The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
| The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording | |
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| Live album by John Coltrane | |
| Released | 2001 |
| Recorded | April 23, 1967, Olatunji Center of African Culture, New York City, New York, United States |
| Genre | Free jazz |
| Length | 63:38 |
| Label | Impulse! |
| Producer | Bryan Koniarz |
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording is the Impulse! Records-released final live recording of saxophonist John Coltrane, recorded April 23, 1967, at the Olatunji Center of African Culture in New York and released posthumously on Compact Disc. 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. The recording was done for broadcast on Billy Taylor's local radio station, WLIB.
About a month after this show, Coltrane began to complain of intense abdominal pain; he died two months after that, in July. The Olatunji Concert was not Coltrane's last show, but rather, his penultimate—he would play one more on May 7, 1967, in Baltimore.
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