Blue Train

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Album Info

Release Date: 2019

Label: American Jazz Classics

Presented here is John Coltrane’s complete 1957 album Blue Train (Blue Note BST1577), which was also the first on which the saxophonist was given the opportunity to select his own sidemen for a date. When asked in a 1960 radio interview which was his favorite of all the albums he recorded up to that point, Coltrane was quick to reply: Blue Train. The classic album Lush Life (Prestige 7188) has been added in its entirety as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:
JOHN COLTRANE, tenor saxophone
LEE MORGAN, trumpet
CURTIS FULLER, trombone
KENNY DREW, piano
PAUL CHAMBERS, bass
PHILLY JOE JONES, drums
Hackensack, New Jersey, September 15, 1957.

(*) BONUS ALBUM: LUSH LIFE:
On [6-8]: JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax; EARL MAY, bass; ARTHUR TAYLOR, drums.
On [9-10]: JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax; DONALD BYRD, trumpet; RED GARLAND, piano;
PAUL CHAMBERS, bass; ALBERT “TOOTIE” HEATH, drums.
Hackensack, New Jersey, 1957-58.

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