condition (record/cover): EX- (minimal surface noise) / VG+ (minimal wear and light long crease on back)
Gatefold sleeve.
December 1964. Four movements, one prayer, and the most influential jazz album of its era - possibly of any era. John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones reaching for something beyond music and, by every account including the evidence of your own ears, getting there. From the opening gong and the four-note bass motif to the wordless psalm of the finale, this is a complete spiritual architecture in under thirty-five minutes. It has sold in the millions and lost none of its mystery - the rare masterpiece that mass familiarity cannot wear down. US Impulse! pressing. The center of the collection, whoever's collection it is.
