John Coltrane – Blue Train - LP Vinyl Record 12" - NEW Sealed Mint - Jazz
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John Coltrane – Blue Train
Vinyl 12" LP - New, Mint (Sealed)
Blue Train is a studio album by John Coltrane which was released in January 1958 by Blue Note Records. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, it is the only Blue Note recording by Coltrane as session leader. It has been certified a gold record by the RIAA.
The album was recorded in the midst of Coltrane's residency at the Five Spot as a member of the Thelonious Monk quartet. The personnel include Coltrane's Miles Davis bandmates, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums, both of whom had worked before with pianist Kenny Drew. Both trumpeter Lee Morgan and trombonist Curtis Fuller were up-and-coming jazz musicians, and both were members of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in due course.
Unlike his previous label, Blue Note paid the musicians to rehearse the music for a couple of days before the recording session.[10] All of the compositions were written by Coltrane, with the exception of the standard "I'm Old Fashioned". Though at this point his compositions used conventional diatonic harmonies, they were set in unconventional ways.
The title track is a bluesy song with a quasi-minor (Eb7#9) theme. "Locomotion" is also a blues riff tune, in forty-four-bar form.[12] "Lazy Bird" is in part a transposition into the key of "G" of the Tadd Dameron composition "Lady Bird".
Coltrane's playing exhibits the move toward what would become his signature style. His solos are more harmonic or "vertical" and lines arpeggiated. His timing was often apart from or over the beat, rather than playing on or behind it.[10] During a 1960 interview, Coltrane described Blue Train as his favorite album of his own up to that point.
Michael Cuscuna, the reissue producer at Blue Note had this to say from Joe Vella's podcast "Traneumentary": "We’re listening to Blue Train, which to me is one of the most beautiful pieces on one of the most beautiful records that Coltrane recorded in the fifties. It’s his first real mature statement and he wrote all but one of the tunes on this album which was very rare in the fifties and each one is a gem, particularly the title tune Blue Train. And while it’s kind of easy to play the blues, this has a suspended and haunting kind of quality to it."
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Track List:
1. Blue Train 10:44 2. Moment's Notice 9:11 3. East Bound 4:25 4. Locomotion 7:14 5. I'm Old Fashioned 7:58 6. Lazy Bird 7:06
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