Revival (Live At Pookie's Pub)

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Elvin Jones will always be known for the way he reconceptualized time itself in John Coltrane’s classic ’60s quartet with McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrison. One might reasonably assume he launched his solo career after leaving Coltrane, but in fact Jones was recording as a leader by the early ’60s—even 1958 if you count <i>Keepin’ Up With the Joneses</i>, his inaugural outing with brothers Thad and Hank Jone. From the mid-’50s onward, well before Coltrane, Elvin was a sideman with Art Farmer, Miles Davi, J.J. Johnson, Paul Chamber, Sonny Rollin, Pepper Adam, Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron, and more. <i>Revival: Live at Pookie’s Pub</i> was recorded in late July 1967, two weeks after Coltrane’s death. Even as Jones asserts his own identity and conception, there’s no denying Coltrane’s strong and lasting influence: in tenor saxophonist Joe Farrell we hear a direct descendant, one of the first in a post-Coltrane tenor lineage that includes George Coleman, David Liebman, Steve Grossman, Frank Foster, and other prominent Jones tenor sidemen. (Farrell contributes the modern uptempo blues “13 Avenue B.”) .

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