- jazz, avant-garde jazz
- 42 min
- 5 tracks
- Verve
Sun Ship is a posthumously released free jazz album by tenor saxophonist John Coltrane recorded on August 26, 1965. Along with First Meditations, recorded a week later, it was one of the last recording dates for Coltrane's "Classic Quartet" with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones.
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Character
Grave, character-led, earnest and spare.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz4/4 ★
- The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Sun Ship6:15
- 2Dearly Beloved6:28
- 3Amen8:17
- 4Attaining11:25
- 5Ascent10:04
5 tracks, 42 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- John Coltrane
- Label
- Verve
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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