Soultrane

by John Coltrane

Overview

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. ~ Lindsay Planer

Product Details

Release Date:	03/24/2023
Label:	Wax Time
UPC:	8435723700043
Rank:	26767

Album Credits

Performance Credits

John Coltrane   Primary Artist,Vocals,Sax (Tenor)
Tadd Dameron   Primary Artist
Art Taylor   Guest Artist,Drums
Paul Chambers   Bass (Upright),Guest Artist,Bass
Red Garland   Guest Artist,Piano

Technical Credits

Rudy Van Gelder   Audio Engineer,Engineer,Remastering
Bob Weinstock   Audio Production,Producer,Supervisor
Tadd Dameron   Composer
Steve Hoffman   Mastering
Billy Eckstine   Composer
Ira Gitler   Liner Notes
Kirk Felton   Digital Remastering
Irving Berlin   Composer
Count Basie   Composer
John Corbett   Liner Notes
Esmond Edwards   Artwork,Cover Art,Photography
Jule Styne   Composer
Stuart Kremsky   Research,Production Assistant
Akira Taguchi   Supervisor
Fred Lacey   Composer
Leo Robin   Composer
Alan Yoshida   Mastering
Terri Hinte   Project Assistant
Shigeo Miyamoto   Engineer,Mastering
Mark Gardner   Liner Notes
Rikka Arnold   Project Assistant
Kazue Sugimoto   Supervisor
Rodney Dugan   CD Package Design
Del Costello   Executive Producer
Shawn R. Britton   Mastering Engineer