Tracklist

1

Ascension

40:27

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – MCA Records, Inc.
• Manufactured By – Record Service GmbH

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – John Tchicai, Marion Brown
• Bass – Art Davis, Jimmy Garrison
• Drums – Elvin Jones
• Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
• Piano – McCoy Tyner
• Producer – Bob Thiele
• Tenor Saxophone – Archie Shepp, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders
• Trumpet – Dewey Johnson, Freddie Hubbard

Notes

Recorded 28 June, 1965 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

This is the 1st take of the piece (Edition II).
By accident Bob Thiele put out the wrong take. After he went through the initial press run, he switched the masters to the other take and inscribed Edition II on the inside of the runout circle. So there are really two versions of Ascension.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Printed): 0 2292-54618-2 7
• Barcode: 022925461827
• Label Code: LC 1056
• Matrix / Runout: 254618-2 @ 1
• Rights Society: GEMA / BIEM

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
AS-95, A-95	John Coltrane	Ascension (Edition II) ‎(LP, Album)	Impulse!, Impulse!	AS-95, A-95	US	1965
A-95	John Coltrane	Ascension (Edition II) ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Impulse!	A-95	US	1967
RR-98-245-2	John Coltrane	Ascension ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial)	Oldis, VAPP association, Release Records	RR-98-245-2	Russia	1998
SH-3076	John Coltrane	Ascension ‎(LP, Album)	Impulse!	SH-3076	Japan	1966
AS-95	John Coltrane	Ascension (Edition II) ‎(LP, Album, RE, Gat)	Impulse!, ABC Records	AS-95	US	1973