Special Edition 180-Gram LP on Opaque Blue with Black Swirls
Vinyl Limited to 1000 Copies Worldwide
On March 9, John
Coltrane's transcendent Blue Train album will be released in a limited 60th
Anniversary color vinyl LP edition by Blue Note/UMe. Limited to 1000 copies
worldwide and available exclusively from The Sound of Vinyl, the collectible
special edition presents the classic album's stereo mix on a 180-gram LP
pressed on opaque blue with black swirls vinyl.
In 1957, while still discovering his own voice on the tenor
saxophone in bands led by Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane
enlisted a band of peers to record a new album at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack,
NJ studio. With a new spirit rising, Coltrane was joined by trumpeter Lee
Morgan, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Kenny Drew, and the rhythm section
from Davis's classic '50s quintet -- bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly
Joe Jones -- to create Blue Train, a 40-minute-plus masterwork that stands as
one of the greatest jazz records of all time. Released in December 1957, Blue
Train was Coltrane's second album as leader and his sole recording under his
own name for Blue Note Records.
Coltrane went on to launch new rockets of interstellar
music, including 1959's groundbreaking Giant Steps, 1964's sublime jazz prayer
A Love Supreme, and 1966's large ensemble expedition Ascension, which sparked
the burgeoning free jazz movement. But it all started for Coltrane with Blue
Train, a pioneering five-song, blues-steeped, post-bop outing that exhilarates
with pockets of brawn and poetry, excursions of ferocity and finesse, stretches
of blazing velocity and soulful tenderness. By all measures it began as an
organic session with four spirited Trane originals and a gorgeous rendition of
the Jerome Kern-Johnny Mercer ballad, "I'm Old Fashioned." Graced by
the incantations of inspired improvisation, Blue Train yielded a transcendence
that few recordings achieve. Coltrane himself recognized the consummate
character of Blue Train, referring to it later in his career as one of his
favorite recordings.
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