John Coltrane – The Final Tour: Copenhagen, March 24, 1960 (LP Vinyl) artist-primus fresh off his electrifying 1955

fresh off his electrifying 1955 Newport Jazz Festival performance that had reminded the world exactly where he stood

a full 20 years later

even mundane

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John Coltrane – The Final Tour: Copenhagen, March 24, 1960 (LP Vinyl) artist-primus fresh off his electrifying 1955By March 1960, John Coltrane was already deep into preparations for his own landmark quartet and had recorded "Giant Steps" just months earlier. Catching him in this transitional moment alongside Miles Davis, still burning through the modal innovations of "Kind of Blue," makes these Copenhagen recordings a rare document of two genuinely revolutionary musical minds at a shared crossroads, each about to reshape jazz in entirely different directions. The