John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays the Blues
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Artist: John ColtraneEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Blues to Elvin
- Blues to Bechet
- Blues to You
- Mr. Day
- Mr. Syms
- Mr. Knight
Music reviews of Coltrane Plays the Blues
Music Review: Mid-level Coltrane
Rating: 4 Stars
John Coltrane recorded three albums at the same time in 1960: "My Favorite Things", "Coltrane", and "Coltrane Plays The Blues". They could be roughly described as standards, originals, and blues. Unfortunately, even the blues disc is the runt of the litter. Coltrane could certainly play the blues, but this collection of blues songs doesn't gel as well as most Coltrane CD's. The unvarying bluesy nature is one problem, and the bass another. I think Steve Davis' bass playing isn't strongest on the blues. Steve Davis played hypnotic ostinatos on "My Favorite Things", did okay on "Coltrane", but sounds too simplistic and unjazzy on this disc. This disc is still an above-average jazz CD, because it's John Coltrane.
Description of Coltrane Plays the Blues
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes house in a miniature LP sleeve. 2006.The recordings here come from the same October 1960 sessions that produced My Favorite Things, and while the all-blues album is far less famous, it's an equivalent document of John Coltrane's work in his earliest recordings of the quartet with drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner. The all-blues format emphasizes Coltrane's personal relationship to the form, both his emotional depth and his capacity for harmonic extension on essentially modal materials. His soprano on "Blues to Bechet" is a summoning up of the blues form's original power, also apparent in the slow and moving "Blues to Elvin." "Blues to You," played with just Jones and bassist Steve Davis, is a hot coil of sound, Coltrane's convoluted lines twisting into new shapes while he and Jones catch every possible nuance of the beat. "Mr. Knight" would later turn into "India," but it's already a floating modal figure for his tenor. This edition includes the alternate takes previously available only in the box set The Heavyweight Champion. --Stuart Broomer
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