Kulu Sé Mama is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane. Recorded during 1965, it was released in January 1967 as Impulse!, and was the last album released during Coltrane’s lifetime.
The tracks on Kulu Sé Mama were pieced together from three different recording sessions in 1965. The ballad “Welcome” was recorded by Coltrane’s “classic quartet” on June 10 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in a session which also produced “Last Blues” (released in 1998 on Living Space) and “Untitled 90314” (released in 1978 on Feelin’ Good and in 1998 on Living Space) as well as “Transition” and “Suite” (released in 1970 on Transition). “Welcome” was also reissued on the 1993 CD release of Transition. Coltrane explained that “Welcome” “is that feeling you have when you finally do reach an awareness, an understanding which you have earned through struggle. It is a feeling of peace. A welcome feeling of peace.”
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Released: January 1967
Recorded: June & October, 1965
Record Label: Impulse! Records
Location Recorded: Rudy Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Producer: Bob Thiele
Album Length (original LP): 34 min / 15 sec
Album Length (CD reissue): 69 min / 33 sec
John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
Pharoah Sanders — tenor saxophone, percussion (tracks 1, 4)
McCoy Tyner — piano (tracks 1, 3-6)
Jimmy Garrison — double bass (tracks 1, 3-6)
Donald Rafael Garrett — clarinet,[nb 1] double bass, percussion (tracks 1, 4)
Frank Butler —drums, vocals (tracks 1, 4)
Elvin Jones — drums
Juno Lewis — vocals, percussion, conch shell, hand drums (tracks 1, 4)
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