Vendor: Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane
Type: Vinyl
Price: 30.00

Details

The Elements originally released in 1973 on Milestone arrived during a time of discovery for Joe Henderson, a time to set aside the post-bop instrumentation and repertoire he was identified with and branch out into other realms. What transpired is in a league all its own. Present in the four-part improvisation that makes up the album, "Fire", "Air", "Water" and "Earth" are elements of spiritual jazz-fusion and beyond - celestial, cosmic, and trance-inducing in nature.

Alice Coltrane’s contributions on harp and piano set the tone as she weaves sublime chordal textures through the layers of improvisation.  Assisting Henderson and Coltrane were a group of sympathetic explorers-- violin original Michael White, bass giant Charlie Haden, and the multifaceted percussionist Kenneth Nash. Latin American, Indian, and Native American strains enter the mix as Henderson applies the heat and mercurial invention of his more conventional work to these open-ended settings. While the music is enhanced with overdubbing in spots, the true magic of The Elements emanates from the musicians' collective genius at listening and responding to each other – a gift of extreme magnitude.   

Tracklist

Side A 
1. Fire
2. Air

Side B 
1. Water
2. Earth

Features

• First-ever 180-gram vinyl reissue
• Lacquers cut by Kevin Gray, Cohearent Audio
• Old-school style tip-on jacket

Vendor: John Coltrane
Type: Vinyl
Price: 25.98

Please note that this is the standard, OJC pressing of John Coltrane's Lush Life, not the sold-out Small Batch edition.

Assembled from two separate sessions at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1958, this 1963 release features performances from the later years of Coltrane's tenure at Prestige. Clocking in just under 40 minutes, it features performances by session players like Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb and more. Features Coltrane's renditions of compositions by Yip Harburg, Arthur Schwartz, Sammy Cahn and more.