Blue Train (Album)

Occupation

Blue Train is a jazz album by John Coltrane from the year 1957.

Background

Many see Blue Train Coltrane as the first real album since Coltrane alone for the first time the musicians and pieces selected. He wrote all the compositions except I'm Old Fashioned, a jazz standard by Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer.

Blue Train is a long, rhythmically varying piece that begins as a brooding blues in a minor mood while Coltrane's first solo chorus goes in the major. Locomotion is a fast blues. Moment's Notice and Lazy Bird leave the path of melodic and harmonic innovations guessed, the Coltrane would embark on his LP Giant Steps. Otherwise, the album held firmly to the dominant hard bop style of the time.

It was the only album Coltrane under his own name for the venerable Blue Note label. Coltrane called it in an interview in 1960 his favorite own. The five original pieces were 1990 sound technology for a CD release revised ( " remastered "). 1997 CD The Ultimate Blue Train came out, each contained an unreleased version of Blue Train and Lazy Bird. 2003 SACD was published, as well as a new CD edition of Rudy Van Gelder " remastered " is.

Cover

The designed by Reid Miles cover shows a photo of Francis Wolff.

Reception

The album is regarded as one of the milestones of jazz. It is even after decades of a highly popular album - even if success is judged differently by the critics. Lindsay planners wrote about the album at Allmusic: " Without limiting the Blue Train can easily be considered one of the most important and influential recordings not only in John Coltrane's career, but in the entire genre of jazz music. " Karl Lippegaus wrote: " At a distance of a. half century and in the context of the entire Coltrane discography of commercial Langzeiterfog of Blue Train is difficult to understand " While Richard Cook wrote: " It is not difficult to understand why this record was so successful. [ ... ] The album is in many ways a perfectly crafted, worked through in detail hard-bop record. "

Album Title

On the 1957 LP are brought out five pieces on the CD from 1990 and later recordings, two additional (alternative) Takes:

  • Blue Train - 10:43
  • Moment's notice - 9:10
  • Locomotion - 7:14
  • I'm Old Fashioned - 7:58
  • Lazy Bird - 7:00

Alternate Takes:

  • Blue Train ( alternate take ) - 9:58
  • Lazy Bird ( alternate take ) - 7:12

Credentials

  • Porter, Lewis. John Coltrane: His Life and Music. University of Michigan Press, 2000.
  • Review of Blue Train at allmusic.com

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