Description
Offered for sale is a Japanese pressing of Selflessness by John Coltrane, including the original obi.
The album’s full title is Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things, though it simply lists My Favorite Things on the label.
About this copy: This copy of Selflessness is a 1973 pressing on the Impulse label of an album that was originally released in 1969.
The cover is VG+, with slight edge and corner wear and slight foxing on the inside. The obi is VG+ with a couple of tiny tears; the “hojyuhyo,” or reorder tag, is still attached.
The insert is M-.
The disc is M-, with a few spindle marks on the labels. There is a single very faint inaudible scuff on side one.
A nice copy of a scarce John Coltrane LP.
Background: Released in 1969, Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things was an album that consisted of three tracks. Two were recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963, and the third, the title track, was recorded in the studio in 1965.
Allmusic.com gave Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things a four star review:
Released in 1965, Selflessness presents long-form pieces, likewise from two very distinct and separate eras of Coltrane’s development. The album’s first two-thirds was recorded at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival and consists of an amazingly deft rendition of Coltrane’s take on the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic “My Favorite Things” as well as the glowingly affectionate “I Want to Talk About You.” …Fast forwarding two years to 1965, the 14-plus-minute extended atmospherics of “Selflessness” find Coltrane ramping up to the free-form spiritual style that he would work in for the short remainder of his life. …Though the rapid changes in Coltrane’s playing between 1963 and 1965 are thoroughly documented on other albums, taken as a whole, the contrast on Selflessness is striking.
| Country of origin: | Japan |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Impulse |
| Catalog Number: |
IMP-88104 |
| Year of Release: | 1973 |
| Format: | Stereo |
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