condition (records/cover): VG+ (some surface noise throughout) / VG+ (ring and edges wear)
Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeve.
September 1965 at the Penthouse club: John Coltrane with Pharoah Sanders and multi-instrumentalist Donald Rafael Garrett added to the classic quartet, stretching pieces past the half-hour mark in front of a Seattle audience that had no idea it was witnessing history. This is the expanded band in its rawest documented form - exploratory, sometimes chaotic, always searching, with long percussion and bass passages, split reeds, and Trane pushing into territory the studio records only sketch. The Seattle period sits at the exact hinge of the late transformation, and this double LP is its primary document. Not the polite Coltrane. The essential one. US Impulse! 2LP.
