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Coltrane [Rudy Van Gelder Remaster],John Coltrane

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John Coltrane
Released 2009

Chronic Blues
08:15
93 plays

Violets For Your Furs
06:15
181 plays

Straight Street
06:17
150 plays

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- 1
- Bakai
- 08:41
- 111 plays

- 2
- Violets For Your Furs
- 06:15
- 181 plays

- 3
- Time Was
- 07:27
- 108 plays

- 4
- Straight Street
- 06:17
- 150 plays

- 5
- While My Lady Sleeps
- 04:41
- 149 plays

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- Chronic Blues
- 08:15
- 93 plays

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album review

Recorded at a single session on May 31, 1957, this was John Coltrane's first studio outing as a bandleader, and it remains an impressive debut. Working with Johnny Splawn on trumpet, Sahib Shihab on baritone sax, and a rhythm section of bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Albert Heath with Mal Waldron and Red Garland splitting time at the piano, Coltrane's sax lines are fresh and bright-sounding, with the notes flying out in little clusters, a trademark approach that Coltrane would develop and perfect in the next decade. The album, while perhaps not as startling and world-altering as Coltrane's later Impulse material, is wonderfully accessible and shows that Coltrane at this point in his career was more than ready to head his own ensemble. [Coltrane was reissued as part of the Rudy Van Gelder Series.] ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide