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John Coltrane: Coltrane plays the Blues

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Artist: John Coltrane
Title: Coltrane plays the Blues
Released: 1960.10.24
Label: Atlantic Jazz
Time: 46:14
Producer(s): See Artists ...
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Category: Jazz
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2007:05.24
Price in €: 6,99
Web address: www.johncoltrane.com

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[1] Blues to Elvin (Jones) - 7:52
[2] Blues to Bechet (Coltrane) - 5:46
[3] Blues to You (Coltrane) - 6:30
[4] Mr. Day (Coltrane) - 7:55
[5] Mr. Syms (Coltrane) - 5:22
[6] Mr. Knight (Coltrane) - 7:39

Bonus Track for CD only:
[7] Untitled Original (Coltrane) - 5:25

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John Coltrane - Tenor & Soprano Saxophone

McCoy Tyner - Piano
Steve Davis - Bass
Elvis Jones - Drums

Bob Thiele - Producer
Richard Seidel - Compilation producer

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2004 CD Atlantic SD-1382-2
2004 CD Atlantic CS-1382
2004 CD Rhino 1382
2004 CD Rhino 8122737532

One of THE great jazz quartets of all time: Coltrane (tenor& soprano), McCoy Tyner (piano), the earth-shaking Elvin Jones (drums) and Steve Davis (bass, though 'Trane's band would most often feature Jimmy Garrison and sometimes Reggie Workman), playing a blues-inspired program of originals. This band had an empathy shared by only the best bands in jazz: the Brubeck and Miles Davis groups, the Modern Jazz Quartet--and it shows here, with warmth, confidence, economy and relaxed interplay. Coltrane is clearly centre-stage here, his distinctive tone - and soon to become one of the most influential in jazz & beyond, as this was recorded in 1960 - weavingthrough a set a of earthy yet thoughtful blues-based original compositions. The "wail" of early '60s Coltrane was in its embryonic stage here, but his playing is potent and soulful (without wearing his heart on his sleeve). A great place to begin with for The Man's post-bop/post-'50s music for the curious; fans will want it for the previously unreleased "Untitled Original".



Coltrane's sessions for Atlantic in late October 1960 were prolific, yielding the material for My Favorite Things, Coltrane Plays the Blues, and Coltrane's Sound. My Favorite Things was destined to be the most remembered and influential of these, and while Coltrane Plays the Blues is not as renowned or daring in material, it is still a powerful session. As for the phrase "plays the blues" in the title, that's not so much an indicator that the tunes are conventional blues (which they aren't). It's more indicative of a bluesy sensibility, whether he is playing muscular saxophone or, on "Blues to Bechet" and "Mr. Syms," the more unusual-sounding (at the time) soprano sax. Elvin Jones, who hadn't been in Coltrane's band long, really busts out on the quicker numbers, such as "Blues to You" and "Mr. Day." The 2000 reissue on Rhino adds five bonus tracks: two alternates apiece of "Blues to Elvin" and "Blues to You" (which were originally released on the 1995 Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings box), and "Untitled Original (Exotica)." This last track first appeared on the 1970 compilation The Coltrane Legacy and, like every other one on this CD, was recorded on October 24, 1960.

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide


The recordings here come from the same October 1960 sessions that produced My Favorite Things, and while the all-blues album is far less famous, it's an equivalent document of John Coltrane's work in his earliest recordings of the quartet with drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner. The all-blues format emphasizes Coltrane's personal relationship to the form, both his emotional depth and his capacity for harmonic extension on essentially modal materials. His soprano on "Blues to Bechet" is a summoning up of the blues form's original power, also apparent in the slow and moving "Blues to Elvin." "Blues to You," played with just Jones and bassist Steve Davis, is a hot coil of sound, Coltrane's convoluted lines twisting into new shapes while he and Jones catch every possible nuance of the beat. "Mr. Knight" would later turn into "India," but it's already a floating modal figure for his tenor. This edition includes the alternate takes previously available only in the box set The Heavyweight Champion.

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