LIVE at the Village Vanguard (Acoustic Sounds Series)

Description

Live at the Village Vanguard (Impulse! AS-10), was Coltranes first official live album. Coltrane is joined here on two tunes by Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet, plus McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums, and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison alternating on bass. Garrisons presence on this album makes this the first recording by what came to be known as Coltranes Classic Quartet.

Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York, November 2 & 3, 1961.

Verves Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from the original analog tapes mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QPR. The series is supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, and releases are presented in deluxe gatefold tip-on packaging.

John Coltrane (tenor sax, soprano sax);
McCoy Tyner (piano)
Eric Dolphy (bass clarinet)
Elvin Jones (drums)
Reggie Workman, Jimmy Garrison (bass)