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John Coltrane, Interstellar Space
Audio CD
Disk ID: 276344
Disk length: 54m 12s (6 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1967
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Mars | 10:47 |
| 2. Leo | 10:59 |
| 3. Venus | 8:30 |
| 4. Jupiter Variation | 6:49 |
| 5. Jupiter | 5:25 |
| 6. Saturn | 11:36 |
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Review
John Coltrane's last recordings have a concentrated intensity and a pointed focus that give them the authority of a final testament. On Interstellar Space, recorded in February 1967 just a few months before his death, Coltrane reduced the idea of the group to its absolute minimum, a duo with drummer Rashied Ali. Without the fixed harmonic frame of reference provided by piano or bass, Coltrane takes each of his brief themes and submits it to extended testing--repeating, contracting, and expanding phrases until they melt into a new inspiration. These are performances of extraordinary technical achievement. Coltrane ranges over the tenor with a vibrato so tight it sounds like it might contort the horn, exploring incremental shifts in pitch and tone and bending notes from one register to another. But it's a virtuosity that may well go unnoticed amid the sheer passion of his work and the unknown goal toward which every improvisation moves. It's visionary music, filled with expressive necessity and the full tumult of life, embarking on journeys that are as apt to begin in serenity as end there. Rashied Ali matches Coltrane here as well as Elvin Jones had earlier in the decade, using continuous rolls and cymbal details to create a polyrhythmic backdrop that's filled with subtle, responsive shifts in accents. It's clearly all the support that Coltrane required. --Stuart Broomer
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 6, Disk length: 54m 11s (-1m 59s)
Tracks: 6, Disk length: 54m 11s (-1m 59s)
Tracks: 6, Disk length: 54m 17s (+0m 5s)
Tracks: 6, Disk length: 56m 44s (+2m 32s)
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