HOLY SHIT! Lost Impulse! era John Coltrane tapes discovered.

also in re: to the wes montgomery stuff posted many years ago:
John Coltrane Session 61-09-26 to 61-10-01:

Date: 26 September – 01 October 1961.

Place: San Francisco Jazz Workshop, CA.

Ensemble: John Coltrane Sextet: John Coltrane soprano sax, tenor sax, Eric Dolphy as bass clarinet, flute, McCoy Tyner piano, Wes Montgomery gtr, Reggie Workman bass, Elvin Jones drums,

Recording: Private audience tape.

Recording Engineer:

Alternative Issues:

Recent Available Issue:

1. Unknown set list (?:??) (Unissued.)

from here: http://www.kyushu-ns.ac.jp/~allan/Documents/JC_S_60-64.HTML

sooo maybe someday?

Wow. That'd be mind-blowing.

Still holding out for the 1966 "Titans Of Tenor" show (the Ayler brothers and Carlos Ward joined Trane & Pharoah) and the private recording of Trane messing around with a Varitone that supposedly exists.

are there examples of other dudes playing the varitone? don't know if i've heard what it sounds like.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gNUZoaRlL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

(not saxophone, but still)

wait, ok, here we go:
http://s.ecrater.com/stores/118695/4ae9dc2046770_118695n.jpg

haha, those covers are great. the new thing! check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ym0ndTmsk4
Recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ Sept. 23, 1968

Personnel:
Sonny Stitt - Tenor Sax/Varitone
Don Patterson - Hammond B-3 Organ
Billy Butler - Guitar
Billy James - Drums

* The Varitone was an electric saxophone/devise
developed by H&A Selmer Inc., in 1965. In this 1968 recording Sonny Stitt makes use of the Varitone. It enabled a player to produce, among other effects, not merely his own sound, but the same sound an octave higher or lower. This "Octavizer" effect can be heard most clearly from 3:10 to 3:20.

tbh i can't really hear all that much diff in that song.

Wish I had sound at work...if I recall correctly, though, the effect is much more pronounced on the Terry record (as it should be, or the Varitone people would be pretty pissed).