Impulse Albums: Volume 3

These mid-'60s Impulse! LPs found the ceaselessly searching jazz innovator rising into the realm of the avant-garde. Trane stirs the soul deeply even as he explores the dizzying depths of atonality on The John Coltrane Quartet Plays, Meditations, New Thing at Newport, Kulu Se Mama and the mind-expanding classic Ascension (contains both released versions of that one).