Live in Seattle is a live double album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, recorded in 1965 and released posthumously in 1971 on the Impulse! label. The original Double LP issue was expanded to 2 CDs for the reissue.
During September 14–26, 1965, the John Coltrane Quartet played an engagement at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. The saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, whose music Coltrane admired, and who had previously recorded with Coltrane on Ascension, went to hear the group and was invited to sit in. According to Sanders, “He told me then that he was thinking of changing the group and changing the music, to get different sounds. He asked me to play with him.” At the same time, the multi-instrumentalist Donald Garrett, who had played with Coltrane’s group in 1961 as a second bassist, was also asked to sit in. At the end of the two-week gig, both Sanders and Garrett were asked to join the band, and accompanied it to the next engagement, September 27 – October 2, at The Penthouse in Seattle…read more.
Album Data
Released: 1971
Recorded: September 30th, 1965
Record Label: Impulse! Records
Location Recorded: The Penthouse, Seattle Washington
Producer: Jan Kurtis
Album Length (original LP): 77 min / 36 sec
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