Performance lendária de Coltrane gravada em 1966 na Temple University logo após o seu 40º aniversário e nove meses antes da sua morte prematura. Esta descoberta musical é um documento extraordinário a não perder pelos fans de Coltrane, coleccionadores de Jazz e audiófilos. Edição Deluxe limitada a 2000 unidades numeradas à mão masterizada por Bernie Grundman para vinil 180 gramas na RTI, USA.

• Edição Limitada
  
• Numerada à mão (apenas 2000 unidades)
• Vinil 180 Gramas Duplo LP
• Prensagem RTI em Vinil Virgem Audiófilo
• Masterizado por by Bernie Grundman
• Capa Gatefold pela Stoughton Press
• Novas notas de texto por Ashley Kahn num livrete de 4 páginas
• Postais especiais de coleccionador com fotos inéditas de Frank Kofsky

Offering: Live At Temple University documents a legendary concert by John Coltrane at Temple University in his hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1966, six weeks after his fortieth birthday and nine months before his untimely death.

Offering, available on September 23, 2014 in a deluxe format 2 LP Gatefold Cover, incorporates a look that is contiguous with the graphic identity of Impulse! Records, Coltrane’s exclusive label from 1961 until the end of his life. This is the first officially sanctioned release of an undiscovered, complete Coltrane performance since 2005. It captures Coltrane in exemplary form, navigating the language he had developed during the last phase of his musical path with passion and pellucid logic.

Operating at equivalent levels of invention and energy are three members of his working quintet of one year’s standing his wife, Alice Coltrane, on piano; Pharoah Sanders on reeds and flute; and Rashied Ali on drums.

Offering is emblematic of the efflorescent energies and radical ideas that Coltrane himself had much to do with bringing forth during the seven years after 1960, when he left the employ of Miles Davis to pursue his vision as a leader. There are versions of Coltrane’s 1960 hits “Naima” and “My Favorite Things,” a transformational reworking of the 1964 ballad “Crescent,” a spirit-raising rendering of “Leo,” which he had recorded on several previous occasions during 1966, and the hymnal “Offering,” which he would record on a February 15, 1967 studio session that Impulse! would release during the ‘90s as Spiritual Offering.

On Offering, Resonance Records achieves the highest possible audio quality, using direct transfers of original master reels from a location recording by Temple’s WRTI-FM, remastered at 96kHz/24 bit, that were tracked down by Coltrane scholar Yasuhiro Fujioka.

The immense life-force that animates the proceedings on this November 1966 evening in Philadelphia belies the declining state of Coltrane’s health. It is still difficult to grasp and to accept that he was firmly in the grip of the liver cancer that would still his voice on July 17, 1967. As co-producer Ashley Kahn states in his liner notes, “Coltrane was pointing the way forward for generations of players to come, pushing the music to exhilarating, spiritual heights that caught most by surprise. In 1966, that wasn’t what jazz performances were about —not yet.”

Gravado em 11 de Novembro, 1966
Mitten Hall, Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Músicos:
 
John Coltrane, saxofones soprano & tenor, flauta & vozes
Pharoah Sanders, saxofone tenor & piccolo
Alice Coltrane, piano
Sonny Johnson, contrabaixo
Rashied Ali, bateria
Steve Knoblauch & Arnold Joyner, saxofone alto
Umar Ali, Algie DeWitt, Robert Kenyatta, – percussão

Lista de Faixas:

LP 1 Lado A:
1. Naima

LP 1 Lado B:
1. Crescent

LP 2 Lado C:
1. Leo

LP 2 Lado D:
1. Offering
2. My Favorite Things

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