The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
by John Coltrane
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The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording is ranked 29th best out of 90 albums by John Coltrane on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by John Coltrane is A Love Supreme which is ranked number 76 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,837.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 06/04/2026 01:22 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,105 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/09/2025 06:44 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 |
| ! | 10/11/2025 23:23 | RockingRoll666 | 1,682 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/02/2024 03:22 | thepardunk | 2,587 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2024 19:17 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,632 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 21.3.
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EyeKanFly 05/06/2021 19:47 | #269437
Ditto Onater's comment. This might be the most stressful album I've ever listened to. It's heavier than metal, freer than most free jazz, and more frantic than serialism or atonalism.
While I'm not sure if this was the intent, it's almost as if this is a set of frenetic last breaths by someone who knew he was dying and realized he had so much left to accomplish, and so much fear that the days were his last. That may be a bit melodramatic considering Coltrane was playing free jazz for at least 2 years prior, but this is jazz at its freest.
This is one of the most challenging albums I've ever heard, but I think it's worth listening to as a portrait of the last few months of Coltrane's life.
3.5/5. It was insane, and I'm glad I listened to it, but I honestly don't know if I'll be able to bring myself to listen to it again for a while. Also note that my rating scale might be slightly harsher than most. If it's above 2.5/5, it means I liked the album, above 3/5 means I thought it was good, 4/5 means I thought it was great, so this is somewhere between good and great I suppose.
Onater 08/05/2017 22:54 | #195589
This thing is heavier than any death metal album ever.
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