Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, March 6th, 1963
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – John Coltrane
Piano – McCoy Tyner
Bass – Jimmy Garrison
Drums – Elvin Jones
Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
Liner Notes – Ashley Kahn

Interstellar Space consists of an extended duet suite in four parts with the drummer Rashied Ali, and was recorded at the Van Gelder Studio on February 22, 1967, the week after the session that produced Stellar Regions. As a result, the melodies often overlap; "Venus" has the same melody as the title track of the previous LP, "Mars" quotes the melody of what became known as "Iris", and many note choices and runs are similar.
At the beginning of most of the songs, Coltrane plays chime-like bells, while Ali sets a shifting pattern on the drums; then the theme is stated by Coltrane on tenor saxophone. The album is an important[according to whom?] example of highly improvised free jazz, which was Coltrane's principal interest in the latter part of his career. Coltrane's improvisations are thus extremely free here, stating tacit modes and harmonies briefly and modulating constantly, fitting extremely dense, twisting expressions into breath-length phrases. The folkish "Venus" is probably the most accessible number; "Saturn", the longest piece, does feature hints of swing by song's end. Its melody is rather similar to the canonical, almost cantor-like quality of the material on Stellar Regions.
The original album featured four tracks: "Mars" (titled "C Major" in the ABC/Paramount session sheets), "Venus" (titled "Dream Chant" in the session sheets), "Jupiter", and "Saturn". Two further tracks from the session, "Leo" and "Jupiter Variation", later appeared on the compilation album Jupiter Variation in 1978. A 2000 CD reissue collected all of the tracks from the session, including false starts for "Jupiter Variation" in the CD's pregap.

Recorded：December 9, 1964
Studio：Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
The John Coltrane Quartet[edit]
John Coltrane – bandleader, liner notes, vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone[40]
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums, gong, timpani
McCoy Tyner – piano
Additional personnel[edit]
Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone on alternate takes of "Acknowledgement"
Art Davis – double bass on alternate takes of "Acknowledgement"
Rudy Van Gelder – engineering and mastering
Bob Thiele – production and cover photo[41]
George Gray/Viceroy – cover design
Victor Kalin – illustration
Joe Lebow – liner design

Recorded in New York City, May 31, 1957.

在B.B.King的Blues Club举办的本届爵士音乐奖的颁奖礼中，由蓝音符公司(Blue Note)发行，波普钢琴大师赛罗尼斯·蒙克(Thelonious Monk)与英年早逝的萨克斯演奏大师约翰·柯川(John Coltrane)合作的现场专辑《Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall》被评为今年的“年度最佳专辑”。这张专辑是Thelonious Monk四重奏和John Coltrane在1957年合作演出的现场。两人的合作虽然十分短暂，但对爵士音乐的发展却有着重要的历史意义。这张专辑后面还有段故事的...
事情是这样的，1957年11月29日，钢琴大师Thelonious Monk和萨克斯风之王John Coltrane等四位音乐家，在卡内基音乐厅举办了一场演奏会。这场演奏会当时并没有唱片公司作录音发行，不过当时专门对全美播报新闻信息的单位，「美国之声」〈Voice of America〉，利用他们的广播节目时段作了这场音乐会的录音实况转播。播完后，转播带贴上标签就丢进或许是库房什么的地方了。后来，包括这张转播带连同其它许多数据，再一同被移放到位于华盛顿特区的「国会图书馆」〈Library of Congress〉永久保存，大家也就忘了里头有这么一张录音。有趣的是，「国会图书馆」根据卷标为所有录音数据分类，但这张卡内基音乐厅录音的卷标却标示的不清不楚。也就是说，万一哪天有人想起来Thelonious Monk与John Coltrane的音乐会其实是有录音纪录的，想挖出来可是比登天还难。这时候，运气就显的格外重要了。公元2005年1月，「国会图书馆」里一位叫做Larry Applebaum的管理员，他本身对爵士乐也极有研究，在作例行的数字转文件作业〈将老录音转成数字音源延长保存寿命〉时，发现了一张老带子上面注明着：「11/29/57 Carnegie Jazz Concert」，转档时一听可不得了，原来这场传说中的录音确实存在！接下来的事就可以想象了，消息传出去，各大唱片公司开始竞标这场音乐会的发行权，而最后则是由Thelonious Monk之子T.S. Monk与Blue Note Records负责发行。消失的录音重见天日。对爵士迷来说，这个大发现就好比公元1947年，三名少年在死海之滨无意发现的圣经古卷那般重要。这场录音毫无疑问的将是本世纪爵士乐的最大惊奇，终将列名千古。
Thelonious Monk piano
John Coltrane tenor saxophone
Ahmed abdul-malik bass
Shadow Wilson drums
Recorded on November 29, 1957 By Voice of America at Carnegie Hall, NYC

Although it is often reported that Coltrane and Hartman had known each other since their days playing with Dizzy Gillespie's band in the late 1940s, the truth is that their time in the band never overlapped. Coltrane might have heard Hartman sing at a 1950 Apollo Theater performance at which they shared the stage.Hartman is the only vocalist with whom the saxophonist would record as a leader. Initially when producer Bob Thiele approached Hartman with Coltrane's request that the two record together Hartman was hesitant as he did not consider himself a jazz singer and did not think he and Coltrane would complement one another musically.However, Thiele encouraged Hartman to go see Coltrane perform at Birdland in New York to see if something could be worked out. Hartman did so, and after the club closed he, Coltrane and Coltrane's pianist, McCoy Tyner, went over some songs together. On March 7, 1963, Coltrane and Hartman had decided on 10 songs for the record album, but en route to the studio they heard Nat King Cole on the radio performing "Lush Life", and Hartman immediately decided that song had to be included in their album.
The compilation was made that same day at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Hartman once said that each song was done in only one take, except for "You Are Too Beautiful", which required two takes because Elvin Jones dropped one of his drumsticks during the first take.In 2005, the raw tapes were reviewed by jazz archivist Barry Kernfeld, who documented there were actually complete alternate takes for all six songs that he considered "absolutely riveting."Until clear ownership of these tapes is established between the Coltrane family and Universal Music, there are no plans for their release.
John Coltrane – tenor sax
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Johnny Hartman - vocals
Elvin Jones – drums
McCoy Tyner – piano