Coltrane's sound
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| Studio album by John Coltrane | ||||
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Publication |
June 1964 |
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| Label (s) | Atlantic Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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running time |
38:18 |
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Studio (s) |
Atlantic Studios, New York City |
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Coltrane's Sound is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane released in 1964 on Atlantic Records .
History of origin
The album was recorded on October 24th and 26th, 1960 at Atlantic Studios in New York City with the participation of pianist McCoy Tyner , bassist Steve Davis and drummer Elvin Jones . The producer was Nesuhi Ertegün . The material for the album was created simultaneously with My Favorite Things (released 1961) and Coltrane Plays the Blues (1962). The album wasn't released until four years later, when Coltrane was already on Impulse! Records was changed. The album contains four original compositions as well as the jazz standards The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Body and Soul .
Track list
A side
- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes ( Buddy Bernier , Jerry Brainin ) - 6:51
- Central Park West (John Coltrane) - 4:16
- Liberia (John Coltrane) - 6:53
B side
- Body and Soul ( Edward Heyman , Robert Sour , Frank Eyton , Johnny Green ) - 5:40
- Equinox (John Coltrane) - 8:39
- Satellite (John Coltrane) - 5:59
Republished in 1999
The album was reissued on February 16, 1999 by Rhino Records with two bonus tracks as part of the Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Gallery . This CD version has been remastered .
- 26-2 (John Coltrane) - 6:17
- Body and Soul (alternate take) - 5:58
reception
The critics Richard Cook & Brian Morton gave the album the highest rating in the Penguin Guide to Jazz . Coltrane's Sound has a darker sound than My Favorite Things , which is particularly evident in Liberia ; Coltrane's playing on the soprano saxophone in Central Park West , which is otherwise a feature for McCoy Tyner, should be emphasized , as well as the standards The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Body and Soul .
In the opinion of Coltrane biographers Filtgen and Auserbauer, the album marks “the conclusion of Coltrane's functionally harmonious playing style [...] Once again, Coltrane practices playing with harmoniously complex textures. His improvisations, however, are already much more free and independent than on Giant Steps and give a premonition of his future direction ”. For the authors, Coltrane's Sound is "a good, inspired record that has wrongly not reached the level of awareness of Giant Steps and Olé [...]."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coltrane's Sound at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 5, 2013.
- ↑ a b Douglas Payne: CD / LP / Track Review: John Coltrane: Coltrane's Sound. All About Jazz, January 3, 1999, accessed March 5, 2013 .
- ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 , p. 314.
- ↑ cf. Gerd Filtgen / Michael Auserbauer, John Coltrane, Schaftlach, Oreos 1989, p. 152 f.