The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2

The Africa/Brass Sessions, Vol. 2
Compilation album by John Coltrane
Released 1974
Recorded May 23 and June 4, 1961
Genre Jazz
Length 33:27
Label Impulse!
Producer Creed Taylor
John Coltrane chronology
Live in Japan
(1973)
The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2
(1974)
Interstellar Space
(1974)

The Africa/Brass Sessions, Vol. 2 is a posthumous compilation album by American jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, released in 1974 by Impulse Records. It compiles outtakes from the same 1961 sessions that produced his Africa/Brass album. "Song of the Underground Railroad" and "Greensleeves" were recorded on May 23, while "Africa" was recorded on June 4. On October 10, 1995, Impulse incorporated the tracks issued here into a two-disc set entitled The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions.

Background

After a successful series of albums for Atlantic Records, Coltrane signed to the developing, more jazz-oriented Impulse! Records. He assembled a 17-piece orchestra and started to record a series of sessions called Africa/Brass with musicians such as trumpeters Booker Little and Freddie Hubbard, trombonist Julian Priester, bassists Paul Chambers and Reggie Workman, reed player Eric Dolphy, pianist McCoy Tyner, and drummer Elvin Jones. The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2 compiled music from the second installment of the sessions in 1961.[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
The Village VoiceA[4]

In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote that he "gave up listening" to the rest of Coltrane's posthumous albums but still listens to The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2 "all the time".[4] In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Lindsay Planer praised Coltrane's command of his orchestra and his own playing: "The amazing virtuosity in Coltrane's solos had begun to show signs of the future direction his later avant-garde sides would take."[1]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Song of the Underground Railroad"  traditional6:44
2."Greensleeves"  traditional10:53

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Africa"  John Coltrane16:08

Personnel

Musicians

Production

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2 at AllMusic
  2. Larkin, Colin (2011). "John Coltrane". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0857125958.
  3. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 46. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (September 12, 1974). "Consumer Guide (48)". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved November 24, 2013.


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