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DAVID YEARSLEY celebrates the long-awaited issue of a mythic live recording featuring John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy
POSSESSED: John Coltrane [Impulse! Records/CC]

 

LIKE no other people before us, we live with the songs of the dead. These captured incantations of the vanished can be heard at their uncanniest in Evenings at the Village: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy.

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