The title of this album fits perfectly. “Transition”, recorded in 1965 and released in 1970, acts as a neat perforation mark between John Coltrane's classic quartet and the cosmic explorations that would follow until his passing in 1967.
Recorded seven months after the standard-setting “A Love Supreme”, Transition's first half bears much in common with that groundbreaking set. Spiritually reaching and burningly intense, the quartet is playing at full steam, but still shy of the total free exploration that would follow mere months later on records like “Sun Ship” and the mystical atonal darkness that came in the fall of that same year with “Om”. All of the best parts of humanity are represented in this music. There is love, pain, epiphany, joy, sorrow, seeking, risk-taking, introspection.
''Transition’” is beyond jazz, beyond category - it is a music of awakening, a glorious window on the soul.


John Coltrane

Transition

Recorded in 1965, released in 1970




CD / 1993 / Remastered / 320Kbps


Tracklist:

1.  Transition  

2.  Welcome  

3.  Suite:

a) Prayer and Meditation: Day

b) Peace After

c)Prayer and Meditation: Evening

d) Affirmation

e) Prayer and Meditation: 4 A.M.

4.  Vigil  


Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on May 26 and June 10, 1965.


Personnel:

John Coltrane - tenor saxophone

McCoy Tyner - piano

Jimmy Garrison - double bass

Elvin Jones – drums


John Coltrane
Transition
Recorded in 1965, released in 1970