John Coltrane Quartet - Ballads (1962) {2007 Japan MiniLP Remaster}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 193 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 76 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 104 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2007 Impulse! / Victor Japan | ICCI-9001
Jazz / Post Bop / Saxophone
| “ | 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. | ” |