Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up

Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up is a 2005 double CD compilation of two previously unreleased 1965 Friday radio broadcasts – March 26 and May 7 – at the Half Note Club in New York City, featuring John Coltrane with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones.

This article is about a jazz album recorded by John Coltrane. For for other jazz albums recorded at the Half Note Club, see Half note (disambiguation).
Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up
Live album by
John Coltrane
ReleasedOctober 11, 2005
RecordedMarch 26 and May 7, 1965
GenreJazz
LabelImpulse!
Catalog No. 0602498621431
OCLC 62192165

History

The recordings were made by the radio station WABC-FM, in 1965, for a Friday radio show called "Portraits in Jazz" with Alan Grant (né Abraham Grochowsky; 1919–2012). The 2005 release was produced by Ravi Coltrane, who also, with Ashley Kahn, wrote the liner notes.

Critical reception

In his review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau gave the album an "A-" and said that, although it is overpriced and underrecorded to some degree, its selling point is the title track, which features the longest Coltrane solo ever recorded.[1] Allmusic's Thom Jurek gave it four stars and wrote that, despite some audio fades, the album has exceptional sound and is of "historical importance".[2]

Track listing

Original CD release Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up (Impulse!).

Disc 1
  1. "Introduction and Announcements" Alan Grant, WABC FM radio broadcast host – 1:36
  2. "One Down, One Up" (John Coltrane) – 27:39, recorded March 26, 1965
  3. "Announcement" Alan Grant – 0:51
  4. "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria) – 12:44, recorded March 26, 1965
Disc 2
  1. "Introduction and Announcements" Alan Grant – 0:43
  2. "Song of Praise" (Coltrane) – 19:38, recorded May 7, 1965
  3. "Announcements" Alan Grant – 0:43
  4. "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 22:37, recorded May 7, 1965

Personnel

References
  1. Christgau, Robert (January 10, 2006). "Consumer Guide: Extraordinary Machines". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  2. Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up at AllMusic
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