Bahia
A collection of 1958 sessions capturing Coltrane's transition from hard bop to his legendary 'sheets of sound' style. Warm, lyrical, and technically dazzling.
May 1965 · Destination Moon (3)
A collection of 1958 sessions capturing Coltrane's transition from hard bop to his legendary 'sheets of sound' style. Warm, lyrical, and technically dazzling.
May 1965 · Destination Moon (3)
Bahia represents a fascinating temporal paradox in the jazz canon. Though released in 1965 to capitalize on John Coltrane's burgeoning superstardom at Impulse! Records, the music itself is a pure distillation of his 1958 output at Rudy Van Gelder's studio. It captures a titan in the midst of a metamorphosis. You can hear the technical restlessness of his 'sheets of sound' period on tracks like 'Goldsboro Express,' where the notes seem to cascade in vertical stacks, yet this is balanced by some of the most sensitive ballad work of his early career.
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