JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET
Sessions at RCA-Victor Studios, New York City
August 26, 1965
Broadcast on WKCR, Sept 23, 2001. Ex FM stereo.

wkcr disc 1 titles : 

1 dearly beloved (take 2)
2 db (take 3)
3 attaining (take 1)
4 attaining (take 2) 
5 attaining (take 3) 
6 insert 1
7 sunship (take 1) 
8 sunship (take 2 - incomplete) 


“In 2001, WKCR made a broadcast containing the unreleased takes of the Sunship
Album. These takes have never been released officially.” - Maurizio.

Sun Ship was an album that followed in the same vein as the late 1964 album, A
Love Supreme. That was Coltrane’s famous album dedicated to the Supreme Being,
God. After A Love Supreme, Coltrane continued with his spiritual journey which
gave power to his music. The albums that followed, Ascension, Meditations, Kulu
Se Mama and the post-humously released Om and Infinity, all recorded in 1965,
displayed a man describing his faith and beliefs through music and chants. Sun
Ship was recorded in August of that year.

Coltrane chose free jazz as the vehicle for his searching. Although neither
Albert Ayler nor Archie Shepp or Pharoah Sanders, the free jazz advocates, sit
in on these sessions, Tyner, Garrison and Jones felt the music just as deeply.

Sun Ship is an underrated album in the Coltrane canon but as the reviewers at
the Penguin Guide To Jazz suggest, “it’s high time this fine record was better
known”.