John Coltrane – Ascension (Vinyl LP, Impulse! Records) – Mint / Sealed

John Coltrane’s Ascension is one of the most groundbreaking recordings in the history of avant-garde jazz. Recorded in June 1965 and originally released in 1966, the album marked a decisive departure from Coltrane’s earlier quartet recordings towards the collective improvisation and expressive freedom of the emerging free jazz movement.

Featuring an extraordinary eleven-piece ensemble including Freddie Hubbard, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Marion Brown, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones, Ascension unfolds as an extended performance alternating between explosive collective passages and individual improvisations.

Radical, uncompromising and enormously influential, Ascension remains a landmark of spiritual and free jazz, capturing Coltrane at one of the most adventurous moments of his career.

Vinyl LP.

Mint and Sealed.