On March 6 1963, John Coltrane and his Classic Quartet — McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones — recorded an entire studio album at Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey. This fabled session will finally be released on June 29 as Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album. Hear one of its previo...
On March 6 1963, John Coltrane and his Classic Quartet — McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones — recorded an entire studio album at Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey. This fabled session will finally be released on June 29 as Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.
Hear one of its previously unheard tracks, “Untitled Original 11383”, below:
Although the master tapes were lost, Coltrane left a reference tape of the sessions with his wife Naima, from which Both Directions At Once is sourced.
It features two completely unknown and never-before-heard originals, “Untitled Original 11383” and “Untitled Original 11386,” both played on soprano sax. “One Up, One Down” – released previously only on a bootleg recording from Birdland – is heard as a studio recording for the first and only time. “Impressions,” one of Coltrane’s most famous compositions, is played here in a piano-less trio.
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This studio session also yielded Coltrane’s first recording of “Nature Boy,” which he would record again very differently in 1965.
Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album will be released via Impulse! in standard and 2xCD or 2xLP deluxe editions, as well as on streaming platforms. The second disc of the deluxe edition features a number of alternative takes from the same sessions. Peruse the full tracklistings below:
Standard Edition:
1. Untitled Original 11383 (5:41)
2. Nature Boy (3:24)
3. Untitled Original 11386 (8:43)
4. Vilia (5:32)
5. Impressions (4:36)
6. Slow Blues (11:28)
7. One Up, One Down (8:01)
Deluxe Edition:
Disc one
1. Untitled Original 11383 (Take 1) (5:41)
2. Nature Boy (3:24)
3. Untitled Original 11386 (Take 1) (8:43)
4. Vilia (Take 3) (5:32)
5. Impressions (Take 3) (4:36)
6. Slow Blues (11:28)
7. One Up, One Down (Take 1) (8:01)
Disc two
1. Vilia (Take 5) (4:37)
2. Impressions (Take 1) (4:06)
3. Impressions (Take 2) (4:37)
4. Impressions (Take 4) (3:40)
5. Untitled Original 11386 (Take 2) (8:41)
6. Untitled Original 11386 (Take 5) (8:23)
7. One Up, One Down (Take 6) (7:17)
Read much more about John Coltrane and the recording of Both Directions At Once in the next issue of Uncut, on sale June 14.
