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Coltrane Plays the Blues
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075678135125
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
MPN: 1382
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Studio: Atlantic / Wea
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Editorial Review:
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. --Stuart Broomer
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes house in a miniature LP sleeve. 2006.
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - just bluesy jazz
this is not the "esoteric" John Coltrane, like you would hear on "Interstellar Space" or other mid 1960's avant garde type offerings from the master, these are 1960 recordings, made at the same time as "My Favorite Things" (the contrast between those two albums is quite interesting). It is sparse, straight-ahead jazz with a blues tinge to it. Great accompaniment by elvin Jones and Mcoy Tyner, two mainstays from later Coltrane albums.
Rating: - Essential Piece of the Oct 1960 Favorite Things, Coltrane's Sound, Coltrane Plays the Blues Hat Trick
Until recently I had been hesitant to pickup Coltrane's Atlantic releases. Oh sure, I had Giant Steps and My Favorite things but I'd always been more interested in his Impulse releases, including the "difficult" offerings such as Mediations. I'm a musician, what can I say, musicians like to hear one another stretching the limits. Anyway, I came back to the Atlantic stuff by way of my impressive Miles Davis collection but that's a whole other story... see my other reviews if you are curious. At ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't miss this one
He's good at it, too. Not what you're used to hearing from John Coltrane, but that doesn't make it bad by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, Coltrane could make an entire career of playing music like this. "Blues to Elvin" is a swingin' good time, "Blues to Brechet" features Trane playing soprano sax, which is always excellent; and "Mr. Syms" has the best melody on the album, as well as a fine piano solo; "Mr. Knight" gives Coltrane a lot of room to stretch out on that tenor sax, and he makes ... Read More
Rating: - Great CD, well delivered
I'm very happy with this transaction. The supplier did a fine job, and John Coltraine did, too. Very satisfied.
Rating: - The blues is a large universe
John Coltrane has a reputation as a fearless pusher at the boundaries of jazz, but he was also one of the great blues players in jazz. Hence it's not surprising that he released an entire album of blues compositions. In lesser hands, this could have turned into an exercise in monotony; but the six compositions on Coltrane Plays the Blues are wildly diverse, keeping things exciting the whole way through. He plays tenor sax on four tunes and his then-new soprano on two. McCoy Tyner sits out on a ... Read More
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