Coltrane's Sound [Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

John Coltrane | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 16, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B00000HZEX
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,768 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

2. Central Park West

3. Liberia

4. Body And Soul

5. Equinox

6. Satellite

7. 26-2

8. Body And Soul (Alternate Take)

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible!It is the 1999 Rhino release. Catalog R2 75588. There is a saw cut on the spine of the outer cardboard slip cover. The inner cover is a mini LP replica. There is a light mark on the disc.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard bop on the threshold of a new jazz form, February 17, 2003

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T. Austin (Van Nuys, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coltrane's Sound (Audio CD)

This is a Rhino Records reissue of one great Coltrane album! This album is not only a great introduction to John Coltrane for the new listener, but in my opinion, it is Coltrane's finest. There is a tremendous amount of innovation here yet it is very accessible to the average ear.

Coltrane pushes bebop here as far as it can possibly go. He does so with dynamic style, dexterity, and a real clean sound. It took a very accomplished band behind him to give him the infrastructure to do this and they must be acknowledged for their great performances as well. McCoy Tyner plays piano, Steve Davis on the bass, and Elvin Jones on the drums.

I own a lot of Coltrane albums. Some of which are compilations and some which were originals but I have to say that "Coltrane's Sound" is one of those albums that belongs in every jazz collection. It's up there with Miles Davis'," Birth of Cool", Art Pepper's "Eleven", Sonny Rollins', "Colossus" etc. etc.

To add equity to the purchase Rhino includes both a nineteen-page booklet and two bonus tracks; one of which is alternate take of "Body and Soul". The second song is called "26-2" and it is quite good. The booklet can get a little pedantic or even pompous at times but it gives good info about each song, the people that made this album great, and a history of the album from many qualitative perspectives.

This album should be your first Coltrane album or your next.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the Atlantics, January 31, 2004

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G B (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coltrane's Sound (Audio CD)

Coltrane's Sound was recorded at the same October 1960 sessions as My Favorite Things. (Coltrane Plays the Blues also comes from these sessions.) Though it has never achieved the same popularity as MFT, in my opinion Coltrane's Sound is actually a better album! It comes from a period where Coltrane finally got a working band (McCoy Tyner, Steve Davis, Elvin Jones) together and was shifting direction away from the harmonic density of Giant Steps and "sheets of sound" toward modal improvisation and more open structures.

Coltrane was experimenting with a bunch of approaches around this time, making variety one of this album's strengths. He plays soprano saxophone on the beautiful ballad "Central Park West" (pretty rare for him -- he usually played ballads on the tenor). "Satellite" is a piano-less trio tune. "Night of a Thousand Eyes" and "Liberia" are explosive workouts which already showcase Coltrane's powerful tenor playing and his special relationship with Elvin Jones. "Equinox" has him digging deep, deep into the blues -- some of Coltrane's finest, most powerful blues playing this side of "Chasin' the Trane". Throughout this album, his playing is overflowing with ideas.

The Atlantic recordings contain some of John Coltrane's best, most accessible, and most focused music. If you've already heard Giant Steps and My Favorite Things (or if you haven't), don't hesitate to pick up Coltrane's Sound.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe THE best Trane, and overlooked, October 27, 1999

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Bay-Z (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coltrane's Sound (Audio CD)

Coming at about the same time as Giant Steps and My Favorite Things, somehow Coltrane's Sound got overlooked. Too bad! Because the brilliance of Trane's playing was never more evident: the beauty of Body & Soul and his own ballad Central Park West being the best examples. The tune to Central Park West sounds like a slowed-down mellow version of Giant Steps; play the tune back to back.

This is a Coltrane classic that any lover of great jazz should treasure.