John Coltrane

John Coltrane – Coltrane (1962/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:59 minutes | 970 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. When reissued on CD, it featured a Coltrane composition dedicated to his hero “Big Nick” Nicholas that Coltrane would record later the same year for his Duke Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. The composition “Tunji” was written by Coltrane in dedication to the Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji.
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John Coltrane – Coltrane Time (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:39 minutes | 327 MB | Genre: Jazz
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This is a most unusual LP due to the inclusion of Cecil Taylor on piano. Although Taylor and John Coltrane got along well, trumpeter Kenny Dorham (who is also on this quintet date) hated the avant-garde pianist’s playing and was clearly bothered by Taylor’s dissonant comping behind his solos. With bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Louis Hayes doing their best to ignore the discord, the group manages to perform two blues and two standards with Dorham playing strictly bop, Taylor coming up with fairly free abstractions, and Coltrane sounding somewhere in between. The results are unintentionally fascinating. – Scott Yanow
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John Coltrane – Coltrane “Live” at the Village Vanguard (1961/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:37 minutes | 383 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Fantastic unreleased work from the famous 1961 recordings of John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard – every bit as wonderful as the material that was issued on the core album! The group here is unusual in that Eric Dolphy joins them on alto and bass clarinet – alongside the piano of McCoy Tyner, bass of Reggie Workman or Jimmy Garrison and the drums of Elvin Jones –agumented on one track by Ahmed Abdul-Malik’s oud playing. The set includes “India”, “Greensleeves”, “Spiritual”, “Untitled Original”, and “Chasin’ The Trane” – all done in nice long long takes!
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John Coltrane – Blue Train: The Complete Masters (1958/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:11:29 minutes | 2,99 GB | Genre: Jazz
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On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder’s studio and created a 40+ minute masterpiece that is considered one of the greatest jazz albums of all time.

“Blue Train” is a groundbreaking blues-infused hard bop five-song excursion that intoxicates with power and poetry, ferocity and finesse, frenzy and tenderness. Celebrating the 65th anniversary of the recording, “Blue Train” is not only available in two different editions within the Tone Poet LP series, the “Complete Masters” variant also includes the original album in stereo plus alternate and incomplete previously unreleased takes on 3 CDs.
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John Coltrane – ¡OLE! Coltrane (Original Mono Version Remastered) (1961/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:45 minutes | 568 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Olé Coltrane is the ninth album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1373. The album was recorded at A&R Studios in New York, and was the last of Coltrane’s Atlantic albums to be made under his own supervision.
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John Coltrane – My Favorite Things (2022 Remaster) (1961/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:38 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Jazz
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“My Favorite Things” was released in March 1961 and was the first album on which John Coltrane played soprano saxophone in addition to his tenor saxophone. His soprano stars on two of the album’s four songs, including his unforgettable rendition of the title track, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein for the musical The Sound of Music.
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John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:48 minutes | 506 MB | Genre: Jazz
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What if John Coltrane’s Atlantic period was really his most exciting? After his great years under the Prestige and Blue Note banners, and before his fulminating recordings for Impulse!, the saxophonist would work for Ahmet Ertegun’s firm between 1959 and 1961. There, he would record four essential records which are held by some to be the quintessence of Coltrane’s art: Giant Steps (his first album made up exclusively of his own compositions) in 1960, Coltrane Jazz (his first collaboration with pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones), My Favorite Things and Ol Coltrane(with Eric Dolphy), all three released in 1961. Although he was no longer signed with Atlantic, he would nevertheless release The Avant-Garde (where he was co-leader with Don Cherry), Coltrane Plays The Blues and Coltrane’s Sound. Nine numbers from this golden age have been selected for Trane: The Atlantic Collection. Remastered and available in Hi-Res 24-bit quality, for sure they represent 46 minutes of total genius, but it is difficult and frustrating to find oneself limited to this short selection, when the rest of albums count among the most essential pages in the history of jazz. With these records, the uniqueness of Coltrane finally breaks out into broad daylight. His style, which was unique at the time – technically and harmonically – literally moulded the canons of bop and proposed a totally different road to that being taken at the time by Miles Davis with Kind Of Blue, his angular brick of modal jazz. Upon its release, a large part of the jazzosphere was more than shocked by the complexity of the creations of Coltrane and his collaborators. Today, all the music presented in Trane: The Atlantic Collection has naturally passed into the pages of history. And re-listening to it, in the fine style in which it’s presented here, is an essential service that should be provided free to all on the NHS… (more…)

John Coltrane – Ballads (1962/2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:08 minutes | 687 MB | Genre: Jazz
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A breathtaking album by the single most influential saxophone player (and perhaps jazz artist) in history. Featuring his stellar quartet of McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Jimmy Garrison, BALLADS finds Coltrane at his most pensive and lyrical. The result is one of the great jazz albums of the 20th Century. Absolutely essential. (more…)

John Coltrane – Traneing In (1958/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:52 minutes | 225 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Recorded: August 23, 1957 at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ
Remastered: 2006, Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Recorded in one day (August 23, 1957) at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Hackensack, NJ. This date of ballads and burners features the young tenor saxophonist John Coltrane leading a quartet comprised of pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Arthur Taylor.

Liner notewriter (original and reissue) Ira Gitler remarks, “In the ‘50s I was called upon to name many of the untitled songs at Prestige. Traneing In came to me because of the way [Coltrane] homed in after Garland’s opening solo [on the song].” This album is significant in that it took place halfway through Coltrane’s break with Miles Davis’ classic quintet of the ‘50s and it was the same year that the tenor saxophonist hooked up with Thelonious Monk to record the recently discovered live Carnegie Hall masterpiece. (more…)

John Coltrane – Stardust (1963/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:22 minutes | 433 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Digital booklet | © Prestige Records
Recorded: July 11, 1958 (#1, 3), December 26, 1958 (#2, 4) at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ
Remastered: 2007, Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Stardust is an album that was assembled from two different recording sessions that took place at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1958.

It’s hard to believe after hearing the eloquence of “Then I’ll Be Tired of You” or the title track, but John Coltrane’s ballad mastery was the last of his skills to receive wide appreciation. The notion that Coltrane the balladeer was as commanding as Coltrane the uptempo wizard or Coltrane the blues player finally gained acceptance in the early 60s, when this album first appeared and quickly became an important exhibit in the reconsideration.

The extended performances boast additional delights, including Paul Chambers’s arco bass on “Stardust,” Red Garland’s well-paced choruses on “Time After Time,” some of Wilbur Harden’s best trumpet work on “Love Thy Neighbor,” and Freddie Hubbard’s earliest on “Then I’ll Be Tired of You”; they were recorded at Coltrane’s final two sessions for Prestige.

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