Coltrane (1962 album)



Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. When reissued on CD, it featured a Coltrane composition dedicated to his hero "Big Nick" Nicholaswhich Coltrane would record later the same year with his Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane.



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[hide]  *1 Critical reception  ==Critical reception[edit] == Allmusic's Michael G. Nastos gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a most focused effort, a relatively popular session to both his fans or latecomers, with five selections that are brilliantly conceived and rendered."[1]  He found Coltrane "simply masterful" on tenor saxophone with a "fully formed instrumental voice" that "shine[s] through in the most illuminating manner", and wrote of the album's standing in his catalog: Even more than any platitudes one can heap on this extraordinary recording, it historically falls between the albums Olé Coltrane and Impressions — completing a triad of studio efforts that are as definitive as anything Coltrane ever produced, and highly representative of him in his prime.[1] Francis Davis of The Village Voice felt that, apart from the "modal, three-quarter time novelty hit" "The Inch Worm", consumers should buy the album for "the gorgeous 'Soul Eyes' and a shattering 'Out of This World'".[2] ==Track listing[edit] == ===Original LP[edit] === Bonus tracks on 1997 CD reissue (IMPD-215):
 * 2 Track listing
 * 2.1 Original LP
 * 2.2 2002 deluxe edition
 * 3 Personnel
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links
 * 1) "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen) — 14:06
 * 2) *Johnny Mercer wrote lyrics for this song, but this recording is instrumental
 * 3) "Soul Eyes" (Mal Waldron) — 5:26
 * 4) "The Inch Worm" (Frank Loesser) — 6:19
 * 5) "Tunji" ( Coltrane) — 6:33
 * 6) "Miles' Mode" (Coltrane) — 7:31

''Tracks 1-2 recorded on June 19, 1962; #3, 6 on April 11; #4 on June 29; #5 on June 20; #7 on September 18, 1962. Bonus track "Not Yet" recorded on June 20 of the same year.'' ===2002 deluxe edition[edit] === Disc One
 * 1) "Big Nick" (Coltrane) — 4:04
 * 2) "Up 'Gainst The Wall" (Coltrane) — 3:13

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 * 1) "Out of This World"  — 14:04
 * 2) "Soul Eyes"  — 5:25
 * 3) "The Inch Worm"  — 6:14
 * 4) "Tunji"  — 6:32
 * 5) "Miles' Mode"  — 7:31

==Personnel<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:'HelveticaNeue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[edit] ==
 * 1) "Not Yet" (Tyner) — 6:13
 * 2) "Miles' Mode" — 7:08
 * 3) "Tunji" — 10:41
 * 4) "Tunji" — 7:55
 * 5) "Tunji" — 7:16
 * 6) "Tunji" — 7:48
 * 7) "Impressions" (Coltrane) — 6:32
 * 8) "Impressions" — 4:33
 * 9) "Big Nick"  — 4:28
 * 10) "Up 'Gainst the Wall"  — 3:15
 * John Coltrane — tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
 * McCoy Tyner — piano
 * Jimmy Garrison — bass
 * Elvin Jones — drums
 * Pete Turner - photography