captured on tape, performances thus haunted by our foreknowledge that what will follow them is silence. More importantly and perhaps even more compelling, they represent a suggestion of the evolution his music would have taken had his life not been cut so short, a tantalizing glimpse of an unrealized future. The February recordings show all the features of the "late period," yet those elements seemed reharmonized, given added coherence and impact through the reappearance of form, of relative brevity, of renewed control... Change is the constant in Coltrane's work, and the evolution continued even to the last. That evolutionary line may have ended prematurely, but these eight compositions, a day's work from mid-February of 1967, stand alone as fully formed masterworks, explorations of the "late Coltrane" idiom in the format of the Classic John Coltrane Quartet, new music a quarter-century-old, still original and startling-a fresh look at the music of John Coltrane. Track listing "Seraphic Light" – 8:57 "Sun Star" – 6:08 "Stellar Regions" – 3:34 "Iris" – 3:53 "Offering" – 8:22 "Configuration" – 4:03 "Jimmy's Mode" – 6:00 "Tranesonic" – 4:17 Bonus tracks "Stellar Regions" [Alternate Take] – 4:40 "Sun Star" [Alternate Take] – 8:05 "Tranesonic" [Alternate Take] – 2:49 Personnel John Coltrane — tenor saxophone Alice Coltrane — piano Jimmy Garrison — bass Rashied Ali — drums Notes References 1995 albums John Coltrane albums Albums produced by Bob Thiele Albums published posthumously Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Impulse! Records albums