COLTRANE,JOHN - The Tiberi Tapes Box Set Vinyl LP

Expected: 11/6/26

The Tiberi Tapes opens a door long-whispered about among Coltrane fans: intimate, previously-unheard live recordings made by saxophonist Frank Tiberi as he followed John Coltrane through Philadelphia and New York clubs in the early 1960s. Captured on modest reel-to-reel equipment, these performances trade polish for presence, placing the listener close to the bandstand as Coltrane and his bandmates test, stretch and transform the music in real time. The sound bears the immediacy of its origins: raw, direct and alive with discovery.

For Tiberi, these tapes were study materials, a private archive of harmonic information and musical inspiration. More than sixty years later, they emerge as something larger: a vital chapter in the Coltrane story, preserving the feeling, risk and relentless searching that made the bandstand his truest laboratory. Heard now, the music feels not archival but immediate, a living document of curiosity, discipline and ecstatic momentum.

Tracks:

LP1
Side A
1. Giant Steps (228 bpm)
Recorded June or July 1960 at the Showboat, Philadelphia, PA or the Jazz Gallery, New York, NY.

2. Giant Steps (276 bpm)
Recorded July 22, 1960 at the Showboat, Philadelphia, PA.

Side B
1. Thing in D Flat
Recorded July 1, 1960 at the Jazz Gallery, New York, NY.

LP2
Side A
1. Lover
Recorded July 1, 1960 at the Jazz Gallery, New York, NY.

2. West 42nd St.
Recorded between July 24–29, 1961 at the Showboat, Philadelphia, PA.

Side B
1. Impressions
Recorded between July 24–29, 1961 at the Showboat, Philadelphia, PA.

LP3
Side A
1. Untitled Original in F Minor
Recorded between July 24–29, 1961 at the Showboat, Philadelphia, PA.

2. Satellite
Recorded between October 16–21, 1961 at the Showboat, Philadelphia, PA.

Side B
1. Good Bait
Recorded between November 11–17, 1963 at the Showboat, Philadelphia, PA.

LP4
Side A
1. Resolution (Part 1)
Recorded September 18, 1964 at Pep's, Philadelphia, PA.

Side B
1. Resolution (Part 2)
Recorded September 18, 1964 at Pep's, Philadelphia, PA.

2. It's Easy to Remember
Recorded October 19, 1962 at the Showboat, Philadelphia, PA.

Label: Impulse Records