Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album

Pitchfork 8.6/10 The newly discovered, unreleased album from 1963 featuring the “classic quartet” finds the jazz giant thrillingly caught between shoring up and surging forth.

The Line of Best Fit 10/10 It’s a most welcome and inevitably stunning missing chapter from one of jazz’s finest quartet.

Rolling Stone 4.5/5 Regardless of the intent, there’s plenty to savor here, from an era when the saxophonist was edging ever further from the center of jazz and closer to the increasingly ambitious and ecstatic approach he would take in the three years before his death in 1967.

All Music 4/5 Both Directions at Once is truly a rare thing: an important discovery from the vault that's also a blast to hear.

The Guardian 4/5 These on-the-fly Coltrane experiments were part of a 1960s step-change in the evolution of jazz and much else in contemporary music, still making waves from those long-gone analogue days to the eclectic present.

Spectrum Culture 85% Here is a great band, finding new footing even as it sits at a moment that we all thought was a temporary respite from change.