John Coltrane

Artist:  John Coltrane
Birth Name:   John William Coltrane
Born:  September 23, 1926, Hamlet, North Carolina, USA.
Died:  July 17, 1967 (Aged 40),  Huntington, New York, USA.
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Bandleader
Instruments:  Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone.

John Coltrane was an American Jazz Saxophonist and Composer.  He played in style of Bebop and Hard Bop and helped pioneer the use of the modes in Jazz and was later at the forefront of Free Jazz.  He also appeared as a sideman on many album by other musicians, including Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.  His best known and best-selling albums Blue Train i 1958 and A Love Supreme in 1964.






















Title:  Blue Train (1957)
Label:  Blue Note
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz

Label:  Blue Note

Rating:  *****

Tracks:

1.  Blue Train   (10:43)
2.  Moment's Notice   (9:10)
3.  Locomotion   (7:14)
4.  I'm Old Fashioned   (7:58)
5.  Lazy Bird   (7:00)


Personnel:

John Coltrane:   Tenor Saxophone
Lee Morgan:       Trumpet
Paul Chambers:  Double Bass
Kenny Drew:       Piano
Curtis Fuller:       Trombone
Philly Joe Jones: Drums


Blue Train is a Hard Bop Jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded on September 15, 1957, at the Van Gelder Studio, and released in 1958, considered Coltrane's first solo album and all of the compositions were written by Coltrane, except  "I'm Old Fashioned", by Jerome Kern/Johnny Mercer.  Remastered and reissued on August 5, 2003 by Blue Note Records,  featuring Lee Morgan, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, Curtis Fuller and Philly Joe Jones.