JOHN COLTRANE ballads IMPULSE MONO LP A-32 original NM-
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Description
ARTIST: John Coltrane Quartet
TITLE: Ballads LP
LABEL: Impulse! (MONO A-32)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA
COVER CONDITION: Lovely VG++/NM- (light laminate peel at the opening and inside of gatefold has a small signature by the former owner- not a big deal. The spine is lovely!)
VINYL CONDITION: NM- (light scuffs only. It will be very hard to find an upgrade on this)
TRACKS:
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DETAILS: Lovely original Impulse mono copy. This copy has "Bell Sound" in the matrix, but no RVG. Still, a gorgeous pressing which sounds amazing.
"Throughout John Coltrane's discography there are a handful of decisive and controversial albums that split his listening camp into factions. Generally, these occur in his later-period works such as Om and Ascension, which push into some pretty heady blowing. As a contrast, Ballads is often criticized as too easy and as too much of a compromise between Coltrane and Impulse! (the two had just entered into the first year of label representation). Seen as an answer to critics who found his work complicated with too many notes and too thin a concept, Ballads has even been accused of being a record that Coltrane didn't want to make. These conspiracy theories (and there are more) really just get in the way of enjoying a perfectly fine album of Coltrane doing what he always did — exploring new avenues and modes in an inexhaustible search for personal and artistic enlightenment. With Ballads he looks into the warmer side of things, a path he would take with both Johnny Hartman (on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman) and with Duke Ellington (on Duke Ellington and John Coltrane). Here he lays out for McCoy Tyner mostly, and the results positively shimmer at times. He's not aggressive, and he's not outwardly. Instead he's introspective and at times even predictable, but that is precisely Ballads' draw." -Sam Samuelson, allmusic guide
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