Shepp participated in the sessions for Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" in late 1964, but none of the takes he participated in were included on the final LP release (they were made available for the first time on a 2002 reissue). However, Shepp, along with Tchicai and others from the "Four for Trane" sessions, then recorded "Ascension" with Coltrane in 1965, and his place alongside Coltrane at the forefront of the avant-garde jazz scene was epitomized when the pair split a record (the first side a Coltrane set, the second a Shepp set) entitled "New Thing at Newport" released in late 1965.