John Coltrane – Detroit, MI (09/25/58)

John Coltrane – Joe Henderson
Private jam in Joe Brazil’s basement
Detroit, MI
25 September 1958

REMASTERED

dIME > Audacity (some cutting and lots of volume adjustments ) > dime

Now we can listen to the musicians !!!

I wait for your opinion but the only Trane solo I’m sure of is
in Track 1 from 2’30 to 5’30.

John Coltrane tenor sax
Joe Henderson tenor sax
Joe Brazil alto sax
Unknown Ten on track 01
Sonny ‘Red’ Kyner alto sax
Hugh Lawson piano
Erni Farrow bass
Roy Brooks drums

Private tape recorded by Joe Brazil

1. Untitled blues jam, ending with Now’s the Time (19:41)
2. Woody’n You (8:10)
3. Paul’s Pal (13:12)
4. Sweet Georgia Brown (12:34)

The coltrane reference provides the following analysis of the contents

After each tune there are a few seconds of talking and practising;
on 1 solos are:
Sonny red Kyner (alto)
Trane
Probably Joe Brazil
Donald Towns (Tr)
Unknown Ten
Joe Henderson

on 2 Coltrane does not solo;
on 3 Joe Henderson solos first, followed by Coltrane and
on 4 Coltrane solos first followed by Henderson, and it is at a very fast tempo.

Joe Henderson found a copy of this tape in his basement in his house
in San Francisco on September 28, 1991, the day Miles Davis died.
There’s a pic of Joe H with the cassette tape of this jam in Fuji.