Blue World

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Arriving not long after <i>Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album</i>, <i>Blue World</i> adds another unreleased archival item to John Coltrane’s weighty catalog. The tenor master assembled in the summer of 1964 with his classic quartet (pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Elvin Jones) to record soundtrack material for Gilles Groulx’s film <i>Le chat dans le sac</i>, only some of which was actually put to use. And the tapes were promptly shelved and forgotten. It’s a smattering of material that doesn’t quite rise to the level of Coltrane’s Impulse! output of the period, but to be fair, it wasn’t intended to. Yet interesting details abound. Most notably, at Groulx’s request Coltrane revisited tunes from his time with Atlantic Record, including “Naima” from <i>Giant Steps</i> as well as “Like Sonny” and “Village Blues” from <i>Coltrane Jazz</i>. “Traneing In” dates back even further, to Coltrane’s Prestige era, but the tune receives an altogether different harmonic treatment with Tyner rather than Red Garland at the keyboard (Garrison’s unaccompanied bass intro might be the single best thing on the date). .

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