![]() ![]() None of this would have been possible without the staggering input of Jones and the two bassists, Garrison and Workman (Workman eventually left the band, exhausted by the physical demands of playing so long and so hard). He rarely solos for any length of time but seems to scatter a whole range of ideas and suggestions to Coltrane, who responds with renewed vigour in his pursuit of his own personal demons and goals. ![]() Dolphy, by contrast, seems often to be watching from a distance, approaching the band from oblique, almost playful angles. He drives the rhythm hard, pacing Elvin Jones every inch of the way and essaying singular odysseys into the new improvisatory trails he is discovering for himself. Coltrane’s own tenor style was balanced nicely between the swashbuckling approach of the later Atlantic studio dates and the more intense, ferocious storms of notes and contrastingly tender ballad essays of the years ahead. What comes across to an overwhelming degree is what a powerhouse group this was, working its determined way through its new-minted repertoire. 1997 John Coltrane The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings ![]()
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