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- Both sides of this copy have excellent sound for Coltrane’s brilliant sixth studio album, earning solid Double Plus (A++) grades
- This pressing captures the classic Coltrane sound that Tom Dowd and Phil Iehle achieved in the studio in 1961, with plenty of the Tubey Magic that makes a vintage jazz album like this one such a special listening experience
- It’s the rare pressing that isn’t mediocre if not outright awful – it took us a long time to find the right stampers for this one
- It’s trial and error, no more, no less, a process that worked for plenty of other hard-to-find-good-sound-for Coltrane albums too
- 4 1/2 stars: “The first album to hit the shelves after Giant Steps… While not the groundbreaker that Giant Steps was, Coltrane Jazz was a good consolidation of his gains as he prepared to launch into his peak years of the 1960s.”
- This is a Must Own album from 1961 that belongs in any jazz-loving audiophile’s collection
For us audiophiles both the sound and the music here are wonderful. If you’re looking to demonstrate just how good 1961 All Tube Analog sound can be, this killer copy will do the trick.
This pressing is super spacious, sweet and positively dripping with ambience. Talk about Tubey Magic, the liquidity of the sound here is positively uncanny. This is vintage analog at its best, so full-bodied and relaxed you’ll wonder how it ever came to be that anyone seriously contemplated trying to improve it.