Blue Train [10 CD Wallet Box] by John Coltrane (CD, Jun-2008, Membran)

Album Features
UPC:	4011222318770
Artist:	John Coltrane
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2008
Record Label:	Membran
Genre:	Jazz Instrument, Saxophone

Track Listing
1. On It
2. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
3. Weeja
4. Avalon
5. Tenor Madness
6. Tenor Conclave
7. Bobs Boys
8. Just You, Just Me
9. How Deep Is the Ocean?
10. Soultrane
11. Gnid
12. Mating Call
13. On a Misty Night
14. Romas
15. Super Jet
16. Interplay
17. Soul Eyes
18. Anatomy
19. Light Blue
20. C.T.A.
21. Solacium
22. Tommy's Time
23. Minor Mishap
24. Witches Pit
25. Marys Blues
26. Cat Walk
27. Route Four
28. Dakar
29. Velvet Scene
30. Potpourri
31. Dont Explain
32. Falling in Love with Love
33. J.M.S. Dream Doll
34. Chronic Blues
35. Bakai
36. While My Lady Sleeps
37. Time Was
38. Slowtrane
39. I Hear a Rhapsody
40. Violets for Your Furs
41. Tranes Slo Blues
42. Like Someone in Love
43. I Love You
44. Monks Mood
45. Trinkle, Tinkle
46. Nutty
47. Blue Train
48. Moments Notice
49. Locomotion
50. I'm Old Fashioned
51. Lazy Bird
52. Dealin [Take 1]
53. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
54. Wheelin' [Take 1]
55. Robbin's Nest
56. Dealin' [Take 2]
57. Wheelin' [Take 2]
58. Slow Dance
59. Soft Lights and Sweet Music
60. Traneing In
61. You Leave Me Breathless
62. Bass Blues
63. Woodyn You
64. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
65. They Cant Take That Away from Me
66. Our Delight
67. Monk's Mood
68. Evidence
69. Crepuscule with Nellie
70. Nutty
71. Epistrophy
72. Bye-Ya
73. Sweet and Lovely
74. Blue Monk
75. Epistrophy [Incomplete]

Details
Contributing Artists:	Mal Waldron, Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Art Taylor, Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Burrell, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, Pepper Adams, Red Garland, Lee Morgan, Gene Ammons
Distributor:	Membran International (Di
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Curtis Fuller (trombone); Kenny Drew (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); Philly Joe Jones (drums).Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on September 15, 1957. Originally released on Blue Note (81577). Includes liner notes by Robert Levin and Bob Blumenthal.This Enhanced-CD version of BLUE TRAIN features audio tracks from BLUE TRAIN, interviews with jazz musicians (including Curtis Fuller, who played trombone on BLUE TRAIN), still pictures and video clips from the period, and a multimedia biography of Coltrane.Personnel includes: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Curtis Fuller (trombone); Kenny Drew (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); "Philly" Joe Jones (drums).Producer: Alfred Lion.Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey. Includes liner notes by Michael Cuscuna.Digitally remastered by Ron McMaster.Personnel: John Coltrane (alto & tenor saxophones); Gene Ammons, Paul Quinichette (tenor saxophone); Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone); Donald Byrd (trumpet); Jerome Richardson (flute); Tommy Flanagan, Red Garland, Mal Waldron (piano); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Paul Chambers, George Joyner, Earl May (bass); Jimmy Cobb, Arthur Taylor (drums).Producer: Bob Weinstock.Compilation producer: Ed Michel.Recorded at the Ven Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey between August 16, 1957 and May 23, 1958. Includes liner notes by Stuart Kremsky.Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1996, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).Recorded in 1957, BLUE TRAIN is considered by the artist himself to be his finest work. In the mid-50's, Trane played with Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk, and he used the experience to propel himself to new heights of improvisational hard bop. The elements that comprise BLUE TRAIN would come to influence every generation of musicians that followed.The bluesy title track kicks in with an extended Coltrane tenor sax solo. Four years later Coltrane would also adopt soprano sax into his fold. This leads into solos by Lee Morgan on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Kenny Drew on piano and Paul Chambers brings it home on the bass. Philly Joe Jones keeps the beat impeccably throughout, with a slight shuffle. "Moment's Notice" quickens the pace and showcases Jones' more intricate drumming. "Locomotion" takes an almost rock 'n' roll pace with the sax and trumpet playing in perfect tandem. Coltrane then shows his diversity by taking it easy and delicate in "I'm Old Fashioned." "Lazy Bird" is an excellent mid tempo number that concludes the album.

Editorial Reviews
THE ULTIMATE BLUE TRAIN...lives up to its name.... The sound is better than on the album's previous incarnations. Previously unreleased takes of `Lazy Bird' and the title tune significantly flesh out the record of this historic session...
JazzTimes (19970901)

4 stars out of 5 - ...Coltrane's first significant release as a group leader still impresses with its uninhibited energy nearly 46 years on...
Q (20031101)