Ascension (John Coltrane album)

Ascension
In a black-and-white photo, Coltrane sits on a stool facing right, wearing a three-piece suit and holding his saxophone between his legs. To the right, the word "stereo" appears in the upper corner in black, with "Ascension" written in multiple colors beneath it, followed by "John Coltrane" in black below that.
Studio album by
John Coltrane
ReleasedFebruary 1966[1]
RecordedJune 28, 1965
StudioVan Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
GenreFree jazz, avant-garde jazz
Length40:49 (Edition II)
38:30 (Edition I)
79:19 (CD release)
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
John Coltrane chronology
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
(1965) 		Ascension
(1966) 		New Thing at Newport
(1966)

Ascension is a jazz album by John Coltrane recorded in June 1965 and released in 1966. It is considered a watershed in Coltrane's work, with the albums recorded before it being more conventional in structure and the albums recorded after it being looser, free jazz inspired works. In addition, it signaled Coltrane's interest in moving away from the quartet format. AllMusic called it "the single recording that placed John Coltrane firmly into the avant-garde".[2]

  1. ^ "New Album Releases". Billboard. Vol. 78, no. 6. 1968-02-05. p. 40. ISSN 0006-2510.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).