New - Coltrane, John With Eric Dolphy - Evenings At The Village Gate - 2xLP

Rediscovered Village Gate Performances by John Coltrane's 1961 Quintet In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group was recently discovered at the New York Public Library. The recordings were made by engineer Rich Alderson as part of a test of the Village Gate's then-new sound system. The tapes seemed to have been lost, were found, but then disappeared again into Library's vast sound archives.  Coltrane played his month-long Village Gate residency with a quintet featuring a revolving cast of musicians. The new album comprises 80 minutes of unheard music and provides a glimpse into the powerful but sadly all-too-short musical partnership between Coltrane and Eric Dolphy, who died three years later. This is the only recording of their vaunted Village Gate performances and features Coltrane staples such as "My Favorite Things," "Impressions," and "G