'Africa' - The John Coltrane Quartet (Africa Brass)

"Africa/Brass" is the eighth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Impulse! records catalogue A-6. The sixth release for the fledgling label and Coltrane's first for Impulse!, it features Coltrane's working quartet augmented by a larger ensemble to bring the total number of participating musicians to 21. Its big band sound, with the unusual instrumentation of French horns and euphonium, presented music very different from anything that had been associated with Coltrane to date.

... the Byrds' McGuinn and Crosby continued to mention John Coltrane in so many interviews it was impossible to not become curious. There would have been no modal McGuinn legendary 12-string Rickenbacker solo on Eight Miles High without Coltrane, and once you walk through that door you discover this he ranks up there with Miles Davies and Louis Armstrong. In short, he is an American icon, a foundation stone of American music, and...ahem...as a then-young clerk at Rhino Records in West Los Angeles, I had someone no less than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tell me how the African-American hep youth of the late 1950s/1960s considered 'Trane to be a Hero in all regards.
ONE MORE THING: you can actually hear some of McGuinn's Eight Miles High guitar licks on this album. At least three of them are pretty much note-for-note, and yes, played on sax but they are perfectly audible and recognizable. This is the album where 'Trane was moving further than ever away from straight jazz and exploring what some felt was atonal African, primarily rhythmic musics bur whatever, decide for yourself...? by Sid Griffin on July 6, 2014

Thanks to Tydon Safaris, South Africa.

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What is that sound at 4:56??? Sounds like static or something