condition (record/cover): NM / EX

Insert and obi included.

European concert material from the classic quartet years, long a staple of serious Coltrane shelves via the Affinity label - the imprint that kept so much crucial live material in circulation through the seventies and eighties when the official channels offered nothing. John Coltrane live and unfiltered: the extended forms, the risk-taking, the sheer physical stamina that made the touring quartet a legend among musicians. Records like this are how generations of listeners first learned that the studio albums were only half the story, and the calmer half at that. Japanese pressing of a collectors' standby. The title says it: this is a field of study.