Hand-Numbered, Limited Edition - Only 2000 Copies!
180g Vinyl Deluxe 2LP! Pressed at RTI & Mastered by Bernie Grundman!
2015 Grammy Award Winner for Best Album Notes!
This treasured discovery was recorded at Mitten Hall - Temple University, Philadelphia, PA on November 11th, 1966, six weeks after his 40th birthday and nine months before his untimely death and is a must have for Coltrane fans, jazz collectors & audiophiles.
Offering: Live At Temple University documents a legendary concert by John Coltrane at Temple University in his hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1966, six weeks after his fortieth birthday and nine months before his untimely death. "Offering" incorporates a look that is contiguous with the graphic identity of Impulse! Records, Coltranes exclusive label from 1961 until the end of his life. This is the first officially sanctioned release of an undiscovered, complete Coltrane performance since 2005. It captures Coltrane in exemplary form, navigating the language he had developed during the last phase of his musical path with passion and pellucid logic. Operating at equivalent levels of invention and energy are three members of his working quintet of one years standing his wife, Alice Coltrane, on piano; Pharoah Sanders on reeds and flute; and Rashied Ali on drums.
Offering is emblematic of the efflorescent energies and radical ideas that Coltrane himself had much to do with bringing forth during the seven years after 1960, when he left the employ of Miles Davis to pursue his vision as a leader. There are versions of Coltranes 1960 hits Naima and My Favorite Things, a transformational reworking of the 1964 ballad Crescent, a spirit-raising rendering of Leo, which he had recorded on several previous occasions during 1966, and the hymnal Offering, which he would record on a February 15, 1967 studio session that Impulse! would release during the 90s as Spiritual Offering.
On Offering, Resonance Records achieves the highest possible audio quality, using direct transfers of original master reels from a location recording by Temples WRTI-FM, remastered at 96kHz/24 bit, that were tracked down by Coltrane scholar Yasuhiro Fujioka.
The immense life-force that animates the proceedings on this November 1966 evening in Philadelphia belies the declining state of Coltranes health. It is still difficult to grasp and to accept that he was firmly in the grip of the liver cancer that would still his voice on July 17, 1967. As co-producer Ashley Kahn states in his liner notes, Coltrane was pointing the way forward for generations of players to come, pushing the music to exhilarating, spiritual heights that caught most by surprise. In 1966, that wasnt what jazz performances were about not yet.
Features:
Hand-Numbered, Limited Edition
Only 2000 Copies
180g Vinyl
Double LP
Pressed at RTI
Mastered by Bernie Grundman
Gatefold by Stoughton Press
Vibrant 4-panel insert with liner notes by Ashley Kahn
Special collector postcards of never before published photographs by photographer Frank Kofsky
Musicians:
John Coltrane, soprano & tenor saxophones, flute & vocals
Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone & piccolo
Alice Coltrane, piano
Sonny Johnson, bass
Rashied Ali, drums
Additional musicians include:
Steve Knoblauch, alto saxophone
Arnold Joyner, alto saxophone
Umar Ali, percussion
Algie DeWitt, percussion
Robert Kenyatta, percussion
Selections:
LP 1 - Side A:
1. Naima
LP 1 - Side B:
1. Crescent
LP 2 - Side C:
1. Leo
LP 2 - Side D:
1. Offering
2. My Favorite Things
Recorded at Mitten Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 1966
180g Vinyl Deluxe 2LP! Pressed at RTI & Mastered by Bernie Grundman!
2015 Grammy Award Winner for Best Album Notes!
This treasured discovery was recorded at Mitten Hall - Temple University, Philadelphia, PA on November 11th, 1966, six weeks after his 40th birthday and nine months before his untimely death and is a must have for Coltrane fans, jazz collectors & audiophiles.
Offering: Live At Temple University documents a legendary concert by John Coltrane at Temple University in his hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1966, six weeks after his fortieth birthday and nine months before his untimely death. "Offering" incorporates a look that is contiguous with the graphic identity of Impulse! Records, Coltranes exclusive label from 1961 until the end of his life. This is the first officially sanctioned release of an undiscovered, complete Coltrane performance since 2005. It captures Coltrane in exemplary form, navigating the language he had developed during the last phase of his musical path with passion and pellucid logic. Operating at equivalent levels of invention and energy are three members of his working quintet of one years standing his wife, Alice Coltrane, on piano; Pharoah Sanders on reeds and flute; and Rashied Ali on drums.
Offering is emblematic of the efflorescent energies and radical ideas that Coltrane himself had much to do with bringing forth during the seven years after 1960, when he left the employ of Miles Davis to pursue his vision as a leader. There are versions of Coltranes 1960 hits Naima and My Favorite Things, a transformational reworking of the 1964 ballad Crescent, a spirit-raising rendering of Leo, which he had recorded on several previous occasions during 1966, and the hymnal Offering, which he would record on a February 15, 1967 studio session that Impulse! would release during the 90s as Spiritual Offering.
On Offering, Resonance Records achieves the highest possible audio quality, using direct transfers of original master reels from a location recording by Temples WRTI-FM, remastered at 96kHz/24 bit, that were tracked down by Coltrane scholar Yasuhiro Fujioka.
The immense life-force that animates the proceedings on this November 1966 evening in Philadelphia belies the declining state of Coltranes health. It is still difficult to grasp and to accept that he was firmly in the grip of the liver cancer that would still his voice on July 17, 1967. As co-producer Ashley Kahn states in his liner notes, Coltrane was pointing the way forward for generations of players to come, pushing the music to exhilarating, spiritual heights that caught most by surprise. In 1966, that wasnt what jazz performances were about not yet.
Features:
Hand-Numbered, Limited Edition
Only 2000 Copies
180g Vinyl
Double LP
Pressed at RTI
Mastered by Bernie Grundman
Gatefold by Stoughton Press
Vibrant 4-panel insert with liner notes by Ashley Kahn
Special collector postcards of never before published photographs by photographer Frank Kofsky
Musicians:
John Coltrane, soprano & tenor saxophones, flute & vocals
Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone & piccolo
Alice Coltrane, piano
Sonny Johnson, bass
Rashied Ali, drums
Additional musicians include:
Steve Knoblauch, alto saxophone
Arnold Joyner, alto saxophone
Umar Ali, percussion
Algie DeWitt, percussion
Robert Kenyatta, percussion
Selections:
LP 1 - Side A:
1. Naima
LP 1 - Side B:
1. Crescent
LP 2 - Side C:
1. Leo
LP 2 - Side D:
1. Offering
2. My Favorite Things
Recorded at Mitten Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 1966
