JOHN COLTRANE - IMPRESSIONS (180g IMPORT LP)

John Coltrane Impressions on 180g Import LP from Speakers Corner

Released on the Impulse label, Impressions is John Coltrane's seventh album, which brings together recordings made between 1961 and 1963. The two live numbers "India" and "Impressions," recorded during "evenings in hell" (as Rudy Van Gelder called the smoke-filled Village Vanguard), are the high points on the LP.

Although he only had a mixing console and a tape recorder placed on two tables next to the stage, Van Gelder managed to make full-bodied, intensive recordings of the quintet. Eric Dolphy plays the bass clarinet in "India" and the alto saxophone in "Impressions"; the result is a new sound coloring, which demands that Coltrane perform with even greater expression. The ballad "After The Rain" has Roy Haynes on drums and is one of the unmistakable hymn-like solo excursions that became a Coltrane trademark during his middle period.

John Coltrane Impressions Track Listing:

1.   India 
2.   Up 'Gainst the Wall 
3.   Impressions 
4.   After the Rain