The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
Live album by John Coltrane
Released	2001
Recorded	April 23, 1967
Genre	Free jazz
Length	63:38
Label	Impulse! Records
Producer(s)	Bryan Koniarz
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The Olatunji Concert is the Impulse! Records-released last live recording of saxophonist John Coltrane, recorded April 23, 1967 at the Olatunji Center of African Culture in New York and released posthumously on CD. The album consists of two songs, Ogunde, which Coltrane also recorded for his final self-approved album, Expression, and an especially free-form My Favorite Things, which Coltrane had performed live regularly since 1960. Impulse! Records is an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City. ... John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), often known as Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 - April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer. ... Expression may refer to: (in the vernacular) the act or particular way of expressing something (including an emotion through a facial expression or configuration) (in mathematics) a mathematical expression (in computing) a programming language expression (in computing) a vector graphics software Microsoft Expression (in genetics) the effect produced by a... My Favorite Things can refer to: A song from The Sound of Music A famous interpretation of the song by John Coltrane The album on which Coltranes version was first recorded A remix of Coltranes version by Outkast on the album The Love Below This is a disambiguation...

Coltrane, deathly ill, reporedly played uncharacteristically confined to a chair, too weak to stand. ^{[citation needed]} Nonetheless Coltrane performed intense and lengthy, if poorly recorded solos. Sonically, the album is notable for its overwhelming din of multiple drummers.

Track listing

1. Introduction - 0:35
2. "Ogunde" - 28:25
3. "My Favorite Things" - 34:38

Personnel

• John Coltrane - Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
• Pharoah Sanders - Tenor Saxophone
• Alice Coltrane - Piano
• Jimmy Garrison - Bass
• Rashied Ali - Drums
• Algie DeWitt - Bata drum
• Jumma Santos - Percussion (possibly)