- Olatunji Concert
Infobox Album
Name = The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
Type = Live album
Artist =John Coltrane
Released = 2001
Recorded =April 23 ,1967
Genre =Free jazz
Length = 63:38
Label =Impulse! Records
Producer = Bryan Koniarz
Reviews =Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kmz1z85a3yv2]Pitchfork Media 10/10 [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16262-the-olatunji-concert-the-last-live-recording link]The Olatunji Concert is the
Impulse! Records-released last live recording of saxophonistJohn Coltrane , recorded April 23, 1967 at the Olatunji Center of African Culture in New York and released posthumously on CD. The album consists of two songs, "Ogunde", which Coltrane also recorded for his final self-approved album, "Expression", and an especially free-form "My Favorite Things ", which Coltrane had performed live regularly since 1960. The recording was done for broadcast on MC Billy Taylor's local station,WLIB .On the recording, Coltrane performs intense and lengthy, if poorly recorded, solos. Sonically, the album is notable for its overwhelming din of multiple drummers.
Rumors of Coltrane being deathly ill and unable to stand during the gig are dispelled in Lewis Porter's "John Coltrane: His Life and Music".
Rashied Ali opines that Coltrane might have simply been tired that day. It was not until May - about a month after this show - that Coltrane began to complain of intense abdominal pain; he died two months after that, in July. It is important to note that the Olatunji Concert was not Coltrane's last show, but rather, his "second-last" - he would play one more on 7 May 1967 in Baltimore.Track listing
#Introduction - 0:35
#"Ogunde" - 28:25
#"My Favorite Things" - 34:38Personnel
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John Coltrane - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
*Pharoah Sanders - tenor saxophone
*Alice Coltrane - piano
*Jimmy Garrison - bass
*Rashied Ali - drums
*Algie DeWitt -Batá drum
*Jumma Santos - percussion (possibly)
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