Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Both Directions at Once By John Coltrane on Impulse! Records.

A fair amount of Coltrane’s music has been released after the fact, but nothing that would seem, from a distance, quite so canonical as Both Directions At Once, which is 90 minutes worth of (mostly) previously unheard recordings made at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on March 6, 1963—the middle of the classic-quartet period. The Van Gelder studio, in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, can be considered part of the framing device. It was where the group did nearly all its studio work.

Artist: Jonh Coltrane

Title: Both Directions at Once

1. Untitled Original 11383

2. Nature Boy

3. Untitled Original 11386

4. Vilia

5. Impressions

6. Slow Blues

7. One Up, One Down

Musicians:

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone

McCoy Tyner – piano

Jimmy Garrison – double bass

Art Davis – double bass

Elvin Jones – drums