Griggs still remembers the exact date he realized what he had found. Griggs made the discovery while sorting and digitizing Brazil’s collection of 750 reel-to-real tapes and 80 videos, many made while Brazil taught jazz history at the University of Washington. The new tapes were found by Seattle saxophonist Steve Griggs in a vast collection left by another Seattle sax man, the late educator and activist Joe Brazil. ![]() 2, 1965, the last night of a six-night stand at Seattle’s Penthouse jazz club, the same engagement that also yielded the professionally recorded album Live In Seattle. ![]() That assumption was upended with the October 2021 release on Impulse! of a private recording made some two months later, on Saturday, Oct. Until last year, John Coltrane was widely thought to have performed his masterpiece A Love Supreme only once live, on July 26, 1965, at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, in France. (Photo: Raymond Ross Archives, DTSImages) ![]() More than a mere rarity, the new A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle is an avant-garde gem that offers new insights into Coltrane’s iconic work.
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