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- Date Released: February 7, 1958
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Bebop, Classic Jazz
- Label: Fantasy / Prestige
Coltrane stretches out on a solid early album.
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We Say...
Soultrane is one of legendary tenorman John Coltrane's early albums. Coltrane stretches out here on five tunes with the fine rhythm section of pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Taylor. Even this early, all aspects of his personality can already be heard. He's ebullient on "Good Bait," double timing all the way. "I Want to Talk About You," "You Say You Care" and "Theme for Ernie" demonstrate how lyrical he could be. On the up-tempo "Russian Lullaby" he sounds shot out of a gun, tearing through the changes. Although he was to accomplish more, Coltrane was already a great tenorman in 1958.
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They Say...
In addition to being bandmates within Miles Davis' mid-'50s quintet, John Coltrane (tenor sax) and Red Garland (piano) head up a session featuring members from a concurrent version of the Red Garland Trio: Paul Chambers (bass) and Art Taylor (drums). This was the second date to feature the core of this band. A month earlier, several sides were cut that would end up on Coltrane's Lush Life album. Soultrane offers a sampling of performance styles and settings from Coltrane and crew. As with a majority of his Prestige sessions, there is a breakneck-tempo bop cover (in this case an absolute reworking of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby"), a few smoldering ballads (such as "I Want to Talk About You" and "Theme for Ernie"), as well as a mid-tempo romp ("Good Bait"). Each of these sonic textures displays a different facet of not only the musical kinship between Coltrane and Garland but in the relationship that Coltrane has with the music. The bop-heavy solos that inform "Good Bait," as well as the "sheets of sound" technique that was named for the fury in Coltrane's solos on the rendition of "Russian Lullaby" found here, contain the same intensity as the more languid and considerate phrasings displayed particularly well on "I Want to Talk About You." As time will reveal, this sort of manic contrast would become a significant attribute of Coltrane's unpredictable performance style. Not indicative of the quality of this set is the observation that, because of the astounding Coltrane solo works that both precede and follow Soultrane -- most notably Lush Life and Blue Train -- the album has perhaps not been given the exclusive attention it so deserves.
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| 01. |  |
Good Bait |
12:08 |  |
| 02. | |
I Want To Talk About You |
10:56 | |
| 03. | |
You Say You Care |
6:17 | |
| 04. | |
Theme For Ernie |
4:56 | |
| 05. | |
Russian Lullaby |
5:34 | |
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- Red Garland - Piano // Red Garland - Piano // Red Garland - Piano // Red Garland - Piano // Art Taylor - Drums // Paul Chambers - Bass // John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor) // John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor) // John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor) // John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor) // John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor) // John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor) // John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor) // John Coltrane - Vocals // John Coltrane - Vocals // John Coltrane - Vocals // John Coltrane - Vocals // John Coltrane - Vocals // John Coltrane - Vocals // John Coltrane - Vocals // John Coltrane - Main Performer // John Coltrane - Main Performer // John Coltrane - Main Performer // John Coltrane - Main Performer // John Coltrane - Main Performer // John Coltrane - Main Performer // John Coltrane - Main Performer // Esmond Edwards - Artwork // Esmond Edwards - Photography // Esmond Edwards - Cover Art // Kirk Felton - Digital Remastering // Mark Gardner - Liner Notes // Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer // Rudy Van Gelder - Author // Rudy Van Gelder - Remastering // Ira Gitler - Liner Notes // Akira Taguchi - Supervisor // Bob Weinstock - Producer // Bob Weinstock - Supervisor // Alan Yoshida - Mastering // John Corbett - Liner Notes // Kazue Sugimoto - Supervisor // Shigeo Miyamoto - Engineer // Shigeo Miyamoto - Mastering // Terri Hinte - Project Assistant // Rikka Arnold - Project Assistant // Rodney Dugan - CD Package Design // Steve Hoffman - Mastering // Stuart Kremsky - Production Assistant // Stuart Kremsky - Research // Del Costello - Executive Producer // Shawn R. Britton - Mastering Engineer
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