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| Studio album by John Coltrane | ||||
| Released | July 1962 | |||
| Recorded | April 11, June 19, 20, and 29, 1962 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
| Genre | Modal jazz | |||
| Length | 39:55 | |||
| Label | Impulse! | |||
| Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
| John Coltrane chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Down Beat | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  |
Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. When reissued on CD, it featured a Coltrane composition dedicated to his hero "Big Nick" Nicholas which Coltrane would record later the same year with his Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. The composition "Tunji" was written by Coltrane in dedication to the Nigerian drummer, Babatunde Olatunji.
Critical reception
Allmusic's Michael G. Nastos called the album "a most focused effort, a relatively popular session to both fans or latecomers, with five selections that are brilliantly conceived and rendered." He found Coltrane "simply masterful" on tenor saxophone with a "fully formed instrumental voice" that "shine through in the most illuminating manner", and wrote of the album's standing in his catalog:
Even more than any platitudes one can heap on this extraordinary recording, it historically falls between the albums Olé Coltrane and Impressions — completing a triad of studio efforts that are as definitive as anything Coltrane ever produced, and highly representative of him in his prime.
Francis Davis of The Village Voice felt that, apart from the "modal, three-quarter time novelty hit" "The Inch Worm", consumers should buy the album for "the gorgeous 'Soul Eyes' and a shattering 'Out of This World'".
Track listing
Side one
- "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen) — 14:06
- "Soul Eyes" (Mal Waldron) — 5:26
Side two
- "The Inch Worm" (Frank Loesser) — 6:19
- "Tunji" (Coltrane) — 6:33
- "Miles' Mode" (Coltrane) — 7:31
- Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–5 on CD reissue.
1997 CD bonus tracks
- "Big Nick" (Coltrane) — 4:04
- "Up 'Gainst The Wall" (Coltrane) — 3:13
2002 deluxe edition
Disc One
- "Out of This World" — 14:04
- "Soul Eyes" — 5:25
- "The Inch Worm" — 6:14
- "Tunji" — 6:32
- "Miles' Mode" — 7:31
Disc Two
- "Not Yet" (Tyner) — 6:13
- "Miles' Mode" — 7:08
- "Tunji" — 10:41
- "Tunji" — 7:55
- "Tunji" — 7:16
- "Tunji" — 7:48
- "Impressions" (Coltrane) — 6:32
- "Impressions" — 4:33
- "Big Nick" — 4:28
- "Up 'Gainst the Wall" — 3:15
Personnel
- John Coltrane — tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- McCoy Tyner — piano
- Jimmy Garrison — bass
- Elvin Jones — drums
- Pete Turner - photography
References
- Editorial Staff, Cash Box (21 July 1962). "July Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box, New York. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ Nastoes, Michael G. Review: Coltrane. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-10-05.
- Down Beat: October 11, 1962 vol. 29, no. 26
- Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 46. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- Frances Davis (2006-05-30). "The John Coltrane Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2009-10-18.