Elvin Jones: Dear John C. (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) 1LP STAFF and orchestral brilliance in a

and orchestral brilliance in a way only Q can deliver

” and the grooving title track before closing with an elegant version of the standard “Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You

These 12 songs reveal the depth and breadth of producer NK-OK

and Bill Evans is sophistication personified at the piano

and Ed Blackwell on drums that presented five Cherry originals including “Awake Nu” and “The Thing

Elvin Jones: Dear John C. (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) 1LP STAFF and orchestral brilliance in aImpulse!, 1965 Recorded on February 25, 1965, at Rudy Van Gelders studio and released later that year on Impulse! Records, Dear John C. marked Elvin Joness first album as a leader for the label after several seminal years defining the rhythmic architecture of the John Coltrane Quartet. Produced by Bob Thiele, the album honors Coltrane while showcasing Joness dynamic, polyrhythmic drumming across contemporary standards, ballads, and originals such as