Home / Music / Africa/Brass was John Coltrane's first album on Impulse! RecordsMusic linernotes album music john-coltraneAfrica/Brass was John Coltrane's first album on Impulse! RecordsReleased in September 1961 on Impulse! Records, Africa/Brass marked Coltrane’s debut on the label. 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 bandColtrane blew up his quartet to 21 musicians for Africa/BrassBlue Train has five tracks — four Coltrane originals and a standardBallads was John Coltrane's second Impulse! album — but the first to focus entirely on balladsExploreECM Records released the Standards Trio recordingsPhiladelphia International Records released Closer Than Close in 1981Ryoji Ikeda released Superposition on his own Codex Edition labelBella Union released The Vessels' Oblivion in 2013Just Sunshine Records put out Betty Davis's They Say I'm Different in 1974Previous Albert Ayler lived and performed in Copenhagen from 1962 to 1964Next A Monastic Trio was recorded at John Coltrane's home in 1968