John Coltrane - Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy team and itchy-footed songs about life

and itchy-footed songs about life in late '60s inner-city America

funny and often riotous riposte to the dreary mood of Austerity Britain

bouncing around and thru the melodies on a rhythmic sugar-high

that seek to tie together the bigness of the world and the smallness of the everyday with both subtlety and humility

John Coltrane - Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy team and itchy-footed songs about lifeIn August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Coltranes Classic Quartet was not as fully established as it would soon become and there was a meteoric fifth member of Coltranes group those nights visionary multi instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. Ninety minutes of never before heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library for the Performing