"A great introduction to free-jazz, it gives some credibility to free-jazz, since it has become the fodder for plenty of satire. This album will dispell those filthy predudices."
"This album is one of my absolutes, it displays Coltrane's moving from Miles Davis' quintet as something of a happy accident. 1957 was Coltrane's transitional year, and it shows here."
"One of the heavyweight Saxophonist's of the 50s, Gordon exhibits his talent for pure, lyric genuis in this album. Though another album to check is Go!, I was 50/50 which to list."
"Ron Carter left Davis' quintet to go solo, and here it proves Carter has something different to say. The album resonates with quiet meditative moments giving way to erratic funk-esque improvisations."
"This album best translates Coltrane's method, often called 'sheets of sound' whereby he will play multiple notes rather than individual notes, and after listening to the solo's again and again..."
"it all becomes clear ( a spliff helps), and the combinations of notes sounds more like orchestra's performing symphonies in inspired, seemigly arbitary bursts."
"Undoubtedly the most important collaboration in jazz, and another great example of Coltrane's innovations (inspired especially by Monk's musical pallette)."
"It has to be here, because it really is THE landmark jazz album, in that it really did curve the image of jazz among an un-jazzed popular culture. The first jazz album any one thinks of."
"In the film 'Round Midnight', featuring Dexter Gordon as the main character, Lester Young is mentioned as a true saxophone pioneer, much revered and much deserved."
"For a time Sonny Rollins quit gigging, instead he would wander along Brooklyn Bridge playing to himself and passers-by. And the end of this Buddha-eque period he achieved this album."
