New Thing at Newport is a 1965 live album featuring two separate sets from that year’s Newport Jazz Festival by tenor saxophonists John Coltrane and Archie Shepp. It was recorded four days after the recording session for Coltrane’s album Ascension, on which Shepp appeared, and is one of several albums documenting the end stages of Coltrane’s “classic quartet,” which would begin to break up by the end of that year with the departure of McCoy Tyner.
The Newport 1965 performance of “My Favorite Things” was also included in the 1978 release The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. 1: Feelin’ Good. “One Down One Up” and “My Favorite Things” were both included in the 2007 compilation My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport…read more.
Album Data
Released: 1966
Recorded: June 2nd, 1965
Record Label: Impulse! Records
Location Recorded: Newport Jazz Festival
Producer: Bob Thiele
Album Length: 59 min / 41 sec
The John Coltrane Quartet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone on “One Down One Up”, soprano saxophone on “My Favorite Things”
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums
The Archie Shepp Quartet
Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone, (recitation on “Scag”)
Bobby Hutcherson – vibraphone
Barre Phillips – double bass
Joe Chambers – drums
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