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約翰柯川/ 新月傳奇【 Verve-Acoustic Sounds留聲美學經典昇華系列 】滾石爵士評鑑4星至高評價/ AMG-4星半經典評價 (LP唱片) 

John Coltrane Quartet/ Crescent【new audiophile vinyl series- "Verve Acoustic Sounds"】(LP)

★【Verve留聲美學經典昇華系列-Verve -"Acoustic Sounds" Series】-爵士名廠Verve最新開發的頂級音質序列精品黑膠系列【Verve留聲美學經典昇華系列-"Verve Acoustic Sounds"】以Verve Music Group旗下的經典爵士廠牌- Verve, Impulse, Mercury/EmArcy, and Argo/Cadet為強大的基底，所有精挑的瑰藏均以珍貴原始母帶重新製作re-mastered，所有此系列產品以180克重磅黑膠於堪薩斯州知名的QRP原地壓製，並以全新行家典藏級包裝格式生產，所有此系列產品由錄音界大師Chad Kassem與其聲震全球的"Acoustic Sounds"錄音室背書監製...

★1964年，約翰．柯川雖然只灌錄了 "新月傳奇Crescent"和"崇高的愛A Love Supreme" 2張錄音室專輯，但是後來都被公認為爵士史上極重要的經典作品!!!...

★Utilizing the skills of the top mastering engineers and the unsurpassed production craft of Quality Record Pressings, the Acoustic Sounds series is mastered from the original analog tapes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged by Stoughton Printing Co. in high-quality gatefold sleeves with tip-on jackets. The releases are supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, the world’s largest source for audiophile recordings.

★The Acoustic Sounds series, a different storied label spanning Verve/UMe’s extraordinarily rich archive. To begin with, the series will largely focus on some of the most popular albums from the 1950s and 1960s in their unmatched catalogue

★Crescent is widely regarded as one of John Coltrane's finest albums, featuring the talents of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones. During 1964, John Coltrane spent the least amount of time in the recording studio of his entire career as a leader. It wasn't until April 27th that he, along with Tyner, Garrison and Jones went to the familiar surroundings of Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood Cliffs studio to record all the tracks that appear on Crescent. In a hint of things to come for the Classic Quartet, both Garrison and Jones are featured on extended solos on the album’s second side.

  1964年，約翰．柯川雖然只灌錄了 "新月傳奇Crescent"和"崇高的愛A Love Supreme" 2張錄音室專輯，但是後來都被公認為爵士史上極重要的經典作品!!!...而"新月傳奇Crescent"更是柯川極少數在專輯封標註著著他經典四重奏名號的一張氣氛安適悠然的音樂奇葩之作...

 為了灌錄這張專輯，柯川花了數個月的時間研究編曲，企圖讓自己心中沉思冥想的樂念能更加具且完整地呈現。5首情感豐富的樂曲，訴說著柯川對人ˋ事以及宇宙萬象探索的心得，而他所運用的音樂質素更涵蓋了田野叫喊、靈魂樂與即興藍調，聽過"Bessie’s Blues"、"Lonnie’s Lament"、"Crescent"之後，你或許也會同意"新月傳奇Crescent"是最令人產生懷舊感傷情緒的觸動巨作.....

  柯川真正建立一家之言當屬在1961年加盟Impulse! 唱片公司後，他以厚實的咆勃及精純咆勃功力為根柢，在反應社會現象的實驗性爵士樂之品牌精神下，從沈穩間逐漸昂揚，戮力自我實踐並不斷地向外延展，調式爵士及自由爵士成為其當時核心樂風，最終進而探索宗教與哲學之超脫蛻變，無論是鏗鏘有力的陳訴、顆粒分明的聲響或無明顯旋律的長篇幅演繹，都在在顯示他令人難以望其項背的不朽神采，也更加彰顯出其當代爵士精神導師的崇高地位；而他所領銜籌組的經典四重奏，各個均為可獨霸一方的好手，在其領軍下技巧展現及即興創意如臻顛峰，除可靜如處子勾勒出慢板抒情曲之柔情似水，亦可動如脫兔地打造出調式爵士之實驗性格，更可毫無忌憚地激盪出自由爵士之狂狷不羈，因此經典四重奏當時所錄製作品不僅質量兼備，同時為具劃時代名家風範，更被後代樂手奉為圭臬...