Coltrane's Sound

Artist: John Coltrane
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227558826
EAN: 0081227558826
ASIN: B00000HZEX

Release Date: 1999-02-16

Related Categories:

Bebop General

| Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

General

| Jazz | Styles | Music

General

| Pop | Styles | Music

Hard Bop

| Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

Listmania:

The Essential John Coltrane
The Ultimate Coltrane
Yet another best of John Coltrane list
Album's I've Been Listening To (Winter 03)
Your quintessential jazz collection
Albums I Could Not Live Without
COLTRANE'S MAGIC '13' & THE ORDER YOU SHOULD BUY THEM IN
15 records that don't leave my sight -- most of the time
10 Desert Island Coltrane CDs
Inspirational Coltrane

Tracks:

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Central Park West
Liberia
Body And Soul
Equinox
Satellite
26-2
Body And Soul (Alternate Take)

Similar Items:

Coltrane Plays the Blues
Coltrane Jazz
Live at Birdland
Crescent
My Favorite Things [Deluxe Edition]

Customer Reviews:

COLTRANE'S SOUND: perfect album.......2005-09-20

another classic record from John Coltrane. "Equinox" was the first Coltrane song i ever heard and it still sends shivers up my spine every time i hear it. "Central Park West" also has a wonderful autumn feel to it. i can't help but picture red and orange-yellow leaves falling on doorsteps in brooklyn whenever it plays. every track on here is rock solid and without fault. i dig the melting face cover art too. recommended!

A hidden masterpiece.......2004-10-04

This was never envitioned as an album by Coltrane. The record company had a bunch of tracks in the can, and they decided to split them off in different albums. Sounds like a bad idea, but they actually got it right here, maybe by accident. Coltrane sound flows with a great track selection. The best Atlantic after 'Giant Steps',and highly recommended, even as a first purchase for someone interested in getting in John Coltrane.

Often overlooked but worthy 'Trane release..........2004-05-20

Recorded in the same month as his famous "My Favorite Things" LP, in the fall of 1960, and by the same ensemble, this album was not put on the market until 1964 for some reason. While no one selection here has the cachet of his ten-minute treatment of that song from "Sound of Music", overall, this one is just as good. This album is not normally named as one of the ten best Coltrane efforts in his prolific recording career, but I'd rate it as deserving a spot right about number ten or so. Others will rank it higher. I prefer the early 'Trane to his more experimental efforts such as "A Love Supreme", so take my bias into consideration. This one is accessible and melodic. I like "Blue Train" and "Giant Steps" and "Soultrane" and "Trane's Blues" all ahead of it, but "Coltrane's Sound" is more enjoyable than "Supreme" or the "Duke Ellington and John Coltrane" collaboration, or the Prestige compilation "Coltrane Plays for Lovers." It swings and sways, and in the collection it stays. This particular edition comes in cardboard rather than a plastic case, but the booklet is great...one of the best you'll find in Coltrane collecting.

The best of the Atlantics.......2004-01-31

Coltrane's Sound was recorded at the same October 1960 sessions as My Favorite Things. (Coltrane Plays the Blues also comes from these sessions.) Though it has never achieved the same popularity as MFT, in my opinion Coltrane's Sound is actually a better album! It comes from a period where Coltrane finally got a working band (McCoy Tyner, Steve Davis, Elvin Jones) together and was shifting direction away from the harmonic density of Giant Steps and "sheets of sound" toward modal improvisation and more open structures.

Coltrane was experimenting with a bunch of approaches around this time, making variety one of this album's strengths. He plays soprano saxophone on the beautiful ballad "Central Park West" (pretty rare for him -- he usually played ballads on the tenor). "Satellite" is a piano-less trio tune. "Night of a Thousand Eyes" and "Liberia" are explosive workouts which already showcase Coltrane's powerful tenor playing and his special relationship with Elvin Jones. "Equinox" has him digging deep, deep into the blues -- some of Coltrane's finest, most powerful blues playing this side of "Chasin' the Trane". Throughout this album, his playing is overflowing with ideas.

The Atlantic recordings contain some of John Coltrane's best, most accessible, and most focused music. If you've already heard Giant Steps and My Favorite Things (or if you haven't), don't hesitate to pick up Coltrane's Sound.

Coltrane's Most Underrated.......2003-10-23

This is Coltrane's most underrated album and my personal favorite. Of course to say it is better then say A Love Supreme is not important. It's like saying is Beethoven's 9th better than his 3rd -- both are masterpieces and it is a matter of personal taste.
But where the comparison ends is that for some reason this album was never given that much recognition. Maybe it was overshadowed by Giant Steps, which might have been considered more innovative at the time.

To me, "Coltrane's Sound" has a simplicity with depth and subtly. For example Equinox. There is a deep elagance, (like Kind Of Blue). Listen to Trane's nuances on this one. (Have you ever heard someone cover Equinox? then you can appreciate how masterfull this performance is. To me, it is much harder to perform a simple minor blues and make it mean something, then than one with the more complex changes of say Giant Steps.)

Body and Soul rivals Lester Young's. Central Park West is one of the great ballads ever written. (Also check out After The Rain, not on this record --another classic ballad of Trane's.). All tracks are strong and the bonus tracks are excellent.

This one is a must.

Music CD:

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Frustrated by Death ~ Lil' Sin Featuring C-Ordell

Always Got Tonight ~ Chris Isaak

Forget Myself Pt.1 ~ Elbow

Growing Out of It ~ Lucky Boys Confusion

Mysteries of Science ~ Mysteries of Science

Harvest Years 1969-1972 ~ Climax Blues Band

Hit ~ Peter Gabriel

Giver ~ David Knopfler

Luke's Peep Show ~ Various Artists

Top Dog ~ Ant D & Puppies