CD: TRANSITION JOHN COLTRANE 24BIT/96KHZ MASTERED JAPAN REPLICA RARE OBI GATEFOLD CD

- THIS TITLE NEVER HAD A STORE PRICING STICKER ATTACHED TO THE PLASTIC WRAP AND COMPLETE WITH VERIFYING COLLECTORS ORIGINAL RELEASE 1ST EDITION 2001 OBI 24 BIT 96KHZ MASTERED STRIP ON THE LEFT SIDE UNDERNEATH THE PLATIC WRAP PROVING THAT THIS CD IS THE ORIGINAL ISSUE OF THIS REPLICA JACKET EDITION AND THAT THIS ISSUE WAS REMASTERED AND THAT OBI STRIP PLUS THE SEALED PLASTIC WRAP IS PROTECTING CD INSIDE. IF YOU DON'T SEE THIS OBI STRIP YOU ARE NOT PURCHASING AN ORIGINAL ISSUE OF THIS RELEASE.

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WHAT IS A JAPAN "REPLICA/MINI-LP-SLEEVE" CD?

Have you ever lamented the loss of one of the 20th Century's great art forms, the 12" vinyl LP jacket? Then "mini-LP-sleeve" CD's may be for you.

Mini-sleeve CDs are manufactured in Japan under license. The disc is packaged inside a 135MM X 135MM cardboard precision-miniature replica of the original classic vinyl-LP album. Also, anything contained in the original LP, such as gatefolds, booklets, lyric sheets, posters, printed LP sleeves, stickers, embosses, special LP cover paper/inks/textures and/or die cuts, are precisely replicated and included. An English-language lyric sheet is always included, even if the original LP did not have printed lyrics.

Then, there's the sonic quality: Mini-sleeves have dedicated remastering (20-Bit, 24-Bit, DSD, K2/K2HD, and/or HDCD), and can often be superior to the audio on the same title anywhere else in the world. There also may be bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere.

Each Japan mini-sleeve has an "obi" ("oh-bee"), a removable Japan-language promotional strip. The obi lists the Japan street date of that particular release, the catalog number, the mastering info, and often the original album's release date. Bonus tracks are only listed on the obi, maintaining the integrity of the original LP artwork. The obi's are collectable, and should not be discarded.

All mini-sleeve releases are tremendously limited editions mainly pressed on future orders only and once released immediately out of print. This fact along with other latter features we've mentioned make these titles rare collectibles that sell in the collectors markets for $100's of dollars apiece

TRANSITION - REPLICA GATEFOLD JACKET Detailed item info Album Features Artist: John Coltrane Format: CD Release Year: 2001 Record Label: Impul Genre: Avant-Garde, Downtown, Jazz, Jazz Instrument Track Listing 1. Transition 2. Dear Lord 3. Suite Details Contributing Artists: Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner Distributor: MSI Music Distribution Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album Notes Japanese limited edition release featuring an LP style slipcase cover. 24bit 96kHz digitally remastered. Part of the 'Impulse Best 50' collection. Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison (acoustic bass); Elvin Jones (drums).Producers: Bob Thiele, John Coltrane.Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on June 10 & 16, 1965. Includes original release liner notes and the liner notes of KULU SE MAMA, both by itally remastered by Robert Stoughton (MCA Music Media Studios).Japanese edition.CD comes in Jpn LP Sleeve.Recorded in June of 1965 and released posthumously in 1970, Transition acts as a neat perforation mark between Coltrane's classic quartet and the cosmic explorations that would follow until Trane's passing in 1967. Recorded seven months after the standard-setting A Love Supreme, Transition's first half bears much in common with that groundbreaking set. Spiritually reaching and burningly intense, the quartet is playing at full steam, but still shy of the total free exploration that would follow mere months later on records like Sun Ship and the mystical atonal darkness that came in the fall of that same year with Om. McCoy Tyner's gloriously roaming piano chord clusters add depth and counterpoint to Coltrane's ferocious lyrical runs on the five-part suite that makes up the album's second half. In particular on "Peace and After," Tyner matches Trane's range of expression. The angelically floating "Dear Lord," a meditative pause in the album's center, holds true to the straddling of the line between modes of thinking and playing that define Transition, not quite as staid as the balladry of Trane's earlier hard bop days, but nowhere near the lucid dreaming that followed. Only nearing the end of "Vigil" does the quartet hint at the fury of complete freedom it would achieve later in the year on Sun Ship, or even more, provide a precursory look at terrain Coltrane would explore in duets with drummer Rashied Ali on Interstellar Space in 1967. [The omission of "Dear Lord" on some issues is replaced with the similarly subtle "Welcome" and still other issues include bonus album closer "Vigil"] ~ Fred Thomas

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