A Previously Lost 1963 Session from John Coltrane’s Classic Quartet

The lost John Coltrane album, Both Directions at Once, reveals a hard day’s work.by Ned LannamannOn March 6, 1963, the John Coltrane Quartet played a session at the famed Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. They recorded for approximately five hours—they had a show at Birdland in midtown Manhattan to get to later that evening. The tape was never released and was thought to be lost after Coltrane’s record label, Impulse!, was bought by ABC Records, and the archiv