His horn tone is warm, sharp, and perfectly centered in the stereo image, capturing the exact room acoustics of Rudy Van Gelder’s famous studio.
Living Space features the classic ‘Classic Quartet’ (Trane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) plus the addition of Archie Shepp’s piercing tenor on one track. It is the sound of Trane dismantling standard chord changes and rebuilding them as modal staircases to the infinite.