but that's the only one i've heard.

Awesome. Kind of a best of the Village Vanguard boxset. If yer feeling a bit rich, go for the box. Stunning stuff.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali.

2 tracks Naima which is incredible and then this 30 mins free version of MY Favourite Things which is bonkers/great/mindbinding/life changin in equal mesures.

Ive got this original 1966 12" pressing. its one of my favourite things ever!

The Village Vanguard set is the best sounding and shows that Coltrane was well on his way to where his journey ended when he signed to Impulse despite some of the commercial albums he knocked out at the time. I got the box for about 20 quid. Olatunji is like nothing else I've ever heard. Anyone with even a passing interest in extreme music needs that record.

I think my favourite might be One Down One Up though just because it captures the classic quartet (probably the greatest ever meeting of 4 musicians) at their very peak. The sound quality isn't great but I love the way they've left the announcer in there to put it some kind of context.

I probably like those 3 more than most of his studio albums. The other live Impulse albums aren't that essential.

I'd go for Live at Antibes 1965. It's a bootleg I picked up in Japan a few years ago (though I think there may be a European bootleg too). The setlist is practically a greatest hits - Naima, Blue Valse (aka Ascension), My Favourite Things, Impressions - and the quartet are at their peak. I've got a lot of Coltrane, and this is possibly the one I return to the most often,

As everyone else says, Olatunji is amazing too. The rough sound suits the music perfectly and it's easily the best of his post-classic quartet recordings.