John Coltrane - Offering: Live at Temple University

Deluxe two CD set housed in a digipak.

OFFERING: LIVE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY documents a legendary concert by John Coltrane at Temple University in his hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1966, six weeks after his 40th birthday and nine months before his untimely death. OFFERING incorporates a look that is contiguous with the graphic identity of Impulse! Records, Coltranes exclusive label from 1961 until the end of his life.

This is the first officially sanctioned release of an undiscovered, complete Coltrane performance since 2005. It captures Coltrane in exemplary form, navigating the language he had developed during the last phase of his musical path with passion and pellucid logic. Operating at equivalent levels of invention and energy are three members of his working quintet of one year's standing his wife, Alice Coltrane, on piano; Pharoah Sanders on reeds and flute; and Rashied Ali on drums.