Home / Music / Coltrane blew up his quartet to 21 musicians for Africa/BrassMusic linernotes album music john-coltraneColtrane blew up his quartet to 21 musicians for Africa/BrassColtrane expanded from his working quartet to 21 musicians for the Africa/Brass sessions. That’s a lot of horns. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesCrescent is Coltrane at his most melodic — a calm before the free-jazz stormNaima was recorded with Miles Davis's rhythm section, not Coltrane's usual bandBlue Train has five tracks — four Coltrane originals and a standardBallads was John Coltrane's second Impulse! album — but the first to focus entirely on balladsGiant Steps was Coltrane's first album of entirely original compositionsExploreDataplex is 20 tracks of surgically precise electronic artGeogaddi layers 23 tracks across 73 minutesSandinista! is a triple album with 36 tracks — 6 per sideRain Dogs is Tom Waits at his most sprawling — 19 tracksTusk spreads 20 Fleetwood Mac tracks across two LPsPrevious Coltrane's Africa/Brass was cut over two sessions at Van Gelder StudioNext Charles Mingus paid tribute to jazz greats on Mingus Ah Um.