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About this product
Product Identifiers
ProducerBob Thiele
Record LabelImpulse!
UPC0602517920248
eBay Product ID (ePID)18050132678
Product Key Features
Era1960s
Run Time4759 Sec
Release Year2009
FormatCD
InstrumentSaxophone
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenreJazz
TypeAlbum
StyleJazz Instrument, Spiritual, Free Jazz
ArtistJohn Coltrane
Release TitleAscension [Editions I and II]
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Guest ArtistMccoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Elvin Jones, Marion Brown
DistributionUniversal Distribution
Number of Tracks2
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
BassArt Davis, Jimmy Garrison
EngineerRudy Van Gelder
Reviews"...The most important record Coltrane ever made. It marked such a violent severance with his past that many critics at the time thought he had lost his mind...", Ranked #8 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "ASCENSION remains a uniquely draining, frighteningly human and intense experience.", 5 stars out of 5 - "...There is no more radical free-jazz statement than 1965's ASCENSION....this album roars and soars beyond its milieu to become one for the ages and is Coltrane's most difficult statement for jazz traditionalists to follow...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Radical....Consisting of a single rambling and largely cacophonous 40-mintue free jazz piece..."