Impulse! · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Kulu Sé Mama
| Recorded | Jun 10 & Oct 14, 1965 |
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| Label | Impulse! |
| Released | 1965 |
| Personnel | 7 credited players |
| Discogs | master 32372 |
The record
Recorded as the quartet was expanding into something more ritualistic, this session finds Coltrane opening the door to Pharoah Sanders and vocalist-percussionist Juno Lewis for a side-long invocation that trades chord changes for chant and drone. A transitional document between the classic quartet's lyricism and the ecstatic free explorations to come.
Session personnel
- Jimmy Garrison — bass, bass clarinet
- Elvin Jones — drums
- Frank Butler — drums
- McCoy Tyner — piano
- John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
- Pharoah Sanders — tenor saxophone
- Juno Lewis — vocals, percussion
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
The 1966 US Impulse! pressings are the earliest on file: mono A-9106 and stereo AS-9106, both carrying an RVG stamp and a gatefold sleeve, with a white/black demonstration promo of the mono listed as well. Two club editions from the same year, mono MAS-91151 and stereo SMAS-91151, circulate alongside them. The UK had it on His Master's Voice -- CLP 3617 in mono, CSD 3617 in stereo. Impulse! and later MCA kept repressing into 1980. No audiophile reissue appears in our data.
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 77 pressings on file.
| 1966 | Impulse! · MAS-91151 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Mono, Gatefold earliest on file · RVG stamp; gatefold |
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| 1966 | Impulse! · SMAS-91151 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Club Edition, Gatefold · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1966 | Impulse! · AS-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1966 | Impulse! · A-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1966 | Sparton Impulse! Records · A-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1966 | Impulse! · A-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono, White / Black Demonstration Labels · RVG stamp |
| 1966 | Impulse! · A-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1967 | Impulse! · AS-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1967 | Impulse! · A-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · RVG stamp |
| 1967 | Impulse! · A-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · RVG stamp; laminated sleeve; gatefold |
| 1967 | Impulse! · SR 3005 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold, Flexi-disc, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single Sided, Promo, Blue translucent · deep groove; gatefold |
| 1968 | Impulse! · AS-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo, Gatefold · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1969 | Impulse! · 2 C 262-90831 — Cassette, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1971 | Impulse! · AS-9106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
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