Coltrane's Sound

Occupation

• Saxophone: John Coltrane
• Piano: McCoy Tyner
• Bass: Steve Davis
• Drums: Elvin Jones

Coltrane 's Sound is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1964 by Atlantic Records.

Genesis

The album was recorded on 24 and 26 October 1960 in the Atlantic Studios in New York City with the participation of pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Steve Davis and drummer Elvin Jones. Producer was Nesuhi Ertegun. The material for the album was recorded simultaneously with My Favorite Things ( published in 1961 ) and Coltrane Plays the Blues ( 1962). However, the album only four years later, when Coltrane appeared already to Impulse! Records was changed. The album includes four original compositions and jazz standards The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Body and Soul.

Title list

A-side

B-side

Re-release 1999

The album was reissued on February 16, 1999 by Rhino Records with two bonus tracks as part of the Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Gallery. This CD version has been re-mastered.

Reception

The critics Richard Cook & Brian Morton gave the album in the Penguin Guide to Jazz the highest rating. Coltrane 's Sound Concerning operative on a darker tone as My Favorite Things, what tools, in particular in Liberia; worth highlighting was Coltrane's playing on the soprano saxophone in Central Park West, which is a feature of McCoy Tyner is otherwise, as well as the standards of The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Body and Soul.

According to Coltrane biographer and Filtgen Except Bauer called the album " the conclusion of Coltrane's harmonic functional way of playing [ ... ] Once again, Coltrane performs at play here over complicated harmonic textures. His improvisations are, however, already much more freely and unbound as Giant Steps and give a premonition of his future direction. " For the authors of Coltrane 's sound is " a good, inspired plate has not reached wrongly awareness of Giant Steps and Olé [ ... ]. "