John Coltrane A Love Supreme Live In Seattle 2 LP 1st Press Pharoah Sanders Mint Archival Sleeves Booklet

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Music is absolutely fantastic, recording quality not great 

Issued in gatefold jacket with a 10x10" 12 page booklet.

A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle is a live album by American saxophonist John Coltrane, released on October 22, 2021, through Impulse! Records.^[1] It was recorded on October 2, 1965, at the Seattle jazz club The Penthouse, by saxophonist Joe Brazil. The tapes were found five years after Brazil's death in October 2008 by the saxophonist Steve Griggs. It is one of only two recorded live performances of Coltrane's 1965 album A Love Supreme, the other being a July 1965 recording from the Jazz à Juan jazz festival in Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France, which was released in 2002 as part of the deluxe edition of A Love Supreme.

I think if you are a diehard aficionado of the interpretations recorded by John Coltrane, you will be very intrigued by this recording. It is not a studio recording by any means, in that the acoustics, placement of the mics, mixing of the instruments for emphasis is nonexistent. This recording is a raw, single source, unadulterated ( at least the original magnetic tape, not sure about the subsequent vinyl pressing) impression of a live, warts-and-all, Coltrane session. It is obvious that the mic was not placed to record the sound of the saxophone, therefore IT is not isolated or well defined; in fact, it sometimes barely surfaces above the over enthusiastic beats of the drums and cymbals, yet, when it does, one can hear and picture in one’s mind John Coltrane in his “zone”. THAT is what this recording offers to the Coltrane connoisseur … This recording, beyond whatever manufacturing imperfections of the vinyl or packaging may exist, is truly an experience…. Definitely not geared to the general Jazz listening public. For them, the studio recording of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” would Suffice…

On review aggregator Metacritic, the album has a score of 92 out of 100 from seven critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". A review in Relix calls this recording "a 75-minute journey through free-jazz heaven