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John Coltrane: The very Best of John Coltrane

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Artist: John Coltrane
Title: The very Best of John Coltrane
Released: 2000.05.02
Label: Atlantic Records
Time: 75:09
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Jazz
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2007.06.20
Price in €: 7,99
Web address: www.johncoltrane.com

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[1] Giant Steps (J.Coltrane) - 4:46
[2] Cousin Mary (J.Coltrane) - 5:49
[3] Naima (J.Coltrane) - 4:24
[4] Like Sonny (J.Coltrane) - 5:55
[5] My Shining Hour (Arlen/Mercer) - 4:55
[6] My Favorite Things (Hammerstein/Rodgers) - 13:46
[7] Central Park West (J.Coltrane) - 4:16
[8] Summertime (G.Gershwin/Heyward) - 11:35
[9] Mr. Syms (J.Coltrane) - 5:23
[10] Equinox (J.Coltrane) - 8:38
[11] Body and Soul (Eyton/Green/Heyman/Sour) - 5:37

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John Coltrane - Soprano & Tenor Saxophone

Paul Chambers - Bass
Jimmy Cobb - Drums
Steve Davis - Bass
Tommy Flanagan - Piano
Elvin Jones - Drums
Wynton Kelly - Piano
Art Taylor - Drums
McCoy Tyner - Piano

Nesuhi Ertegun - Producer
Patrick Milligan - Compilation Producer
Dan Hersch - Remastering
Hugh Brown - Art Direction
Shawn Amos - Editorial Coordinator
Vanessa Atkins - Editorial Supervision
Daniel Goldmark - Editorial Research
Maria Villar - Design
Adam Wade     Project Assistant
Quincy Newell - Project Assistant

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2000 CD Rhino 79778

The importance of John Coltrane as an inexhaustible, groundbreaking improviser cannot be overstated. His distinctive sound, melodic imagination and storied dedication to the craftremain an inspiration both to other saxophonists, and to later generations of jazz musicians.
These landmark sessions--a highly accessible, essential core of the Coltrane legacy--were recorded just after his bracing work with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and signaled Coltrane's emergence as a dominant and enduring musical force. He reshaped standardslike "Body & Soul" and "Summertime" into his own heady, harmonic image. The classic recording of "My Favorite Things", probably Coltrane's most popular, introduced his soaring soprano sax and had pianists scrambling to decipher McCoy Tyner's revolutionary chord voicings. Coltrane's trademark "sheets of sound" cover "Central Park West", and the Afro-Cuban bump of "Like Sonny" (a nod to tenor-titan Sonny Rollins), while other original compositions such as the highly influential "Giant Steps" present radical ideas that musicians still grapple with today.




This John Coltrane set includes key cuts from the saxophonist's 1959 and 1960 recordings for Atlantic Records and is exactly the same package as Rhino's domestic release bearing the same title. It's hard to argue with the selections, which include Coltrane's beautiful studio rendition of "My Favorite Things" (which actually got some pop station play in an edited down single version), the influential "Giant Steps" and the durable "Naima," but any album that claims to feature the "very best" of Coltrane and then doesn't touch on any of his mid-'60s work for Impulse Records is being knowingly misleading.

Steve Leggett - All Music Guide



Two factors make this collection. First, The Very Best of is from a series of recordings for the Atlantic label (1959/60). Secondly, these recordings were made in that crucial transition between the Miles Davis quintet and the seminal quartet that accompanied Coltrane in the following years. It celebrates the maestro playing originals and standards, extending their meaning far beyond the usual scope and every track is a landmark. It is fitting that this album ends with "Body and Soul" because it really speaks of and to both. From the eternal "Giant Steps" with its spirited virtuosity, we move to the gutsy, soulful portrait "Cousin Mary" then onto a luminous recording of the classic "Naima". These performances hit to the heart and their integrity remain uncompromised. On "My Favourite Things" and "Summertime", Coltrane is joined by McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones respectively, unveiling a deep fascination with the modal. Through John Coltrane's music, through his authoritative voice, through his keenly listening imagination, Jazz finds a mystical dimension. This record can change lives.

Ben Clarke - Amazon.co.uk



With his inexhaustible technique, trademark sound, and limitless imagination, tenor and soprano saxophonist John Coltrane was one of jazz's most dominant musicians. This collection covers his important Atlantic Records sessions recorded from 1959 to 1960 (chronicled in their entirety on Heavyweight Champion). The tunes signal an important transitional phase from Trane's stints with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk to his emergence as a leader in his own right. "Giant Steps" "Naima," and "Cousin Mary"--featuring pianist Tommy Flanagan and drummer Art Taylor--crystallized Trane's supersonic "sheets of sound" style. "Like Sonny," an Afro-Latin dedication to his friend and contemporary Sonny Rollins with Wynton Kelly on piano, reveals Trane's stylistic debts to Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins. His historic renditions of "My Shining Hour," "Body and Soul," "Summertime," and "My Favorite Things" highlight Coltrane's ability to remake a song into his own image, as well as introduce his influential sound on the soprano sax. These landmark recordings show the development of Coltrane's "great" quartet as well as forecast his iconoclastic excursions into the outer limits of rhythm and tonality, which grew during until his death in 1967.

Eugene Holley, Jr. - Amazon.com
 

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