简介：
John Coltrane, is in a sense, as Ira Gitler wrote in the liner notes to Coltrane's 1957 self-titled album ?featuring his 1st session as a band leader ?a new star, "but he has not arrived through high-pressure press agentry. He has been building on more solid ground."
From the time of his joining the Miles Davis quintet in late 1955 through to his brilliant work with Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot Cafe in the summer of 1957, Coltrane steadily increased his accomplishments on his instrument & gained new admirers for his playing among his fellow musicians & the serious listening public. For this date Coltrane chose his musicians, he contributed several compositions & he also wrote some of the arrangements.
"Bakai" (meaning "cry" in Arabic), by Cal Massey, opens the album. Its handsome minor theme is expounded by pianist Red Garland, Coltrane (who's horn really cries), & baritone saxophonist Sahib Shihab. Tracks 2 & 3 are handled by the quartet featuring Coltrane & Garland. Two ballad standards, "Violet for Your Furs," & "Time Was," are the subjects; the former receives a sensitive ballad treatment while the latter is done in bright medium time. "Straight Street" is a Coltrane composition & arrangement featuring solos by Coltrane, trumpeter Johnnie Splawn & pianist Mal Waldron. An interestingly different Coltrane interpretation of the seldom-done "While My Lady Sleeps" is Coltrane's alone until Splawn joins him for a final eerie note. Coltrane's "Chronic Blues" is the closer & gives all the horns & Waldron solo room.
Recorded over the course of 3 months in 1962, Coltrane was John Coltrane's 3rd album for Impulse, but his 1st for the label devoted entirely to his regular working group. It was also the 1st album on any label to showcase what came to be known as the classic John Coltrane Quartet. That group ?with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass & Elvin Jones on drums ?established itself in its 4 years of existence as 1 of the most influential ensembles in jazz, & 1 of the most popular as well. Coltrane documents its genesis.
曲目：
1. Bakai
2. Violets For Your Furs
3. Time Was
4. Straight Street
5. While My Lady Sleeps
6. Chronic Blues 试听：
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