John coltrane quartet with eric dolphy

The music has raw vitality, high energy, new structures and a freshness of vision.

Impulse!

John Coltrane (soprano saxophone); Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, bass clarinet & flute); McCoy Tyner (piano); Reggie Workman (bass); Elvin Jones (drums)

Recorded Summer 1961

This is a crucial album.

1961 was an important, eventful year for Coltrane. He brought out the ‘My Favourite Things’ album.

Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader.

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Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy is a live album recorded in featuring jazz musicians John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy.

A scathing review of Coltrane's quintet with Dolphy, decrying an anarchistic course in their music that can but be termed anti-jazz.

John Coltrane Eric Dolphy McCoy Tyner Jimmy Garrison.

He started the quartet that would influence and define the 1960s. He left Atlantic and joined Impulse. He recorded the sessions at the Village Vanguard and with this quintet he toured Europe and ventured into Britain for concerts that would mystify and outrage.

Few were prepared for what they heard.

Critics in Downbeat expressed surprise at the vehemence and violence of the music, one called it ‘anti jazz’. ‘My Favourite Things’ album had not been released in the UK.  The last time that most people had heard Coltrane on record was the quite conventional work he had recorded