John Coltrane POLLstumous Releases

Yeah, I wish they wouldn't have done the re-group the albums by date/personnel thing...makes things confusing. In the poll I guess I'll choose "The Other Village Vanguard Tapes." I love both versions of Spiritual on that.

yeah, holy shit, "spiritual" is so immense and heavy. i know it from the complete vanguard box set thing. if that was on here i'd have to vote for it.

I saw that Complete Village Vanguard set recently for $20 and stupidly passed on it. Should've known better, but at the time, I thought to myself "how many versions of these songs does one need?" Having subsequently heard the three different versions of My Favorite Things, I now know the answer is "all of them". I've fallen into a rather deep well here!

Easy to do with Coltrane:).

I have that set in my truck right now for driving-around listening, really loving it. Esp Dolphy.

yeah it is worth $20! xp

Poorly worded...I realize there are no renditions of My Favorite Things on the various Village Vanguard comps. There *is* one on the Live At The Village Vanguard Again album, as well as Selflessness. Both are awesome, and I know there are more out there (ie, Live in Japan). I also wouldn't want to do without *any* of the renditions of "I Want To Talk About You" that I've heard. So yeah, I kinda want it all.

And the funny thing is I haven't picked up *any* of the Prestige records yet! I'll get there soon enough, I'm sure.

those three box sets of the prestige stuff are good, obv a different thing from his 60s stuff. weird to read about a lot of those sessions -- i guess prestige would just round up a lot of players, drive them out to the studio and say, ok, make a record, dudes. which makes for some great music, but also some very pedestrian music.

I've said before that I prefer Prestige-era Coltrane to Atlantic-era Coltrane.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

not familiar with every one of these, but Africa Brass 2 is KILLER. expression was the first JC album i ever bought and it's very good, too, fwiw.
i think i voted innerstellar space

Huh. I voted for Sun Ship but really didn't think it would win.

I love the opening track of that record so much.

Oddly I just bought Infinity yesterday, never listened before tonight, and I like it. Slightly odd to hear some of these familiar Coltrane tracks in this setting but the strings are v. cool IMO.

That opening track on Sun Ship is one of the pivotal moments in the existence of that quartet, but rarely seems to be recognized as such.

As with all versions of 'Leo', it's the standout track on Infinity.
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it's weird that there are, like, a lot of songs on 'stellar regions', i have a hard time keeping in mind that they are individual, distinct compositions.

Is it just my ears or is Coltrane playing alto on one of those "Stellar Regions" tracks? (can't remember which one at the moment, sorry)

I didn't realize that there was a Complete Sun Ship Session released in 2013 until just now

It was ILM that alerted ME back in April!

"Peace On Earth" live in Japan. Twice! Heavenly.