BLUE TRAIN john coltrane CLASSIC RECORDS BLUE NOTE 1577 QUIEX SV-P SUPER VINYL
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Blue Train is a studio album by John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Blue Note Records, catalogue BLP 1577. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, it is the only Blue Note recording by Coltrane as the leader on the session. It has been certified a gold record by the RIAA
John Coltrane was arguably the greatest jazz musician of the 1950s and '60s. Blue Note Records was arguably the greatest jazz label of the same period. And yet they had almost nothing to do with each other.
Except for one album—and it's a classic.
Blue Train is one of a handful of Coltrane's best-known and best-loved works. It came in 1957, just as Coltrane was making his name with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and it features a terrific sextet. It's Coltrane's only record as a Blue Note leader, and if you love hard bop, you'll like Blue Train.
This is an album very much of its time and place. 1957 was a pretty spectacular year for jazz. It's the year of Miles Davis' Walkin,' Cookin,' Round About Midnight and Miles Ahead, [[Sonny Rollins]]' Way Out West, Ben Webster's Tenor Giants and Charles Mingus' Tijuana Moods. It's also the year of a whole bunch of great hard bop on Blue Note by Jimmy Smith, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers and others. Earlier in 1957, Coltrane even played as a sideman to Johnny Griffin, Mobley and Morgan on A Blowing Session. Blue Train can easily be considered in and among the most important and influential entries not only of John Coltrane's career, but of the entire genre of jazz music as well. In 2005 a Classic Records 200 gr. version was released remastered an super vinyl profile as part of Blue Note Series.
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