JOHN COLTRANE w/McCOY TYNER BALLADS BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL '63 IMPULSE STEREO LP

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    JOHN COLTRANE with McCOY TYNER, JIMMY GARRISON AND ELVIN JONES - BALLADS - ORIGINAL 1962 IMPULSE RECORDS STEREO LP A(S)-32

 Record itself is in VG+/M- condition in normal light swipes or scratches that I noticed displayed, under very bright light though I did notice some fine swipes, but please note records are eye of the beholder and if for any reason you are not satisfied you may return

cover is very nice there was a light marker in the upper Left corner you can see that may come off with wiping as it is a glossy cover

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL ORANGE AND BLACK IMPULSE LABEL.

·       VERY RARE ORIGINAL STEREO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN MONO

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       ORIGINAL LAMINATED COVER

·       BEAUTIFUL, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1A/-1B'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

·       THE RECORD HAS A 'BELL SOUND' STAMP IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) AREA, WHICH IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED A PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST PRESSING.

(?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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Throughout John Coltrane's discography there are a handful of decisive and controversial albums that split his listening camp into factions. Generally, these occur in his later-period works such as Om and Ascension, which push into some pretty heady blowing. As a contrast, Ballads is often criticized as too easy and as too much of a compromise between Coltrane and Impulse! (the two had just entered into the first year of label representation). Seen as an answer to critics who found his work complicated with too many notes and too thin a concept, Ballads has even been accused of being a record that Coltrane didn't want to make. These conspiracy theories (and there are more) really just get in the way of enjoying a perfectly fine album of Coltrane doing what he always did -- exploring new avenues and modes in an inexhaustible search for personal and artistic enlightenment. With Ballads he looks into the warmer side of things, a path he would take with both Johnny Hartman (on John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman) and with Duke Ellington (on Duke Ellington and John Coltrane). Here he lays out for McCoy Tyner mostly, and the results positively shimmer at times. He's not aggressive, and he's not outwardly. Instead he's introspective and at times even predictable, but that is precisely Ballads' draw.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY SAM SAMUELSON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  )