Coltrane's Sound

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

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075678135828
EAN: 0075678135828
ASIN: B000002I5I

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Essential John Coltrane CDs (chronological order)
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Coltrane: My Favorite Things
Trane Times

Tracks:

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

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Customer Reviews:

Coltrane.......2006-11-16

This album changed my life.

The entire band play from their hearts and the sound of the recording is beautiful. Coltrane sounds as fresh as ever and is still miles ahead (haha) today.

Every track on the album is a classic.
I own many many Coltrane albums and i would put this as my favourite and one of my favourite albums of all time along with john scofield trio 'enroute' and kenny garett's 'pursuance' among a plethora of others..

Wow.......2006-07-14

I thank God that I stumbled across this album. You never hear it talked about, even amongst coltrane lovers, but there is no doubt that it should be mentioned in the same class as My Favorite Things, Giant Steps, and A Love Supreme. Single handedly, the best Body and Soul ever recorded, and that is putting it up against some great versions. In terms of style, this fits right between My favorite things, and Giant steps, but leaning more toward My favorite things. Before buying this album I thought I had heard all of the best recorded Coltrane, but boy was I wrong.

Modal Jazz, Ballads and Hard Bop.......2004-04-01

This recording was released in 1960 and that was a major year for John. He released "My Favorite Things" the same year, where he introduced modal improvisation, exotic scales and extended jams. That was his first major avant-garde jazz record, but the journey starts on Coltrane's Sound. Before Coltrane's Sound, John had established himself as the greatest hard bop tenor saxophonist in the world (along with Sonny Rollins), but at some point he got interested in more sophistication and experimentation. Coltrane's Sound is the perfect mix of ballads, hard bop and modal jazz. His 'free jazz' approach had yet to be invented, but some of his runs and especially McCoy Tyner's chordal progressions hints that he is an mood for a change..

My favorite Coltrane album.......2004-02-11

This album is the perfect rebuttal to the folks who think Trane was harsh and unmusical; it contains some of his loveliest playing. "Body and Soul" is one of his best treatments of standard ballads, giving an already first-rate song added depth with his somber, dry tone.

"Equinox" is on the short list for songs to play at my funeral (along with Oliver Nelson's "Stolen Moments"). This also has one of my favorite McCoy Tyner solos.

True, the cover art is dreadful, but it's easier to fix that with a CD than with the album I bought in, oh, 1962. I've been listening to it ever since and never get tired of it. Trust us (everyone else is a five-star reviewer, too): click on that order button now. This is essential.

Coltrane's bop album.......2001-01-21

This album is like many Coltrane albums palpably in transition between styles. It follows on from the experiments with dense, irregularly moving chord changes of _Giant Steps_, and also contains a couple reharmonized standards, "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" and "Body and Soul", which have areas of sustained modal exploration in the manner of "My Favourite Things". The band is the first edition of the "classic" Coltrane band, with Steve Davis on bass before Jimmy Garrison hopped on board.

What's most unusual about this album, perhaps, is that it's actually Coltrane's meditation on the bop heritage. Only one tune is completely original, the lovely ballad "Central Park West" (one of my favourite Coltrane tracks; he only states the melody, leaving the improvisation to Tyner, but it's so rounded a statement that like Monk's "Crepuscule with Nellie" it doesn't really need elaboration at all). The other tunes rework standard bop fare via the techniques of movement in thirds and pedal notes that obsessed Coltrane in this period. "Liberia" is a version of "A Night in Tunisia"; "Equinox" is a minor blues but borrows its intro from Parker's intro to "Star Eyes"; "Satellite" is a reworking of "How High the Moon"/"Ornithology"; "26-2" (a rather mysterious title) is a version of "Confirmation". The practice was of course already there on _Giant Steps_ ("Giant Steps" and "Countdown" are themselves based on standards like "Tune Up") but the concentration of such material, & the tenor sax shibboleth "Body and Soul", suggest a rather more self-conscious exploration of the tradition. (Note that Coltrane's albums otherwise rarely contain bop tunes, preferring to concentrate on pop standards when not playing originals.) The quartet's take on these tunes is dark, intense and brooding--this album is a long way from the sunny mood of _Giant Steps_ & _Coltrane Jazz_.

This disc is one of the most interesting of the Atlantics; don't be put off by the ghastly cover-art. This is music of a high order, a little less user-friendly than _My Favourite Things_ but no less important.

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