17.81337
$18.59
17.54879
$14.75
Record Collector (magazine) (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's an album that consolidates A LOVE SUPREME's spiritual mysticism and features some intensely probing and otherworldly improvisations."15.35519
$8.55
Record Collector (magazine) (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's an album that consolidates A LOVE SUPREME's spiritual mysticism and features some intensely probing and otherworldly improvisations."15.35519
$13.84
Q (10/95, p.137) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...a hard, unfaltering attack and furiously intense, extended improvisations that bordered on free-jazz. BALLADS was a timely reminder of the tenor saxophonist's matchless lyricism and exquisite tone..."Uncut (3/03, p.117) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This music sounds even fresher today than when it was recorded at the dawn of the '60s..."Down Beat (11/95, p.73) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...BALLADS...has always been about the celebration of pitch and melody. The band...hadn't played any of the tunes prior, but its proficiency leaned toward perfection."15.35519
$8.55
14.38392
$7.30
Q (1/96, p.146) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...a feverish, thrilling set right on the edge of what was then impossible..."JazzTimes (3/96, p.89) - "...While there are indications of the quartet's unraveling on LIVE IN SEATTLE, recorded a month later...they were breaking fertile ground on SUN SHIP..."13.2773
$10.53
12.38365
$19.39
Rolling Stone (5/18/95, pp.87-88) - 4.5 Stars - Excellent - "...Leading his incendiary '60s quartet, Coltrane wails with an inexhaustible, sometimes truly nightmarish passion....Passages of stark modal beauty detonate into ensemble blasts of dizzying tumult..."Q (3/95, p.116) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...this is a double set of epic improvisations recorded in a small Seattle club in late 1965....the results are nothing less than awesome..."Down Beat (5/95, p.41) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...This is an ensemble that starts at the brink, then rushes over it....Trane follows volcanic climax with gorgeous thematic reprise, summoning the sonic Eden that inspired a generation to make love to his late-period music..."11.65522
$9.95
JazzTimes (5/96, p.130) - "...the playing? Poignant, powerful....Blues is the lingua franca. Duke gives Trane plenty of running room, as Monk did, laying out his solo on `Take The Coltrane,' comping nimbly elsewhere. No bonus tracks, and none needed."11.14114
$9.38
Musician (12/93, p.92) - "...[Coltrane] stands tall in the teeth of the storm and crafts each note like a column in the Parthenon, with his cantorish intonation and the sanctified rise and fall of pitch which marks great preachers throughout the ages....EXPRESSION takes us to the mountain one last time...."11.06614
$12.56
Rolling Stone (No. 985, p.76) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...What makes this set such a godsend, nearly fifty years later, is that we hear this brief legendary partnership at its best in a concert-hall setting, in stunning-for-its-day fidelity...."Down Beat (p.65) - 5 stars out of 5 - "Coltrane takes the good bait, reeling off wave after wave of his harmonically stupendous lines, pushing himself harder than in any other contemporaneous situation."11.05604
$16.82
10.9957
$8.55
10.9957
$11.45
10.9957
$17.07
10.9957
$10.45
10.9957
$6.94
10.9957
$6.94
Q (9/93, p.97) - 3 Stars - Good - "...[TRANSITION] brings the graceful, prayer-like 'Welcome' and `Vigil' [from the KULE SU MAMA sessions]..."10.9957
$9.82
10.9957
$9.95
10.9957
$8.04
Q (9/93, p.97) - 3 Stars - Good - "...[TRANSITION] brings the graceful, prayer-like 'Welcome' and `Vigil' [from the KULE SU MAMA sessions]..."10.9957
$8.55
10.9957
$12.03
9.330164
$10.56
Q (10/95, p.136) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...The emphasis is...on the standard ballads repertoire, while Hartman's rich, intimate baritone in no way diminishes Coltrane's imagination and focus..."Down Beat (11/95, p.73) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...20-bit Super Mapping eradicates almost all the hiss, underscoring the analog warmth of this 1963 tete-a-tete of unfettered soul..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]his inspired collaboration with iconic saxophonist John Coltrane undoubtedly represents the pinnacle of Hartman's career."8.891297
$8.55
