Heavy hitters are all we're going to be posting. Here's some classic 'Trane.
From Michael Fremer:
Why such interest in this album? Musically, it’s understandable: Coltrane, backed by Red Garland’s nimble trio, stretches out on 5 tunes and steps out from whatever shadow Sonny Rollins might have previously cast on his originality. Garland’s trio provides a bracing backdrop for both Coltrane’s ballad lyricism and hard-bop muscularity.
The opener, “Good Bait,” a catchy tune written by Todd Dameron and Count Basie, and first recorded by Dizzy Gillespie, gets nimbly stretched and pulled apart in Coltrane’s darting, swooping solos. Garland’s first solo fingerings get as close to producing a continuous piano glissando as you’re likely to hear, and Paul Chambers follows with a rubbery, good humored turn. This is jazz of the exuberant, brawny variety, not requiring intellectual analysis to appreciate.
The slow moving ballads, “ I Want to Talk About You,” and “Theme For Ernie,” allow Coltrane to extract richer, breathier and more rounded tones from his instrument. Sax lovers will revel in the pure full sound Coltrane gets on these laid back grooves. For sheer excitement though, the bracing pace of the set’s finale, Irving Berlin’s “Russian Lullaby,” can’t be beat. After a slack-tempo Garland intro, the quartet launches the tune as if from a rocket sled, with Coltrane jumping all over the melody The thick sonic curlicues Coltrane produced, inspired music critic Ira Gitler to invent the term “sheets of sound,” to describe Coltrane’s emerging technique.
Soon after this session, Coltrane would go into the studio with Miles Davis and make his contribution to the modal masterpiece Kind of Blue. Conceptually, there’s nothing here as earth-shattering as that, but the playing is superb and it was Coltrane’s launch pad for the monumental explorations that would soon come.
Sonically, this is not a particularly distinguished recording, though it does have some notable qualities. Coltrane’s out-front sax is fairly well-recorded (though there is some distortion on the opening track), with a juicy, three-dimensional quality and a nice balance of reed and brass. Chambers’s bass has decent weight and body, and Arthur Taylor’s drum kit is cleanly rendered. The usual Van Gelder boxy piano of the era asserts itself though, bringing the sonic picture down a few notches. What really saves the day sonically, is the purity and simplicity of the recording. Despite the shortcomings, musical intimacy is maintained, and with so little between the mics and your ears, it’s an exciting step back in time
Technical Information:
Artist: John Coltrane
Album: Soultrane (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)
Year: 1958/2006
Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: split tracks + .cue
Avg. bitrate: 932 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 265 MB
Length: 0:39:49
Tracklisting:
01. Good Bait (12:08)
02. I Want to Talk About You (10:53)
03. You Say You Care (6:17)
04. Theme for Ernie (4:58)
05. Russian Lullaby (5:33)
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