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Summary: the greatest of the greatest
Comment: 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....
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Summary: My Introduction To Jazz
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Half of the first "classic quartet" recordings.
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Have to have this in your collection
Comment: 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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Summary: Very pleasant
Comment: Good stuff here. The first track is quite famous and rightly so. There are some other standout tracks here and a few that are kind of ho-hum. Nothing's bad, but not everything is classic either.
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