Recorded during a pivotal session on June 16, 1965 (just months after A Love Supreme ), Living Space is the bridge between Coltrane’s spiritual modal jazz and his avant-garde "free jazz" explosion.
: Modern remasters often utilize "brickwalling" (artificially boosting the volume level), which squashes the dynamic range. The 1998 digital master retains the natural dynamics between Elvin Jones' thunderous drumming and Tyner’s shimmering piano chords. john coltrane living space 1998 eacflac new
Recorded in June 1965, Living Space captures the quartet—featuring , Jimmy Garrison , and Elvin Jones —at a crossroads. They were moving away from the structured modal jazz of A Love Supreme and toward the avant-garde "New Thing" that would define Coltrane’s final years. Recorded during a pivotal session on June 16,