New Thing at Newport

New Thing at Newport
Live album by
ReleasedFebruary 1966[1]
RecordedJuly 2, 1965
GenreAvant-garde jazz
Free jazz
Hard bop
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
John Coltrane chronology
Ascension
(1966)
New Thing at Newport
(1966)
The Avant-Garde
(1966)
Archie Shepp chronology
On This Night
(1965)
New Thing at Newport
(1966)
Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
DownBeat
(Original Lp release)
[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

New Thing at Newport is a 1965 live album featuring two separate sets from that year's Newport Jazz Festival by tenor saxophonists John Coltrane and Archie Shepp. It was recorded four days after the recording session for Coltrane's album Ascension, on which Shepp appeared, and is one of several albums documenting the end stages of Coltrane's "classic quartet," which would begin to break up by the end of that year with the departure of McCoy Tyner.[5]

The Newport 1965 performance of "My Favorite Things" was also included in the 1978 release The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. 1: Feelin' Good. "One Down One Up" and "My Favorite Things" were both included in the 2007 compilation My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport.

  1. ^ AllAboutJazz.com - "New Thing At Newport, recorded in July 1965 and released in February 1966, is..."
  2. ^ Down Beat: April 21, 1966 Vol. 33, No. 8
  3. ^ New Thing at Newport at AllMusic
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1289. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Ratliff, Ben (2007). Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 103.