John Coltane - Blue Train - Blue Color Vinyl 180g Import

Discover new insights about jazz with enhanced liner notes written by the acclaimed jazz critic Brian Morton and Paris' prestigious jazz magazine.

All the qualities one associates with Coltrane — the iron-hard tone, the harmonic precision and freedom, the often overlooked rhythmic elasticity — are already present here, but for the moment at least, the blues is still his basic language. - PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

This album marks John Coltrane’s third recording as a leader. Though he had yet to realize many of the greatest achievements of his career, the fact that he established himself as an instrumentalist and as a composer so early and with such authority is a feat that few have accomplished. - JAZZ MAGAZINE

PERSONNEL:

• John Coltrane - (tenor saxophone)
• Lee Morgan - (trumpet)
• Curtis Fuller- (trombone)
• Kenny Drew - (piano)
• Paul Chambers - (bass)
• Philly Joe Jones- (drums)

Hackensack, New Jersey, September 15, 1957.

• (*) BONUS TRACK: Same personnel except Morgan & Fuller are omitted. Los Angeles, March 2, 1956.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1 BLUE TRAIN
• A2 MOMENT’S NOTICE
• A3 EAST BOUND (*)

• SIDE B
• B1 LOCOMOTION
• B2 I’M OLD FASHIONED
• B3 LAZY BIRD