrane Quartet - Ballads

€ 17

$ 20

€ 17 Sold For

Aug 20, 2020 Sold Date

Aug 29, 2018 Start Date

1 Number Of Bids

Switzerland Country Of Seller

eBay Sold at

save auction

Description

Allgemein

Artikel Name: Ballads
Genre: Jazz Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: Wax Time Titelanzahl: 9

Trackliste LP - 1

1. John Coltrane - Say It (Over and Over Again) 2. John Coltrane - I Wish I Knew 3. John Coltrane - You Don't Know What Love is 4. John Coltrane - What's New? 5. John Coltrane - Too Young To Go Steady 6. John Coltrane - It's Easy To Remember 7. John Coltrane - All or Nothing At All 8. John Coltrane - Nancy (With the Laughing Face) 9. John Coltrane - Greensleeves

Beschreibung

Throughout John Coltrane's discography there are a handful of decisive and controversial albums that split his listening camp into factions. Generally, these occur in his later-period works such as Om and Ascension, which push into some pretty heady blowing. As a contrast, Ballads is often criticized as too easy and as too much of a compromise between Coltrane and Impulse! (the two had just entered into the first year of label representation). Seen as an answer to critics who found his work complicated with too many notes and too thin a concept, Ballads has even been accused of being a record that Coltrane didn't want to make. These conspiracy theories (and there are more) really just get in the way of enjoying a perfectly fine album of Coltrane doing what he always did -- exploring new avenues and modes in an inexhaustible search for personal and artistic enlightenment. With Ballads he looks into the warmer side of things, a path he would take with both Johnny Hartman (on John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman) and with Duke Ellington (on Duke Ellington and John Coltrane). Here he lays out for McCoy Tyner mostly, and the results positively shimmer at times. He's not aggressive, and he's not outwardly. Instead he's introspective and at times even predictable, but that is precisely Ballads' draw. ~ Sam Samuelson

Sam Samuelson