JOHN COLTRANE Blue Train BLUE NOTE BLP 1577 RVG 1957 (NM/EX)
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JOHN COLTRANE Blue Train (NM/EX) Vinyl LP
Record label/brand: Blue Note BLP 1577 upc/mpn: None year: 1957
Blue Train was Coltrane's second solo album, the only one he recorded for Blue Note as a leader, and the only one he conceived personally for the label.
Mono Blue Note jazz classic. New York Address. Circled "R" beneath the NOTE. RVG in the dead wax. Record cover in absolutely beautiful condition. Sharp corners, high gloss and nice clean, white back cover. I rarely see an album this old with as nice a cover... I rate it a Near Mint (my highest rating for an unsealed LP). Vinyl is also beautiful... a VERY strong Excellent.
Songs:
Side 1 1. Blue Train 2. Moment's Notice
Side 2 3. Locomotion 4. I'm Old Fashioned 5. Lazy Bird
Review: The tenor sax giant had signed with another label when he embarked on this one-off date for Blue Note, an excursion that paid off with an enduring modern jazz masterpiece. Boasting volley after volley of smart soloing and intuitively swinging rhythm work, Blue Train is a joy, from the coolly precise ensemble entry on the opening title piece through the set's balance of elegant hard bop conversations and smooth downshifts into ballads.
John Coltrane wrote four originals for the date, all of them now regarded as standards, and assembled a rhythm section including pianist Kenny Drew, Miles Davis's rhythm section of bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones, and trumpeter Lee Morgan and trombonist Curtis Fuller, both recent Blue Note recruits. Coltrane's signature sound, now fully developed but still hewing more to familiar blues and chromatic harmonies than his later modalities, is confident and expansive, and his partners respond vividly throughout. ~ Amazon
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