JOHN COLTRANE WITH RED GARLAND "SOULTRANE", AP, LE, NE (#66), SO, RVG, 180G, NEW
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JOHN COLTRANE WITH RED GARLAND "SOULTRANE"
2014 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS-ULTIMATE AUDIOPHILE PRESTIGE REISSUES. SOME OF THE MOST COLLECTABLE, RAREST AND BEST SOUNDING RUDY VAN GELDER RECORDINGS EVER MADE. ALL CUT FROM THE ANALOG ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES BY KEVIN GRAY. PRESSED ON 180 GRAM VIRGIN VINYL AT STATE-OF-THE-ART PLANT QUALITY RECORD PRESSINGS AND PLATED BY GARY SALSTROM. DELUXE HIGH-GLOSS COVER.
"SOULTRANE (RECORDED JUST THREE DAYS AFTER MILESTONES WITH MILES DAVIS) IS A SHOWCASE FOR COLTRANE'S SHEETS OF SOUND STYLE, THE TERM ITSELF COINED BY CRITIC IRA GITLER IN THIS ALBUM'S LINER NOTES. ALSO FEATURED IS A LONG READING OF BILLY ECKSTINE'S BALLAD STANDARD 'I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU' WHICH COLTRANE WOULD REVISIT OFTEN DURING HIS CAREER, MOST NOTABLY ON THE ALBUM 'LIVE AT BIRDLAND'."
"THIS ALBUM CONTINUED THE REINFORCEMENT OF COLTRANE'S IMPORTANCE AS A STYLIST. AS IN "COLTRANE" AND "JOHN COLTRANE" AND THE RED GARLAND TRIO, HIS FIRST TWO ALBUMS AS A LEADER FOR PRESTIGE, THE MATERIAL IN SOULTRANE IS AWAY FROM THE ORDINARY. THE GARLAND-PAUL CHAMBERS-ARTHUR TAYLOR RHYTHM SECTION IS A PERFECT ACCOMPANYING UNIT FOR TRANE WHO, BY THIS TIME, WAS ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE-ALONG WITH SONNY ROLLINS-ONE OF THE TWO MOST INFLUENTIAL SAXOPHONISTS IN JAZZ."
"SOULTRANE OPENS WITH AN EXPLORATION AT LENGTH OF "GOOD BAIT", A TADD DAMERON-COUNT BASIE COLLABORATION, FIRST RECORDED BY DIZZY GILLESPIE IN THE 1940'S. THE WAY COLTRANE PLAYS THE TURNS IN THE MELODY GIVES IT A SLIGHT MINUET FLAVOR, COMPLIMENTED BY SOLOS BY GARLAND AND CHAMBERS IN THE SAME, SOLID GROOVE. "I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU" IS A BALLAD WRITTEN AND ORIGINALLY RECORDED BY BILLY ECKSTINE IN THE MID-1940'S. IT'S ENTIRELY NEW TO JAZZ INTERPRETATION."
"SIDE TWO OPENS WITH A JOE STEIN-LEO ROBIN TUNE, "YOU SAY YOU CARE", NEVER HEARD BEFORE THIS IN A JAZZ CONTEXT. TRANE MAKES THE MOST OF CHORD CHANGES IN A SWINGING, MEDIUM-UP SETTING. "THEME FOR ERNIE" IS A SMOLDERING BALLAD DEDICATED BY PHILADELPHIAN FREDDIE LACEY TO ERNIE HENRY, THE EX-GILLESPIE ALTO SAXOPHONIST WHO DIED SUDDENLY IN DECEMBER 1957. RED BEGINS THE FINAL TRACK "RUSSIAN LULLABY" WITH AN OUT-OF-TEMPO INTRODUCTION BEFORE COLTRANE COMES RIPPING IN. TAKING THIS AND COLTRANE'S PRIOR INTERPRETATION OF "SOFT LIGHTS AND SWEET MUSIC", IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE BOYS LIKE TO PLAY THEIR IRVING BERLIN AT HIGH VELOCITY."
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