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Coltrane | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Coltrane
Label: Impulse Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 344312
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 011105021517
EAN: 0011105021517
ASIN: B000003N97
Release Date: June 3, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Out of This World - John Coltrane, Arlen, Harold | | • | Soul Eyes - John Coltrane, Waldron, Mal | | • | The Inch Worm - John Coltrane, Loesser, Frank | | • | Tunji | | • | Miles' Mode | | • | Big Nick | | • | Up 'Gainst the Wall |
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Album Description
Japanese limited edition issue of the album classic in a deluxe, miniaturized LP sleeve replica of the original vinyl album artwork.
Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Okay for Coltrane means pretty good for anyone else July 22, 2008
"Coltrane" starts with "Out Of This World", a 14-minute long song which is essentially the centerpiece of the album, though it's the opening track. It's written by Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer, but it sounds like a Coltrane-penned piece. I wasn't aware of any other major jazz instrumentalists playing this song: Coltrane wasn't the first but Kenny Burrell and Donald Byrd did a version shortly after Coltrane's came out! At any rate, it's the best song on this CD. "Soul Eyes" is a good ballad. "The Inch Worm" feels too much like Coltrane is trying to recreate "My Favorite Things" for me to enjoy too much. Coltrane uses a soprano sax to play a children's song in a modal jazz manner. "Tunji" is a midtempo modal song. "Miles' Mode" is a faster-paced song which may be the second-best song on the disc.
"Coltrane" is the middle of a stretch of okay, but not great, Coltrane discs. I recommend Coltrane fans who don't have it, should get it, but only after you have the higher-profile albums first.
 the greatest of the greatest February 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's one of the greatest works of the gratest saxophonist ever exist in this world... all the disc it's a piece of art... no words can say wath coltranes eay with his tenor....
My Introduction To Jazz September 12, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
In 1984, I was a 16-year old kid who was volunteering at the local all-volunteer radio station in town. I loved my Led Zeppelin and Grateful Dead LP's and wanted to be the next Johnny Fever, so I signed up for the Tuesday 6a - 9am slot fresh out of high school.
The guy who was on Monday "overnights" was a huge jazz freak. At 5:30am on my first day, I introduced myself and he asked me what kind of music I liked. When I told him, he said, "Jerry Garcia loved John Coltrane...you ever heard of him?" I said I hadn't.
"Wait here."
He went into the library and got the LP of this recording down and played "Out Of This World." The earnestness of Coltrane's tone just grabbed me. I didn't know what he was doing from a technical standpoint, but the emotion of his playing made me take notice. I'd never heard anything like it before in my life. I stayed after my shift was over just to listen to the entire LP in one of the production studios. I found a copy of it at a used record store not long after that...my first jazz LP.
A new door was opened to me on that June morning. I've long forgotten the DJ's name who opened it for me, but I've never looked back.
Essential listening.
Sean K.
 Half of the first "classic quartet" recordings. October 18, 2005
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
It's difficult to review a John Coltrane album without taking it in context with the rest of his catalog. From his earliest studio sessions with his classic quartet (the same sessions produced "Ballads" as well), "Coltrane" is a fine album, but it just cannot hold up to what would come in the future.
Bassist Jimmy Garrison was the last piece in the band, having joined Coltrane in late 1961 after leaving Ornette Coleman's group whereas pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones had joined Trane's band a year before. By the second half of 1962 when these sessions were held, this was a finely tuned unit. The recordings are by and large adventerous hard bop-- a mix of standards and originals. The best pieces find the quartet in full flight, full of fire, with the leader taking off ("Out of This World"). But even the most explosive performance on here feels positively tame when compared to what the band was doing live (available on "Live at the Village Vanguard") or certainly what they'd do in the studio in the very near future.
As such, it's hard for me to rate this one highly-- for many musicians, this would be a peak acheivement, an album of breathtaking hard bop, but for Coltrane, it's a step on the way.
Have to have this in your collection July 19, 2003
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Simple yet complex. This is one of the best CD's the group complied. I believe this is greatest rhythm section ever formed. The artists all are craftman of the fellow instruments. Coltrane was ahead his time and this group put themselves in the history books with this CD. This was the groups debut studio CD and led to a plethora of other greats. This album is str8 to the point like the title of the CD. I mean what elsedo you need to know it's Coltrane.Peace,
Emmanuel
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