Ballads: John Coltrane (Deluxe Ed) (Bonus CD)

John Coltrane - Ballads: John Coltrane (Deluxe Ed) (Bonus CD)

Ballads: John Coltrane (Deluxe Ed) (Bonus CD)
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Artist: John Coltrane
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Say It (Over And Over Again)
  2. You Don't Know What Love Is
  3. Too Young To Go Steady
  4. All Or Nothing At All
  5. I Wish I Knew
  6. What's New?
  7. It's Easy To Remember
  8. Nancy (WithThe Laughing Face)
Music CD 2
  1. They Say It's Wonderful
  2. All Or Nothing At All
  3. Greensleeves
  4. Greensleeves
  5. Greensleeves
  6. Greensleeves
  7. Greensleeves
  8. It's Easy To Remember
  9. It's Easy To Remember
  10. It's Easy To Remember
  11. It's Easy To Remember
  12. It's Easy To Remember
  13. It's Easy To Remember
  14. It's Easy To Remember

Music reviews of Ballads: John Coltrane (Deluxe Ed) (Bonus CD)

Music Review: They are Ballads, Right?
Rating: 4 Stars

I have not heard the extra tracks yet, but a few people out there are rather critical of this album by John Coltrane as a double CD. I am a huge fan of "Trane", but since I also enjoy other types of music such as rock, blues, folk, and classical I do not have tunnel vision. Is this my favorite Coltrane album, no. Is it my least favorite Coltrane album, of course not. This is an album of ballads, i.e., standards or standards-like pieces. Yes, it is one of Coltrane's prettiest albums. The playing is solid and that is saying a lot, as this is an album by Mr. John Coltrane. For those of you that are familiar with "trane's" catalog, you know he can get very far out and far from "pretty".

Most would agree that (among) his best albums are Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, and the 1961 Village Vanguard Sessions. Ballads does not challenge you, it is just nice music. I have three copies of the album, this CD, two LPs (one original and one reissue). I don't have the extended 2CD version (yet). It is actually hard to believe that the same person recorded Ballads as Om. Like day and night. If Ballads is Earth-bound, Om is from Neptune. Like comparing the Beatles to Metallica (I love both bands, by-the-way).

One reason I am defending this album is because my late mother actually liked it. That is where the second LP copy came from. Anything that brings her to Coltrane, must be good. Her tastes basically revolved around Frank Sinatra, Barbra Striesand, Judy Garland, and some Barry Manilow, and Linda Ronstadt, you get the idea. Again I don't dislike those singers. Yet she has made some remarkable musical observations at times. She liked the sax solo in Pink Floyd's song "Us and Them", it is good, and said she thought that Jimi Hendrix had a nice voice! Liked his singing, probably did not understand his guitar playing at all. On the other had she hated the Doors. She'd have been 85 this December, to put things in context.

As you can see most reviewers like this album. That should tell you something. Yes, it can be a bit sappy but I'll take that from Coltrane over some of his noisy material that gives me a headache! John Coltrane's finest performance is probably still his playing with Miles Davis on Kind of Blue. Anyway, this is a great album for the general music lover, it just is not experimental at all -- all safe tunes. Maybe the extra versions of the same tunes is a bit much, but I don't have this 2CD version, yet. Peace.
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In 1962, John Coltrane found himself at the center of a storm of controversy, his tumultuous, searching music branded "anti-jazz" by one virulent critic. While Coltrane would continue along that exploratory path for the remaining years of his career, part of his response to the critical venom was to record some of the most sweetly lyrical music in jazz history. The LP Ballads established him as one of the great lyric players and set the tone for his collaborations with Johnny Hartman and Duke Ellington. The first CD presents the original album in all its luminous glory, the burnished, silvery sound of Coltrane's tenor meticulously remastered by the original engineer, Rudy Van Gelder. The second CD presents supplementary material from the original sessions as well as material that has only recently come to light. The classic quartet's collective concentration shows in seven complete takes of "It's Easy to Remember," testing its melody again and again until every gesture--from the flute-like tenor sound to Jimmy Garrison's bowed bass and Elvin Jones's triumphant drum crescendo at the conclusion--is sculpted to perfection. There are also several takes of the airy "Greensleeves" and a limpidly beautiful version of "They Say It's Wonderful" with Coltrane in duet with pianist McCoy Tyner. --Stuart Broomer

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