John Coltrane Quartet
June, 24 1963 (4 pm matinee)
Showboat Philadelphia, PA
John Coltrane (ss, ts)
McCoy Tyner (p) (Tracks 4-7, 9, 11; Tyner arrived late)
Jimmy Garrison (b)
Roy Haynes (d)
1. Chasin' the Trane 10:52
2. It's Easy to Remember 6:43
3. Up 'gainst the Wall 5:40
4. The Inchworm 8:35
5. Impressions (incomplete) 13:27
6. I'm a weaver of dreams (beginning truncated) 7:50
7. Mr. P.C. 8:54
8. After the Rain (John Coltrane on piano) 5:43
9. Up'gainst the Wall (Ravi Coltrane source) 5:55
10. Ravi Coltrane interview 2:15
11. It's Easy to Remember (Ravi Coltrane source) 6:59
12. After the rain without hiss reduction 5:30
From "The John Coltrane Reference" (Porter et al.):
"Private recording by Alan Sukoenig, who recorded with a portable tape recorder at the club;
the tapes are currently in the collection of the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS), Rutgers, New Jersey.
These mono audience recordings are of listenable audio quality; they feature powerful Coltrane solos
(particularly his cadenca on "I'm a weaver of dreams") and deserve to be released through official channels."
The date usually assigned to this concert is June, 10 1963, but if the original taper is right, the real date is
June, 24 1963 (see accompanying file). Note, however, that this date is given in the John Coltrane Reference as a possible date for the Tête d'Art show in Montreal.
Lineage for tracks 1-7:
AUD > ??? > CD-R > EAC > FLAC > Remastering with Har-Bal 3.7 > minor repairs > pitch corrected by -85 cents (according to goody's advice for torrent #296919)
I did not touch tracks 9-12, these and track 8 are from torrent #296919
Artwork by dadoun
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About the remastering:
I had three sources to choose from:
1. torrent #184417 uploaded by u014945 in 2008
2. torrent #296919 uploaded by dsgtrane in 2010 (
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=296919)
(improved version of the previous one, speed corrected according to goody's advice and remastered)
3. A CD-R I received in a trade in the early 2000s. The sound is very similar to #184417, although a bit clearer.
I remastered the recordings with Har-Bal 3.7 which allows for pretty advanced equalization. However, this recording was not easy to remaster. Roy Haynes' drums are very dominant in the bass and cover everything else. I spent quite a few hours with this problem.
I started with the already remastered version #296919, but I was not able to tame the drums without damaging the sound of the saxophone.
I had better success with the CD-R version from the trade. Here I could attenuate the bass drum sound and emphasize the treble. With Har-Bal's approach you roughly match the audio spectrum to a reference recording while keeping its characteristics. I used the Birdland 1963 and Village Vanguard 1961 recordings as targets. Given the limited frequencies range of the present recording, this could of course give only a rough orientation for the sound characteristic.
After equalization, the sound of Trane's saxophone is much richer, with extended frequency range. Roy Haynes' cymbals are clearly audible now, while Jimmy Garrisons bass still is almost completely buried. I hope that I've squeezed out every last bit of sound that was on the tape. These are remarkable performances, quite adventurous.
