Coltrane Plays the Blues
- Saxophone: John Coltrane
- Piano: McCoy Tyner
- Bass: Steve Davis
- Drums: Elvin Jones
Coltrane Plays the Blues is a jazz album by musician John Coltrane, released in 1962 by Atlantic Records. Except Coltrane playing McCoy Tyner, Steve Davis and Elvin Jones.
The album: the history and substance
The album was recorded in the afternoon and evening of October 24, 1960, three days after the recordings for the successful album My Favorite Things began; during the same recording session was also the (later released ) album Coltrane 's Sound and the jazz standard Summertime for My Favorite Things. Producer was Nesuhi Ertegun; Sound engineer in the Atlantic Studios was Tom Dowd.
The album contains some blues compositions; Blues to Elvin " is a slow, earthy blues ". According to Filtgen / Bauer Except you realize Coltrane's solo " his apprenticeship with King Kolax and Eddie Vinson at his improvisation engages sent clichés and standard phrases on, to make them sent to a coherent whole. "
The slow tracks Blues to Bechet Sidney Bechet is dedicated; Coltrane plays piano in this loose piece soprano and thus " a tribute to the great soprano saxophonists in jazz first [ ... ] Coltrane does not play it with the voluminous virbrierenden sound of Sidney Bechet, but sharp and cutting ."
Blues to You is more up-tempo played as the last song and offers the Coltrane biographer Gerd Filtgen and Michael addition to Bauer 's view, " a premonition of Chasin 'the Trane " from 1961. Coltrane play " here has those strange lines from 1961 should become his trademark "Mr. Day is a blues with a complex harmonic scheme and an ostinato bass figure. ; Mr. Syms is played at a slower pace, but harmonically complex than the normal blues form. After Coltrane, a chorus, improvisation and then played the theme, the theme, McCoy Tyner on piano has a largely chordal solo (...) with single-note lines. As Mr. Day unfolds Mr. Knight over a bass ostinato figure.
Title list
CD edition
In 2000, Rhino Records has brought out the plate as part of the Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Gallery series on CD. The sound was changed by remastering. As a bonus, several alternate takes from the recording session and an untitled composition were given, had been against the initially decided.
7 Untitled Original ( Exotica ) ( John Coltrane ) 5:22 8 Blues to Elvin ( alternate take 1 ) ( Elvin Jones ) 11:00 9 Blues to Elvin ( alternate take 3 ) ( Elvin Jones) 5:59 10 Blues to You ( alternate take 1 ) ( John Coltrane ) 5:35 11 Blues to You ( alternate take 2) ( John Coltrane ) 5:36
Reviews
The album comes from one of great jazz quartets. Allmusic gave the album four and a half ( out of five) stars.
When Coltrane plays the blues we reach at once the most mature and the most instinctive form of this meeting in between traditional jazz and the avant garde compositional tendencies of the.
According to Coltrane biographer and Filtgen Except Bauer " Coltrane demonstrated new ways to renew the traditional scheme of blues and modernize. "