thekendruker

As a Canadian, I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

Seeing as how all of his work as a leader was recorded after he'd recovered from his addiction, I think the answer is fairly clearly no.

The master tapes were lost by the record company and Coltrane's own reference tapes were only recently discovered in the home of his first wife, Naima, after her passing.

Extraordinary, from start to finish. Even though I knew that the tapes existed for a few years, hearing them for the first time in December 2017 was revelatory. Since then, working with Ravi Coltrane and seeing the reception of the album over the last few weeks has been incredibly gratifying.

We played the entire session for Mr. Tyner and his family soon after we received the reference reels. He didn't have any specific recollections of the session or the previously-unknown compositions but he spoke very warmly and emotionally of his time with Coltrane's quartet. It was an incredibly special experience for all off us in the studio that day.