New Thing at Newport


New Thing at Newport is a 1965 live album featuring two separate sets from that year's Newport Jazz Festival by tenor saxophonists John Coltrane and Archie Shepp. It was recorded four days after the recording session for Coltrane's album Ascension, on which Shepp appeared, and is one of several albums documenting the end stages of Coltrane's "classic quartet," which would begin to break up by the end of that year with the departure of McCoy Tyner. Reviewer Tim Niland called the album "an excellent example of the rapidly evolving state of jazz in the mid 1960's by two of its most well known practitioners."

Track listing

Original LP release

Side One
  1. Spoken introduction to John Coltrane's set by Father Norman O'Connor - 1:08
  2. "One Down One Up" - 12:28
  3. "Rufus " - 4:58
Side Two
  1. "Le Matin des Noire" - 7:39
  2. "Scag" - 3:04
  3. "Call Me by My Rightful Name" - 6:19

    CD release

From notes: For the first time, the pieces within each set appear here in the order in which they were performed.
  1. Spoken introduction to John Coltrane's set by Father Norman O'Connor - 1:08
  2. "One Down One Up” - 12:42
  3. "My Favorite Things” - 15:14; Spoken conclusion to John Coltrane's set by Father Norman O'Connor
  4. Spoken introduction to Archie Shepp's set by Billy Taylor - 1:41
  5. "Gingerbread, Gingerbread Boy” - 10:26
  6. "Call Me by My Rightful Name” - 6:38
  7. "Scag” - 3:19
  8. "Rufus ” - 5:17
  9. "Le Matin des Noire” - 8:20

    Personnel

Recorded July 2, 1965, at the Newport Jazz Festival.
The John Coltrane Quartet
The Archie Shepp Quartet