John Coltrane - Ascension - 180g

John Coltrane
Ascension 
Impulse AS 95 - re-issue 180g LP in thick gatefold jacket.

Trane is joined by Pharoah Sanders, Freddie Hubbard and four other horn players for an explosion of fiery solos and free improvisation on this famous 1965 session. Recorded with three tenors (Trane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp), two altos (Marion Brown, John Tchicai), two trumpet players (Freddie Hubbard, Dewey Johnson), two bassists (Art Davis, Jimmy Garrison), the lone McCoy Tyner on piano, and Elvin Jones on the drums, this large group is both relentless and soulful simultaneously. Coltrane biographer Eric Nisenson wrote that the album "signaled Coltrane's full embrace of the New Thing and its players", and that, with the album, "he finally became a full-fledged member of the free jazz avant-garde, with no turning back." In a review for DownBeat, Bill Mathieu called Ascension "possibly the most powerful human sound ever recorded"

     Side One 
Ascension Part One 
     Side Two 
Ascension Part Two

NEW, SEALED 180g LP set in thick gatefold jacket - printed in the Czech Republic.
(there is no indication whether this is Edition I or Edition II - not sure which you'll get)