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The recordings that make up Afro Blue Impressions were acquired by jazz impresario/auteur Norman Granz during the tours he produced for many jazz artists during the 1960s, though they werent issued until 1973. Recorded at shows in Berlin and Stockholm, the John Coltrane Quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones is in tremendous form here, using a familiar repertoire in order to expand upon the groups own building blocks in creating the new post-harmonic system that the saxophonist was developing. Reissued on vinyl by Craft Recordings, released as part of the Craft Jazz Essentials series.