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Blue Train
Blue Train is a hard bop jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded on September 15, 1957, at the Van Gelder Studio. It is considered Coltrane's first solo album, as it is the first he recorded featuring musicians and songs entirely of his choosing. All...
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- 1957
Traneing In
John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane, on Prestige Records, catalogue PRLP 7123. It was recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on August 23, 1957. In 1968 it was reissued as...
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- 1957
Soultrane
Soultrane is a jazz album by John Coltrane, released in 1958. Recorded shortly after the classic Blue Train, this session was apparently one of Coltrane's favorites - he said so to Swedish journalist Carl-Erik Lindgren in 1960, and the remark is...
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- 1957
Lush Life
Lush Life is a 1958 album by jazz musician John Coltrane.
Track 5 recorded in May 1957 (Coltrane, backed by the Red Garland trio). Tracks 1-3 recorded August 1957 (by the "John Coltrane trio"). Track 4 recorded in early 1958 (quintet featuring...
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- 1958
Black Pearls
Black Pearls is a 1958 album by jazz musician John Coltrane.
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Recorded May 23, 1958 in Hackensack, NJ.
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- 1958
Coltrane Time
Coltrane Time is a 1958 album by jazz musician Cecil Taylor featuring John Coltrane, first released under this name in 1962. The same session was released previously as Hard Driving Jazz and Stereo Drive under Cecil Taylor's name in 1959, as it had...
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- 1959
Giant Steps
Giant Steps is a 1960 studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released on Atlantic Records.
Giant Steps was his second album to be recorded by the Atlantic label, and marked the first time that all of the pieces on a recording had been composed...
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- Jan 1960
My Favorite Things
My Favorite Things is a 1961 jazz album by John Coltrane. It is considered by many jazz critics and listeners to be a highly significant and historic recording. It was the first session recorded by Coltrane on the Atlantic Records label, the first...
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- 1961
Olé Coltrane
Olé Coltrane is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in 1961 by Atlantic Records.
Recorded May 25, 1961 in New York City.
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- 1961
Africa/Brass
Africa/Brass is a 1961 album by John Coltrane, his first for the new Impulse! label. It features Coltrane's five-piece working band (which at the time included two bassists - Reggie Workman and Art Davis), backed by a fifteen-piece brass band...
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- 1961
Coltrane Jazz
Coltrane Jazz is a 1961 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. It was the first album released by Atlantic Records after his debut for that label, Giant Steps. Several of the songs on this album are outtakes from the session that produced "Naima"...
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- 1961
Coltrane Plays The Blues
Coltrane Plays the Blues is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in 1962 by Atlantic Records.
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- 1962
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is a 1962 album by jazz musicians Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Ellington always recognized talent, and Coltrane seemed quite happy to be recording with a fellow genius"....
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- 1962
Coltrane Live at Birdland
Live at Birdland is a 1963 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. Despite its title, only the first three tracks were recorded live at the Birdland club, the rest were studio tracks. Among the studio tracks is "Alabama" a tribute to four children...
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- 1963
Impressions
Impressions is a 1963 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. Most of the album was recorded live at the Village Vanguard on November 3, 1961 and released in 1963 on the Impulse! label. The recording features the "classic quartet" of John Coltrane,...
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- 1963
Afro Blue Impressions
Afro-Blue Impressions is a 1963 album by jazz musician John Coltrane.
Original CD release Afro-Blue Impressions (Pablo).
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Recorded October and November 1963.
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- 1963
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman is a 1963 studio album featuring John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman.
Though Coltrane and Hartman had known each other since their days playing with Dizzy Gillespie's band in the late 1940s (Hartman had been with the...
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- 1963
Crescent
Crescent is a 1964 studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane. It features his jazz quartet group of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones playing all original Coltrane compositions, with the leader playing tenor saxophone exclusively. It is...
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- 1964
A Love Supreme
A Love Supreme is a jazz studio album released by John Coltrane's quartet in 1965. It is generally considered to be among Coltrane's greatest works, as it coalesced the hard bop sensibilities of his early career with the free jazz style he adopted...
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- 1965
Meditations
Meditations is a 1965 album by John Coltrane. It features Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders as soloists, both playing tenor saxophones. Much of the recording is fairly avant-garde, featuring extensive passages in free rhythm and extended saxophone...
