John Coltrane Pharoah Sanders "Ascension" Bits

JUST John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders' solos from Ascension: Editions 1 and 2. I clipped the audio. It goes Coltrane, Sanders, Coltrane, Sanders. Get the record for the whole experience. That's Elvin Jones on drums, Mccoy Tyner piano, Jimmy Garrison, bass, and a bunch more guys I cut out since I can never listen to that whole record in one sitting.

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Music

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• john
• coltrane
• pharoah
• sanders
• saxophone
• jazz
• avant-garde
• free

[finulanu]

Ah, yes, Ascension... fantastic album. I love all the emotion that gets poured into that. I actually have stayed up for hours trying to interpret just what Coltrane was trying to communicate. You either love or hate Coltrane's free stuff. Me, I love it.

[opinioninflicting]

@finulanu These guys were possibly exponentially better than the abstract expressionists. "Experimental" painters had gimmicks, these motherfuckers had a LANGUAGE.

[BennyGaberMusic]

Coltrane was mad, nuts, off the wall. But shit pharoah sanders was an Avant garde genius.

[BennyGaberMusic]

2:11 7:00

[mjazzguitar]

McCoy Tyner left after Coltrane went atonal.

[MerrillClark]

After 46 years, still amazing and still music I have yet to come to terms with.

thanks for posting.

[MerrillClark]

@skspartan1337

Ran across this lame comment by accident.

You certainly spread your idiocy around.

Remember when your video 'response' to 'Trombonist from Hell' was........

an anemic ZZ Top cover?

[999manman]

@opinioninflicting Neat postulation! Never thought of it that way!

[rhbxyz]

This is such an overwhelmingly powerful record. I had my first copy in 1977 at 17 years old. It was a brutal assault to my senses that, to me, made sense. I have the reissue with edition one and two. Edition two is my favorite. Elvin Jones is so big and broad with his drum sound. That studio in Englewood Cliffs NJ was a muther f&@ker! Natural reverb from hell!

[neopandorex]

@StevenCharlesJazz u have feelings

[StevenCharlesJazz]

This is great! I remember listening to it back in the early 70s, and it was so charged an experience, we used to joke about heating the house with it.... This was an amazing gathering of great, improvisational, spiritual, musical artists. The way the music would quiet down, the ensemble would play, then another soloist, felt like some sort of breathing glob of sound, that would simmer down, leaving one standing out at a time to blow, & blow they did!