John Coltrane: Chasin’ The Trane: Copenhagen 1962 LP VRC Edition
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Chasin’ the Trane: Copenhagen 1962 captures John Coltrane’s Classic Quartet at a pivotal moment. With McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones, Coltrane stands between the lyrical grace that brought him wider acclaim and the exploratory fire that had divided critics and audiences the previous year.
The program reflects that tension beautifully: the hard-driving “Chasin’ the Trane”; the soprano-saxophone lift of “The Inch Worm”; the balladry of “I Want to Talk About You”; and a fiercely propelled “Impressions.” Across these performances, the quartet sounds both grounded and searching, transforming familiar forms into vehicles for discovery. Jones pushes with volcanic momentum, Garrison anchors with authority, Tyner brings harmonic depth, and Coltrane moves from tenderness to turbulence with absolute conviction.
More than a concert document, this album offers a vivid portrait of an artist pursuing clarity, beauty and freedom in real time — testing the limits of melody, rhythm and expression while still reaching directly toward his listeners. It is Coltrane in balance and in motion, caught onstage at one of the defining thresholds of his extraordinary journey.
Side 1
1. Chasin’ the Trane
(John Coltrane)
2. The Inch Worm
(Frank Loesser)
Side 2
1. I Want to Talk About You
(Billy Eckstine)
2. Impressions
(John Coltrane)
John Coltrane — tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
McCoy Tyner — piano
Jimmy Garrison — bass
Elvin Jones — drums
Recorded November 22, 1962 at the Falconer Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark.
* Mastered from analog sources
* Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Record Technology, Inc. (RTI)
* Numbered Tip on Gatefold Jacket
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