John Coltrane - Offering: Live at Temple University 1966 / 2014 torrent

“Offering: Live at Temple University”, recorded in Philadelphia on Armistice Day in November 1966, is a flat-out fascinating document. The novelty of this set is the way that Trane sort of sings, or vocalizes, or makes noises and beats his chest in the midst of “Leo” and “My Favorite Things.”

The band, (with the exception of Sonny Johnson subbing for bassist Jimmy Garrison) is the familiar 1966 unit comprised of Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, and Rashied Ali. Additionally, saxophonists Arnold Joyner and Steve Knoblauch join the group, as do percussionists Umar Ali, Algie DeWitt and Robert Kenyatta.

'Trane’ is in absolute peak form—pushing his ideas and the vocabulary of the sax ever further out, with minimalism-influenced fragments repeated and spun like mantras, church music melted into lava-flows of raw sound, and episodes where he simply hollers hoarse, wordless chants.

However familiar we might be with Coltrane’s work, there is always room for more of his wonderful music. “Offering: Live at Temple University” is exhausting and uplifting, and documents a massive slice of emotional, raw and sometimes frenzied jazz - a new opportunity to hear the master reaching into his personal vortex and showering sparks into our darkness.


John Coltrane

Offering: Live at Temple University

1966


2CDs / 2014 / Remastered / 320Kbps


Tracklist / Disc 1:

1. Naima

2. Crescent


Tracklist / Disc 2:

1. Leo

2. Offering

3. My Favorite Things


Recorded at Mitten Hall, Temple University in Philadelphia, PA on November 11th, 1966


Personnel:

John Coltrane - soprano & tenor saxophones, flute & vocals

Pharoah Sanders - tenor saxophone & piccolo

Alice Coltrane - piano

Sonny Johnson - bass

Rashied Ali - drums

with

Steve Knoblauch, Arnold Joyner - alto saxophone

Umar Ali, Algie DeWitt, Robert Kenyatta – percussion


John Coltrane / Offering: Live at Temple University / 1966