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Coltrane Jazz 
Studio album by John Coltrane Released February 1961 Recorded March 26, 1959 (9 & 11)
November 24, 1959 (1, 7 &10)
December 2, 1959 (3-6 & 8)
October 21, 1960 (2 & 12)
Atlantic Studios, New York CityGenre Jazz Length 38:51 original LP
63:00 CD reissueLabel Atlantic
SD 1354Producer Nesuhi Ertegün John Coltrane chronology Giant Steps
(1960)Coltrane Jazz
(1961)My Favorite Things
(1961)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Coltrane Jazz is the sixth album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1354. It marks the first appearance of the early John Coltrane Quartet on record, featuring pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones.
Contents
Background
In 1959, Miles Davis' business manager Harold Lovett negotiated a contract for Coltrane with Atlantic, the terms including a $7000 annual guarantee.[2] After having recorded most of Giant Steps, Coltrane started having bridge problems, and did not return to a recording studio for six months.[3] In the late fall, he employed the rhythm section from the Miles Davis Quintet for two Atlantic sessions, which yielded the bulk of this album and the track "Naima" for Giant Steps.[4] "Like Sonny" is a tribute to colleague Sonny Rollins, whose playing Coltrane greatly admired.[5]
Having left the Davis band for good in the spring of 1960, Coltrane formed his first touring quartet for a residency at the Jazz Gallery club in Manhattan, eventually settling on the line-up of Tyner, Jones, and bassist Steve Davis in September.[6] This group entered the studio on October 21, recording "Village Blues" at the beginning of the week of sessions that produced My Favorite Things.
On June 20, 2000, Rhino Records reissued Coltrane Jazz as part of its Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Gallery series. Included were four bonus tracks, two of which had appeared in 1975 on the Atlantic compilation Alternate Takes, the remaining pair earlier issued on The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings in 1995. Two bonus tracks, the alternate versions of "Like Sonny," had been recorded at the March 26, 1959 sessions that were not used for Giant Steps.[7]
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Little Old Lady" Hoagy Carmichael, Stanley Adams 4:28 2. "Village Blues" John Coltrane 5:23 3. "My Shining Hour" Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen 4:54 4. "Fifth House" John Coltrane 4:44 Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Harmonique" John Coltrane 4:13 2. "Like Sonny" John Coltrane 5:54 3. "I'll Wait and Pray" George Treadwell, Jerry Valentine 3:35 4. "Some Other Blues" John Coltrane 5:40 2000 reissue bonus tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length 9. "Like Sonny" (alternate version 1) John Coltrane 6:07 10. "I'll Wait and Pray" (alternate take) George Treadwell, Jerry Valentine 3:30 11. "Like Sonny" (alternate version 2) John Coltrane 8:15 12. "Village Blues" (alternate take) John Coltrane 6:17 Personnel
- John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
- Wynton Kelly — piano
- Paul Chambers — bass
- Jimmy Cobb — drums
- McCoy Tyner — piano on "Village Blues"
- Steve Davis — bass on "Village Blues"
- Elvin Jones — drums on "Village Blues"
- Cedar Walton — piano on "Like Sonny" alternate versions
- Lex Humphries — drums on "Like Sonny" alternate versions
Production personnel
- Nesuhi Ertegün — production
- Tom Dowd, Phil Iehle — engineering
- Lee Friedlander — photography
- Eutemey — cover design
- Zita Carno — liner notes
- Patrick Milligan — reissue supervision
- Dan Hersch — digital remastering
- Rachel Gutek — reissue design
- Hugh Brown — reissue art direction
- Neil Tessler — reissue liner notes
- Vanessa Atkins — reissue editorial supervision
- Shawn Amos — reissue editorial coordination
References
- ^ Coltrane Jazz at Allmusic
- ^ Lewis Porter. John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. ISBN 0-472-10161-7, pp. 117-8.
- ^ Ben Ratliff. Coltrane: The Story of A Sound. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007. ISBN-13 978-0-374-12606-3, p. 53.
- ^ Porter, p. 361
- ^ Porter, pp. 156-7.
- ^ Porter, pp. 171-180.
- ^ Coltrane Jazz. Rhino R2 75204 liner notes, p. 11.
Categories:- 1961 albums
- John Coltrane albums
- Atlantic Records albums
- Albums produced by Nesuhi Ertegun
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