Coltrane (1962 album)
Occupation
- Tenor Saxophone / Soprano Saxophone: John Coltrane
- Piano: McCoy Tyner
- Bass: Jimmy Garrison
- Drums: Elvin Jones
Coltrane is a jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey in four sessions of 11 April 1962 to September 18, 1962 and released on Impulse! Records.
The album
The LP with full titles Coltrane - The John Coltrane Quartet was the first full studio album of tenor saxophonist with his classic quartet of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones.
Most titles created in the period shortly before his collaboration with Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, AS 30 ) and the recordings for the album Ballads (AS 32 ) on which Coltrane recorded exclusively standards - material in slow and medium speed. This focus on standards is also taking place on the Coltrane album; as the only original compositions appeared on the original LP, the title " Tunji " and " Miles ' Mode " In the two April - June and three sessions took Coltrane still more pieces in order to have material to choose from; this, however, only the title "Big Nick" has been preserved as it was published at that time on the album " The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol One". As Coltrane in September 1962 recorded two tracks for the Ballads album, also called " Up ' Gainst the Wall", the first on the Impressions LP (AS 42) was published. As the most important title of the album is considered the 14-minute "Out of This World ", a composition by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, the Coltrane to his late recordings (Live in Seattle, 1965) should have in the program. " Driven by the rhythm section, Coltrane plays a solo that is ecstatic from cycle to cycle, but always identifiable with respect to the topic. Tyner solo is a little quieter, he goes out of a few lines, which he repeated in constant variations. "
It follows the harmonious refined ballad " Soul Eyes " by pianist Mal Waldron, had worked with Coltrane in his prestige era. The title is a reference less to the vocal music, but rather to "Soul " as an indicator of " be black " or " black reality ," says the author Brian Priestley After Tyner solo Coltrane blows improvisation " almost the harmonic framework, then dissolves but again surprising on the subject. "
Frank Loesser composition from 1952, " The Inch Worm " in three-four time, written for the movie Hans Christian Andersen and the dancer, is one of the jazz critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton of the most irritating songs of the album; Coltrane picks here for soprano saxophone.
It follows the slow blues " Tunji ", dedicated to the African drummer Babatunde Olatunji, with Coltrane was a friend, then " Miles ' Mode " with an extroverted playing Coltrane. Elvin Jones support with its enormous thrust the game of saxophonists.
The bonus track "Big Nick" dedicated Coltrane saxophonist Big Nick Nicholas. The second bonus track follows the musically and chronologically to the Coltrane sessions belonging " Up ' Gainst the Wall".
Album Review
Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz in her, which awarded in 1997 published edition of the album, the second- highest rating, raise particularly the importance of the title " Out of This World". Also, the All Music Guide gives the album the second highest rating.
Editorial notes
After 1997 the two tracks "Big Nick" and " Up ' Gainst the Wall" extended single CD edition, a double CD was released in 2002 with additional material, including the previously lost studio versions of " Impressions" (2 takes ), entitled " Not Yet" and alternate takes of "Miles ' Mode" and " Tunji ".
The title
The original album
- John Coltrane Quartet - Coltrane ( Impulse AS 21 )
- The Impulse album is not to be confused with the 1957 album of the same name published Coltrane (PR 7105 ), the John Coltrane had except for Prestige Records.
Re-release as a single CD
- John Coltrane Quartet - Coltrane ( Impulse IMP 12152, published 1997)
Re-release as a double CD
- John Coltrane Quartet - Coltrane ( Impulse 589 567, published in 2002 )
Disc One
Disc Two