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- 1965
Ascension
Ascension is a jazz album by John Coltrane recorded and released in 1965. It is often considered to be a watershed album, with the albums released before it being more conventional in structure and the albums released after it being looser, free...
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- 1965
Om
Om is a 1965 album by John Coltrane.
In October, 1965, Coltrane recorded Om, referring to the sacred syllable in Hindu religion, which symbolizes the infinite or the entire Universe. Coltrane described Om as the "first syllable, the primal word, the...
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- 1965
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays is a 1965 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. The full title of the original LP is The John Coltrane Quartet Plays: Chim Chim Cheree, Song of Praise, Nature Boy, Brazilia
Recorded February 17,18, March 28 and May 17...
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- 1965
Kulu Sé Mama
Kulu Sé Mama is a 1965 album by jazz musician John Coltrane.
Recorded June 10,16 and October 14, 1965.
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- 1965
Live in Seattle
Live in Seattle is a 1965 album by jazz musician John Coltrane on Impulse! Records. The original Double LP issue was expanded to 2 CDs for the reissue.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow warns "Coltrane experts know that 1965 was the year that his...
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- 1965
New Thing at Newport
New Thing at Newport is a 1965 album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Archie Shepp.
Side One
Side Two (from Shepp's set)
From notes: For the first time, the pieces within each set appear here in the order in which they were performed.
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- 1965
Coltrane's Sound
Coltrane's Sound is a jazz album by John Coltrane originally recorded in 1960, but released in June 1964 (according to Atlantic Records reissue liner notes). Because the tracks were put together and released four years after being recorded, the...
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- 1966
The Avant-Garde
The Avant-Garde is a 1960 album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Don Cherry. This album was Coltrane's only encounter with the "new music" of Ornette Coleman and features three of his compositions. Although Coleman does not appear on the album,...
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- 1966
Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
Live At The Village Vanguard Again! is a jazz album by saxophonist John Coltrane. Recorded in May of 1966, the album shows Coltrane playing in the free jazz style that characterized his final recordings.
Out of all the recordings made during the...
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- 1967
Expression
Expression is an album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The title track was Coltrane's last studio recording; the rest of the album was recorded at about the same time as Interstellar Space. "To Be" features Coltrane on flute, the only recording...
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- 1967
Transition
Transition is an album of music by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The album was recorded on June 10 and June 16, 1965, and released posthumously. Befittingly for its title, Transition was a bridge between classic quartet recordings like A Love...
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- 1970
Sun Ship
Sun Ship is a jazz album recorded on August 26, 1965, by tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. The album extended the free jazz ideas of Transition. The relaxed, serene feel of earlier ballads like "Welcome" was transformed into a new style of ballad on ...
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- 1971
First Meditations
First Meditations (for quartet) is a 1977 album by John Coltrane recorded in 1965. It is a quartet version of a suite Coltrane would record as Meditations two months later with the additions of Pharoah Sanders as a second tenor saxophone and Rashied...
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- 1977
Interstellar Space
Interstellar Space was the one of the final studio albums recorded by the saxophonist John Coltrane before his death in 1967, originally-released posthumously by Impulse! Records on LP in 1974.
Interstellar Space consists of an extended duet suite...
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- Oct 15, 1991
Stellar Regions
Stellar Regions is a posthumous release by John Coltrane, discovered in 1994 by the artist's wife, Alice Coltrane, who plays piano on the session. Alice Coltrane is responsible for the titles of the eight numbers on the album, although the material...
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- Oct 10, 1995
Olatunji Concert
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording is the Impulse! Records-released final live recording of saxophonist John Coltrane, recorded April 23, 1967, at the Olatunji Center of African Culture in New York and released posthumously on Compact...
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- 2001
Live at the Half Note: One Up, One Down
Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up is a 1965 album by jazz musician John Coltrane.
Original CD release Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up (Impulse!).
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Recorded 1965 in New York City.
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- Oct 11, 2005
Live in Japan
Live in Japan is a four-disc box set by American saxophonist John Coltrane and his last group, featuring the quintet of Coltrane, his wife/pianist Alice, saxophonist/bass clarinetist Pharoah Sanders, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Rashied Ali....
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Bye Bye Blackbird
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Cosmic Music
Cosmic Music is a jazz album by John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. It was originally released after John Coltrane's death. On this release, John Coltrane actually only plays on Manifestation and Reverend King. Lord, Help Me To Be and The Sun were...
