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Interstellar Space

These four duets between John Coltrane and drummer Rashied Ali are Coltrane's final recordings (made five months before his death in 1967), and they are plainly astounding. What more exhilarating image can we have of the master than to envision him blowing flat-footed into the booming martial roar o...

1967 RS: Not Rated

Live In Seattle

1965

A Love Supreme (Deluxe Edition)

1964

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For most of the '50s, John Coltrane was merely a first-rate jazz saxophonist. (He recorded a mountain of albums during that time, which aren't included in the discography above.) On or about March 2, 1959, he abruptly became God, and that's where we pick up the story. Between Coltrane's first session for Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (taped that day) and his death from liver cancer at the age of 40 on...

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