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:   Coltrane (180 gm Vinyl)  (2020)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Label:  Not Now Music
Rating:   *****

Format:   LP:

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Bakai  (8:44)
 2.  Violets For Your Furs  (6:18)
 3.  Time Wa  (7:31)

Side Two:

 1.  Straight Street  (6:21)
 2.  While My Lady Sleeps  (4:44)
 3.  Chronic Blues  (8:12)

Personnel:

John Coltrane:  Tenor Saxophone
Johnnie Splawn:  Trumpet on "Bakai", "Straight Street" "While My Lady Sleeps". "Chronic Blues"
Sahib Shihab:  Baritone Saxophone on "Bakai". "Straight Street", "Chronic Blues"
Red Garlard:  Piano on Side One
Mal Waldron:  Piano on Side Two
Paul Chambers:  Bass
Albert "Tootie" Heath:  Drums

Coltrane is an album by John Coltrane, originally released on October 1957 by Prestige Records, remastered and reissued on February 14, 2020 by Not Now Music, featuring Johnnie Splawn, Sahib Shihab, Red Garlard, Mal Waldron, Paul Chambers, and Albert "Tootie" Heath.