Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy

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For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. Alderson says that when he recorded Coltrane at the Gate it was not with a record release in mind. He simply wanted to test the speaker system he had recently installed at the club, and did so with just a single microphone hung over the stage. By contrast, the version here, as much to do with the drum-forward recording as anything, feels somehow more sluggish, Coltrane’s and Dolphy’s motivic Eastern patterns sounding disquieted and imprisoned, like two giant glittering insects trapped in a conservatory and only the duet between Jones and Tyler allowing any sense of escape.

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To be fair, it is easy to imagine that someone who had last heard Coltrane play "When Lights Are Low" as a member of Miles Davis' quintet (as on Davis' 1956 Prestige album Cookin') might have needed smelling salts on hearing his performance with Dolphy at the Gate. It is worth remembering, too, that Coltrane's Africa/Brass (1961), which featured Dolphy, had yet to be released when the Gate recordings were made. This meant that "Greensleeves" and, more to the point, the turbulent "Africa," were likely to be new to many people in the audience, as would be Dolphy himself to some of them. And some audience members may well have been at the club on the strength of Coltrane's current radio hit "My Favorite Things." But the vibe in the room is palpably onside. If the gatekeepers did not get it, it sounds like the paying customers did.

The new release features essays from two participants from those evenings, Workman and Alderson, and insightful pieces by historian Ashley Kahn and jazz luminaries Branford Marsalis and Lakecia Benjamin. John Coltrane (soprano saxophone); Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, bass clarinet & flute); McCoy Tyner (piano); Reggie Workman (bass); Elvin Jones (drums) Pearson, Chris (July 5, 2023). "John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy review—'lost' recording shows jazz greats at their most compelling". Album Review. The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved July 5, 2023. According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 91 out of 100 from four critic scores. [5]

Hobart, Mike (July 7, 2023). "John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy thrill in Evenings at the Village Gate— album review". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766 . Retrieved July 7, 2023.