NEW VINYL LP BOX SET ON UNIVERSAL 2021

4 X 180 GRAM VINYL.

Impulse! Records will celebrate six decades of releasing some of Americas most widely-acclaimed jazz records with a mix of 60th-anniversary special releases, the label announced on Friday. Branded as Impulse 60! the year-long campaign will see the legendary label release a variety of rare and never-before-heard recordings from John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Quincy Jones, and more; unreleased live recordings; high-fidelity reissues of seminal albums; and brand new music from the labels current roster of artists. The first celebratory release will be Impulse! Records: Music, Message & The Moment, a 4LP box set containing records from Quincy Jones, Alice and John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, and more, due out May 14th. Also included in the box set will be a magazine-style booklet containing the original Impulse! advertisements and artists promo photographs, along with an Impulse! vinyl slipmat. Watch the unboxing video for Music, Message & The Moment below.

Tracklist

1. The John Coltrane Quartet Africa
2. Max Roach Garvey’s Ghost
3. Quincy Jones and his Orchestra Hard Sock Dance
4. John Coltrane Up ‘Gainst the Wall
5. Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet Just Us Blues
6. John Coltrane Alabama
7. Charles Mingus Better Get Hit in Yo’ Soul
8. Shirley Scott Trio Freedom Dance
9. Yusef Lateef Sister Mamie
10. Archie Shepp Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm
11. Stanley Turrentine Good Lookin’ Out
12. Earl Hines Black and Tan Fantasy
13. Oliver Nelson The Rights of All
14. Pharoah Sanders The Creator Has a Master Plan (edit)
15. John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane Reverend King
16. The Ahmad Jamal Trio The Awakening
17. Albert Ayler Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe
18. Charlie Haden We Shall Overcome
19. Alice Coltrane Blue Nile
20. Pharoah Sanders Astral Traveling
21. Archie Shepp Blues for Brother George Jackson
22. Michael White Lament (Mankind)
23. Dewey Redman Imani
24. Marion Brown Bismillahi ‘Rrahmani ‘Rrahim
25. John Handy Hard Work