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JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET/QUINTET
Newport 1961 [Goody Speed/Pitch-adjusted Remaster, 1CD]
“Music At Newport”. July 1, 1961. Very good mono soundboard.
Thanks to jimitrane and to goody for sharing the show at Dime.
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My thanks to a couple of you who downloaded the previous v.2 edition for catching what appeared to be some horrendous note smearing problems in the horns. I’m quite sorry there are now so many of those in circulation and I hope never to see that disastrous edition reseeded in the future, although I have no doubt of it being a distinct possibility. I’m very sorry indeed for the huge errors I unleashed upon the world. Again - my apologies to the masters. I didn’t ever intend to destroy their wonderful work! And my apologies to all of you.
This edition corrects all of that (he wrote, hoping not to have to retract any of this once again…)
If you haven’t already done so, please delete those old files you may still have on your drives immediately.
Special thanks to our generous art department ethiessen1 once again for updating another of his great contributions not only in the covers he so creatively puts together but for his assistance in gathering additional info to help make these shares so much better!
Yer PervFesser
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Original notes by jimitrane:
“This is my personal thank you for all the great shows I received from this site; also, an invitation for some of you to post something really rare this week. We all need to hear this. This is Trane’s holy grail missing Newport show from 1961. I recently located my master cassette that I transferred from a reel to reel master mono soundboard back in the late ’70s. I figured that I would give my Nakamichi a try on this recording and go straight into my Philips CDR with no EQ or messing. This recording has such an intimate feel. You can hear Trane tap in the count for “Impressions”. You can hear the squeak of Elvin’s hi-hat during Naima. Remember this is a recording from 1961. Trane adds Art Davis on ‘My Favorite Things’, bringing the number to two bassists on that tune - he hadn’t settled on Jimmy Garrison yet, but McCoy and Elvin are here. The announcer introduces the first song as “So What”, but Trane rips into “Impressions” instead. I’ve never traded this show but it’s time for everyone to hear it. It’s a shame there isn’t more.”
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#Dimeadozen comment #4494005 by StuHanson at 2011-01-12 21:06:30 GMT:
“This is great. Thank you for sharing! For the sake of accuracy though, there was no 1961 Newport Jazz Festival. Seriously. This Coltrane recording is from “Music At Newport,” an entirely different one-off event that happened in Newport that summer. Here’s a basic synopsis of what happened (from the Newport Jazz Festival wiki). You can also read about it in depth in George Wein’s highly recommended autobiography. - Stu
In 1960 boisterous spectators created a major disturbance, and the National Guard was called to the scene. Word that the disturbances had meant the end of the festival, following the Sunday afternoon blues presentation headlined by Muddy Waters, reached poet Langston Hughes, who was in a meeting on the festival grounds. Hughes wrote an impromptu lyric, “Goodbye Newport Blues,” that he brought to the Waters band onstage, announcing their likewise impromptu musical performance of the piece himself, before Waters pianist Otis Spann led the band and sang the Hughes poem.
Presentation of the proper Newport Jazz Festival was disallowed in 1961 due to the difficulty of the previous year’s festival. In its place, another festival billed as “Music at Newport” was produced by Sid Bernstein in cooperation with a group of Newport businessmen. That festival included a number of jazz musicians but was financially unsuccessful. Bernstein announced that he would not seek to return to Newport in 1962. The Newport Jazz Festival resumed at Freebody Park in 1962.”
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Lineage:
Reel to Reel Master /TEAC Reel to Reel Deck/Nakamichi CR2A/ Philips CR-765 / flac - dime >
Goody’s additional lineage 1/16/11: dBpoweramp (WAV) > Cool Edit Pro (Pitch Bender -50 cents) > Trader’s Little Helper (FLAC Level 8, ffp)
New updates 4/8/21: TLH (WAV) > iZotope RX 8 Advanced (Wow & Flutter repair; Phase repair) > Capstan (to further smooth out the sound) > Audition (Channels aligned; levels adjusted; dropouts repaired; noise repair; fade) > TLH (FLAC Level 8; Align sector boundaries; .ffp) > foobar2000 (tags)
Goody Speed/Pitch-adjusted Remaster v.3, via jimitrane
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Track 01. Introductions 1:26
Track 02. Impressions 6:20
Track 03. Naima 4:18
Track 04. My Favorite Things 16:26
29 mins
Lineup:
John Coltrane - tenor, soprano sax
McCoy Tyner - piano
Reggie Workman - bass
Art Davis - bass (add to ‘MFT’)
Elvin Jones - drums
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