Blue Train (album)
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Blue Train ( ) is a jazz - album of saxophonist John Coltrane and was established in December 1957 by Blue Note Records published.
background
Many see Blue Train as the first real Coltrane album , as Coltrane was the first to choose the musicians and pieces alone . He wrote all the compositions , except I'm Old Fashioned , a jazz standard by Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer .
Blue Train is a long, rhythmically varying piece as a brooding blues in a minor starts master tuning and during Coltrane's first solo - chorus in major transitions. Locomotion is a fast blues. Moment's Notice and Lazy Bird hint at the path of melodic and harmonic innovations that Coltrane would follow from his LP Giant Steps . Otherwise the album stuck to the prevailing hard-bop style of the time.
It remained Coltrane's only album under its own name for the traditional Blue Note label. Coltrane called it his favorite of his own in a 1960 interview . The sound of the five original pieces was revised in 1990 for publication on CD (" remastered "). 1997 came out the CD The Ultimate Blue Train , which each contained an unreleased version of Blue Train and Lazy Bird . In 2003 an SACD was released which, like a new CD edition, has been “remastered” by Rudy Van Gelder .
Cover
The cover designed by Reid Miles shows a photo by Francis Wolff .
reception
The album is considered one of the milestones in jazz. Even after decades it is a highly popular album - even if the critics rate its success differently. Lindsay Planer wrote about the album on Allmusic : "Without reservation, Blue Train can easily be regarded as one of the most important and influential recordings not only in John Coltrane's career, but in the entire genre of jazz music." Karl Lippegaus wrote: "At a distance one Half a century and against the background of the entire Coltrane discography, the long-term commercial success of Blue Train is difficult to understand. "While Richard Cook wrote:" It is not difficult to understand why this record was so successful. [...] In many ways the album is a technically perfect hard-bop record worked through to the last detail. "
Album title
On the LP, released in 1957, there are five pieces, which were digitally edited for the CD from 1990 and supplemented by two additional (alternative) takes on 'The Ultimate Blue Train' (1997) and later sound carriers :
- Blue Train - 10:43
- Moment's Notice - 9:10
- Locomotion - 7:14 am
- I'm Old Fashioned - 7:58
- Lazy Bird - 7:00
Alternate takes:
- Blue Train (alternate take) - 9:58
- Lazy Bird (alternate take) - 7:12
credentials
- Porter, Lewis. John Coltrane: His Life and Music . University of Michigan Press, 2000.
- Blue Train at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blue Note News, March 6 2018 on bluenote.com (accessed April 23, 2018)
- ^ John Coltrane: his life and music, by Lewis Porter
- ↑ The Blackwell guide to recorded jazz, by Barry Dean Kernfeld
- ↑ Blue Note Records: The Biography, by Richard Cook . books.google.de. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ↑ engl. Original text: Without reservation, Blue Train can easily be considered in and among the most important and influential entries not only of John Coltrane's career, but of the entire genre of jazz music as well .
- ^ Karl Lippegaus: John Coltrane. Biography. (Page 89) Edel, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8419-0069-2 .
- ↑ Richard Cook: Blue Note. The biography. (Page 135) Argon Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87024-599-9 .