Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – September 2019

There's always one more thing in the vault, it seems. This month, a previously unreleased John Coltrane session will appear, and much like last year's Both Directions At Once, it's not quite an album, but it's more than a collection of castoffs. The eight tracks on Blue World were recorded in June 1964, as a favor to Canadian director Gilles Groulx, a friend of the Coltrane quartet's bassist, Jimmy Garrison. This was done without Impulse! Records' knowledge. The music was intended to serve as the soundtrack to the movie Le chat dans le sac (The Cat In The Bag), but Groulx only used a few fragments in the finished film. The tapes were essentially forgotten, until an archivist from the National Film Board Of Canada started assembling Groulx's work in the early 2000s, and the government reached out to Impulse! to let them know about the tapes.