Hollywood Reporter
In a surprising development, saxophone trailblazer John Coltrane accounted for two of the top three jazz albums last week, 38 years after his death.
The two-CD Impulse! set One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note entered at No. 3 on Billboard's top jazz albums chart for the week of Oct. 29. Sitting at No. 2 was Blue Note's recently released album by the Thelonious Monk Quartet with Coltrane, At Carnegie Hall.
The Half Note album bowed with sales of 3,500 units (and sold another 2,400 in its second week), while the Carnegie Hall package has moved 44,000 to date. The latter title recently racked up an amazing 11-day run at No. 1 on Amazon.com's album bestseller list.
Both collections were hitherto unreleased officially. The Impulse! package -- a steaming 1965 live set at New York's Half Note club with his classic '60s quartet of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones -- was much bootlegged among Trane aficionados; in the early '90s, Coltrane's son Ravi unearthed a pristine tape made for the musician by DJ Alan Grant. That tape is the source material for the present CD release.
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