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EAN: 0077774609517 Label: Blue Note Records Manufacturer: Blue Note Records Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Tracks: 5 Publisher: Blue Note Records Release Date: April 01, 1997 Studio: Blue Note Records Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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. --Sam Sutherland Album Description: Limited edition Japanese 24-bit remastered reissue of 1957 album packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. 5 tracks. Toshiba-EMI. 2003. Album Details: 24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ONE OF THE MUST HAVES IN JAZZA true jazz classic. Don't listen to ignorant jazz haters like Isjazzmummified. For him to mention that pop soprano squeler in the same paragraph with Trane is lunacy. Buy and enjoy. Rating: - i often wonder.i have actually met people who live without this album. whenever i think about that, i shake my head in wonder. i don't know how they do it. Rating:  - I've never understood people and Trane.Coltrane can't play. I'll say it upfront: I don't understand what people think of Trane. As Jazz becomes more accepted for the great things it as an artform accomplish, we have a tendancy to remain closeminded to our true criticisms of artists and tend to flow with the masses, not ourselves. I feel this is harmful to an art as a whole. Likewise, I can't stand Coltrane. His intonation is worse than Kenny G's, his tone is biting and harsh, his solos linger on forever as dribbles of practice. ... Read More Rating: - Indispensible '50s era ColtraneNot counting his output with Miles or Monk, this is Coltranes most indispensible recording of the '50s and the only album Coltrane cut as a leader for the Blue Note label. Unlike his Prestige recordings which comprise the bulk of his work in the 1950s, Blue Train is not a loose and quickly recorded standards jam session, but an individual and more fully realized work. Coltrane composed all the music except for the Jerome Kern/Johnny Mercer standard I'm Old Fashioned, and wow, what a difference! Blue Train ... Read More Rating: - i listen to jazz cd's diffently from regular cd's...since jazz is a universe completely unto itself...i think it would be ridiculous to pick out a favorite song or songs. it's best to just listen to a jazz album as a unit. i have always loved coltarne. he ranks up with miles and billie as one of the greats of all time. even people who don't know much about jazz, know who coltane is. i was especially impressed with philly " joe " jones drumming on the cd. man, the things he can do with a pair of drumsticks. like miles, trane always had great personell working ... Read More |
