John Coltrane Soultrane(jazz)(flac)[rogercc][h33t]

JOHN COLTRANE SOULTRANE

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on February 7, 1958. Originally released on Prestige (7142)

Format: Flac



Soultrane by John Coltrane, released in 1958. Recorded shortly after the classic Blue Train, this session was apparently one of Coltrane's favourites

The album is a showcase for Coltrane's late-50s "sheets of sound" style - the term was coined by Ira Gitler in the album's liner notes. Also featured is a long reading of the ballad standard "I Want to Talk About You", which Coltrane would revisit often during the rest of his career, most notably on the album Live at Birdland. Among the other tracks are Tadd Dameron's popular theme "Good Bait" and Fred Lacey's elegiac "Theme For Ernie". "You Say You Care" is from Jule Styne's Broadway production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Throughout, Coltrane is backed by the Red Garland Trio - a modified version of Miles Davis's 1956-1957 rhythm section, with Art Taylor instead of Philly Joe Jones on drums.

The album closes with a brief, improbably frenetic version of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby". Porter's book quotes producer Bob Weinstock on Coltrane's humorous re imagining of the tune:

We were doing a session and we were hung for a tune and I said, "Trane, why don't you think up some old standard?" He said, "OK I got it.[">...and they played "Russian Lullaby" at a real fast tempo. At the end I asked, "Trane, what was the name of that tune?" And he said, "Rushin' Lullaby." I cracked up.

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Personnel

John Coltrane - tenor saxophone

Paul Chambers - bass

Red Garland - piano

Art Taylor - drums



Track listing

1>"Good Bait" (12:08)

2>"I Want to Talk About You" (10:53)

3>"You Say You Care" (6:16)

4>"Theme for Ernie" (4:57)

5>"Russian Lullaby" (5:33)