By 1963, when he recorded “Both Directions at Once,” the long-lost album out Friday, John Coltrane was about chant and pulse and scalding pursuit. Yet he continued to write bright, memorable themes; this is still the man who’d penned the tunes on “Blue Train.” The three fresh original compositions on “Both Directions” (those not released on any other official album) charge and tumble, but they also sing. They’re ear-wedges. And then there’s “Slow Blues” — something else entirely — an 11-and-a-half-minute chance to clear out your melody-packed brain and follow Coltrane’s lead more freely. He speaks a thoroughgoing blues language throughout, even as he’s sliding in and out of key, tearing his tones, improvising in cuts against the grain and suggesting alternatives to the harmony and the rhythm. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO