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| 1. Ole |
| 2. Aisha |
| 3. Dahomey Dance |
| 4. To Her Ladyship |
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The album showcases the 18-minute title track, which is a superb, modal Coltrane composition which, for me, ranks with his very best extended recordings such as Out Of This World, Impressions, My Favourite Things, Afro Blue and Blue Train. The composition Ole is a superbly judged, crescendo-building masterwork, featuring some of Coltrane's most impressive soprano sax playing, but also great solos from Hubbard, Dolphy (with probably the best jazz flute I have heard) and Tyner, plus Messrs. Workman and Davis excelling themselves with some inventive 'bowing'. Ole is a composition I would have loved to have heard Miles Davis play with Coltrane - that would have been mindboggling! The album's other standout number is the McCoy Tyner composition Aisha (which is dedicated to Tyner's then wife), a beautifully heartfelt ballad featuring some beautiful tenor playing from Coltrane and a heavenly, measured solo from Hubbard. The other two tracks included are the African-flavoured Coltrane composition Dahomey Dance and the Billy Frazier tune To Her Ladyship - both are worthy numbers, but are not quite up there with Ole or Aisha.
This is another essential Coltrane album.
Reggie Workman (bass) stands out as his simultaneous bowing and plucking unearths the voodoo in even the most androgenous of specacled librarians. Elvin Jones (drums) ebbs and flows in his polyrhythmic orchestra while McCoy Tyner (piano) can be both tympany drum and sparkling water spring.
Freddie Hubbard is an epileptic snake, writhing and thrashing his limbless body around the open harmony and when Eric eats a banana... Eric Dolphy is a master of his 3 horns: alto, flute and bass clarinet, the lattter of which can be heard live with Coltrane at the village vanguard 1961 - listen to his solo on "Naima". John Coltrane, although outshadowed somewhat by his wife Alice and later their son Derek (only joking) plays with strength, vitality and a glossy coat.
To compare, listen to any of his quartet recordings (eg A Love Supreme, Ballads...) and then to larger groups. Afro Brass has a wonderful large brass group playing McCoy Tyner style harmony arranged by Eric Dolphy. Ascension (The Major Works of John Coltrane) is a very free but still musical recording with the regular quartet but also Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders (tenors) Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) and multiple bassists and percussionists. It is really what Ornette Coleman tried to do with Free Jazz but here you can really hear the musicians listening and responding to what is going on. Sing along if you know the words.
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