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About Dear Old Stockholm
Product description This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1993 GRP/Impulse release. Catalog GRD-120. There is a hole punch through the UPC. Amazon.com This CD pairs two unusual Coltrane sessions made when was absent from the saxophonist's quartet. His replacement on both occasions was the estimable . A superb drummer who had worked regularly in the preceding years with , , and , Haynes brought his own distinctive touch to the quartet's chemistry, an almost lacy dance around the beat and a lighter touch than Jones's powerful polyrhythms. The 1963 session produced "After the Rain," one of Coltrane's most majestic invocations, and "Dear Old Stockholm," the folk tune first recorded by . Here it receives an extended exploration of its minor mode, capped by a beautiful Coltrane cadenza. The 1965 session finds Coltrane in one of his most tumultuous periods, bringing singular intensity and convoluted invention to "After the Crescent" and "One Down, One Up," and meditative depth to "Dear Lord." -- Stuart Broomer