Q (10/95, p.136) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...The emphasis is...on the standard ballads repertoire, while Hartman's rich, intimate baritone in no way diminishes Coltrane's imagination and focus..."Down Beat (11/95, p.73) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...20-bit Super Mapping eradicates almost all the hiss, underscoring the analog warmth of this 1963 tete-a-tete of unfettered soul..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]his inspired collaboration with iconic saxophonist John Coltrane undoubtedly represents the pinnacle of Hartman's career."8.891297
$15.64
Q (6/93, p.117) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...On `One Up, One Down' he displays combative form on the fringes of free jazz but it is the ballads that still amaze with their beauty. The descriptive `After The Rain' is a powerful, understated and integrated performance..."Down Beat (6/93, p.44) - 4.5 Stars - Very Good Plus - "...The change of drummers apparently doesn't affect Coltrane at all. You can hardly go wrong by this stage of Coltrane's career...he had become a remarkably dependable improviser in terms of quality..."JazzTimes (5/93, p.62) - "...One need search no further than the superb cadenza Coltrane tags onto the title track to know that you've made a wise investment....The latter three tracks...were captured with Trane peering over the edge of the precipice, not long before the seminal free improvisations of the ASCENSION session..."Musician (6/93, p.92) - "...generates a unified portrait of Coltrane in the spring of '63 and '65...and does it swing...you get a good idea about how inside Trane's outside really was..."8.867
$13.84
8.851364
$8.55
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.120) - Ranked #102 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[H]e played with a heated melodic enthusiasm - flying clusters of notes - that declared new possibilities for jazz improvisation..."Down Beat (1960) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...[Coltrane] has managed to combine all the swing of Pres with the virility of Hawkins and added to it a highly individual, personal sound as well as a complex and logical, and therefore fascinating, mind...tag this LP as one of the important ones..."JazzTimes (11/94, p.88) - "...essential for all serious jazz collections....The culmination of 'Trane's sheets-of-sound period...GIANT STEPS brought the chordal improvising of bebop to its breaking point..."8.837651
$7.32
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.120) - Ranked #102 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[H]e played with a heated melodic enthusiasm - flying clusters of notes - that declared new possibilities for jazz improvisation..."Down Beat (1960) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...[Coltrane] has managed to combine all the swing of Pres with the virility of Hawkins and added to it a highly individual, personal sound as well as a complex and logical, and therefore fascinating, mind...tag this LP as one of the important ones..."JazzTimes (11/94, p.88) - "...essential for all serious jazz collections....The culmination of 'Trane's sheets-of-sound period...GIANT STEPS brought the chordal improvising of bebop to its breaking point..."8.837651
$7.04
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.120) - Ranked #102 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[H]e played with a heated melodic enthusiasm - flying clusters of notes - that declared new possibilities for jazz improvisation..."Down Beat (1960) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...[Coltrane] has managed to combine all the swing of Pres with the virility of Hawkins and added to it a highly individual, personal sound as well as a complex and logical, and therefore fascinating, mind...tag this LP as one of the important ones..."JazzTimes (11/94, p.88) - "...essential for all serious jazz collections....The culmination of 'Trane's sheets-of-sound period...GIANT STEPS brought the chordal improvising of bebop to its breaking point..."8.837651
$15.18
8.796563
$8.42
8.796563
$15.23
8.796563
$7.96
8.796563
$9.53
Down Beat - 4 Stars - "...destined to be a major influence..."8.796563
$10.16
8.796563
$10.29
8.796563
$14.96
8.796563
$15.21
8.796563
$9.96
8.796563
$10.48
Record Collector (magazine) (p.83) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's a superb set whose standout track is 'Russian Lullaby'..."8.796563
$12.50
8.796563
$16.28
8.796563
$5.78
8.796563
$12.12
8.796563
$7.90
8.796563
$7.29
Goldmine - Highly Recommended - "..remarkable music..."8.796563
$9.47
