John Coltrane
Kulu Se Mama
Impulse! (US) 1967
AS-9106 (LP) Orange and Black label. VAN GELDER stamped. Coated gatefold sleeve. w/company’s inner sleeve.
MAT : AS-9106-A LW VAN GELDER / AS-9106-B LW VAN GELDER
sleeve : EX-(wear on corner, light dirts.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise.)
A 1966 album by the undisputed jazz giant John Coltrane, marking his dramatic evolution from “sheets of sound” to spiritual free jazz. The title track on Side A features Juno Lewis’s vocals and African percussion, alongside Pharoah Sanders’s searing, cry-like blowing. It stands as one of Coltrane’s most overtly ethnic works, and can also be seen as a starting point for the musical direction Sanders would later pursue. B1 presents a feverishly spiritual duo of Coltrane on tenor and soprano saxophones with Elvin Jones on drums. B2 is an exceptionally beautiful performance by the classic quartet—McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), and Jones (ds)—expressing Coltrane’s sense of enlightenment and transcendence. A monumental, historic masterpiece. This is a 1967 U.S. repress.
A1: Kulu Se Mama
B1: Vigil
B2: Welcome