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History of Jazz Time Line: John Coltrane 1965
- John Coltrane releases the landmark album A Love Supreme which is available on the MCA/Impulse! label. ALS contains many elements of Modal Jazz and includes some references to Free. With this album, John begins to gain a new audience of young Rock and Roll fans who begin to relate to this music (some forms of Rock are Modal - maybe by accident, maybe not). John becomes a public figure.
- In one mammoth swath of recording activity, Coltrane produces Ascension, Om, and Kulu Se Mama. These three large-group recordings feature high-energy collective free improvisaton. (They will later be collected for reissue as The Major Works Of John Coltrane on Impulse!)
- In November, Coltrane records Meditations, expanding his working quartet to a sextet. Pharoah Sanders offers a dramatic foreground voice on tenor saxophone, and Rashied Ali joins Elvin Jones on the drums. (Jones will subsequently leave the group after complaining he can not hear his own playing; Tyner will leave the next year.)
- Coltrane records Sun Ship with his classic quartet on August 26, 1965. This emotionally potent record represents some of his most free small-group improvisation to date.
- Coltrane does The John Coltrane Quartet Plays which is available on MCA/Impulse!
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