Afro Blue Impressions is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane recorded live in 1963 and released on the Pablo label in 1977 as a double LP. The album was re-released in 2013 under the title Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered and Expanded). This re-release won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes. Personnel: John Coltrane — tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone McCoy Tyner — piano Jimmy Garrison — double bass Elvin Jones — drums Read more on Last.fm.
John William Coltrane (Hamlet, North Carolina, September 23, 1926 – Huntington, New York, July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
American jazz great John Coltrane emerged in the 1950s, playing tenor and soprano sax with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. A leader of "hard bop", in the 1960s he led his own groups and changed the face of jazz with experimentation and improvisation, his later recordings reflecting his belief that music was a form of spiritual expression. Read more on Last.fm
