Ballads

John Coltrane’s Ballads captures the masterful quartet in a lyrical exploration of standard ballads. Recorded in Englewood Cliffs between 1961 and 1962 and originally released by Impulse! in 1963, the album features John Coltrane with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones. It includes intimate renditions of Say It (Over and Over Again), You Don’t Know What Love Is, I Wish I Knew, What’s New?, Nancy (With the Laughing Face) and Greensleeves, illustrating Coltrane’s melodic lyricism.