Coltrane (1962 album)

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Coltrane
Studio album by
John Coltrane
ReleasedJuly 1962 (1962-07)[nb 1]
RecordedApril 11, June 19, 20, and 29, 1962
StudioVan Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
GenreModal jazz
Length39:55
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
John Coltrane chronology
Coltrane Plays the Blues
(1962) 		Coltrane
(1962) 		Standard Coltrane
(1962)

Coltrane is a studio album by jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer

"Big Nick" Nicholas that the saxophonist recorded for his Duke Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1963). The composition "Tunji" was written by Coltrane in dedication to the Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji
.

Release

The album's original

Down Beat."[3]

In 2002, Impulse! reissued Coltrane as a two-CD deluxe edition with the disclaimer that it used "second-generation, compressed and equalized tapes of all tracks", except "Miles' Mode", whose original master was still in existence, along with bonus tracks mastered from original recordings. In 2016, the

Verve Label Group rereleased the album in commemoration of Coltrane's 90th birthday, as a 192kHz/24bit digital download.[3]

Critical reception and analysis

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Tom Hull – on the Web
A−[10]

According to Werlin, "The music of Coltrane is modal jazz, but far from the cerebral music advanced by George Russell or the comparatively restrained work by the Miles Davis Sextet on Kind of Blue." Ultimately, Werlin regards the album as a "major" work of Coltrane and his quartet.[3] AllMusic's Michael G. Nastos calls the album "a most focused effort, a relatively popular session to both [Coltrane's] fans or latecomers, with five selections that are brilliantly conceived and rendered."[4] He found Coltrane "simply masterful" on tenor saxophone with a "fully formed instrumental voice" that "shine[s] through in the most illuminating manner", and wrote of the album's standing in his catalog:

Even more than any platitudes one can heap on this extraordinary recording, it historically falls between the albums Olé Coltrane and Impressions — completing a triad of studio efforts that are as definitive as anything Coltrane ever produced, and highly representative of him in his prime.[4]

Francis Davis of

three-quarter time novelty hit" "The Inch Worm", consumers should buy the album for "the gorgeous 'Soul Eyes' and a shattering 'Out of This World'."[11]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 14:06
  2. "Soul Eyes" (Mal Waldron) – 5:26

Side Two

  1. "The Inch Worm" (Frank Loesser) – 6:19
  2. "Tunji" (Coltrane) – 6:33
  3. "Miles' Mode" (Coltrane) – 7:31
  • Both sides were combined as tracks 1–5 on the CD reissue.

1997 CD bonus tracks

  2. "Big Nick" (Coltrane) – 4:04
  3. "Up 'Gainst The Wall" (Coltrane) – 3:13

2002 deluxe edition

Disc One

  1. "Out of This World" – 14:04
  2. "Soul Eyes" – 5:25
  3. "The Inch Worm" – 6:14
  4. "Tunji" – 6:32
  5. "Miles' Mode" – 7:31

Disc Two

  1. "Not Yet" (Tyner) – 6:13
  2. "Miles' Mode" – 7:08
  3. "Tunji" – 10:41
  4. "Tunji" – 7:55
  5. "Tunji" – 7:16
  6. "Tunji" – 7:48
  7. "Impressions" (Coltrane) – 6:32
  8. "Impressions" – 4:33
  9. "Big Nick" – 4:28
  10. "Up 'Gainst the Wall" – 3:15

Personnel

Technical

Notes

  1. Cash Box under the banner of "July Album Releases";[1] Routledge's The John Coltrane Reference (2013) lists the release date as c. August 1962.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Editorial Staff, Cash Box (July 21, 1962). "July Album Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  2. ^
    ISBN 9780415634632
    . Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Werlin, Mark (October 12, 2016). "John Coltrane: Coltrane And Crescent—Shadows And Light". All About Jazz. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  4. ^
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved on 2010-10-05.
  5. Down Beat
    : October 11, 1962 vol. 29, no. 26
  6. ISBN 978-0195313734
    .
  7. New Record Mirror. No. 113. p. 10. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  8. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0
    .
  9. ISBN 0-394-72643-X
    .
  10. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Grade List: John Coltrane". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
  11. ^ Frances Davis (2006-05-30). "The John Coltrane Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2009-10-18.

External links

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