Interstellar Space

The free jazz counter-project to Gustav Holst's Planets, Interstellar Space is another good opportunity to marvel at John Coltranes ingenious technical abilities of playing the saxophone - and the congenial drums performing by Rashied Ali. In addition it's remarkable that the album was published seven years after and recorded in the same year of John Coltranes death 1967. Therefore it's more a '67 than a '74 album.

Appropriately, this thing is pretty otherworldly. Spellbinding free jazz by one of the all time greats.

Review #001 — Interstellar Space, John Coltrane

This album broke me.

I love John Coltrane. He's probably the greatest musical mind to have ever lived and definitely my pick for the greatest jazz artist of all time. I had once read somewhere that Coltrane's music feels like an invasion of privacy, since it grips your heart in the most intimate of ways—and no better album examplifies this idea better than Interstellar Space.

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A special release in being among the final recordings ever made by Coltrane. Though the pieces here aren’t overly ‘interstellar’ in scale, they nevertheless feel like a natural extension and component of Coltrane’s Free Jazz-mastery that defined his final days