John Coltrane - Blue Train (1957) [Vinyl-180g]

John Coltrane - Blue Train

audiophile Japan 180g LP / TOJJ-6505 (Blue Note 1577)

Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC | m3u, cue & Log | Artwork

~950 mb incl. recovery | RS & FF | Genre: Jazz | 1957



Allmusic.com rating: 5 out of 5 Stars



Without reservation, Blue Train can easily be considered in and among the most important and influential entries not only of John Coltrane's career, but of the entire genre of jazz music as well.

- Lindsay Planer/AMG

http://www.allmusic.com/album/r136902



Blue Train is a jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded on September 15, 1957 at the Van Gelder Studio. It is considered Coltrane's first solo album, as it is the first he recorded featuring musicians and songs entirely of his choosing. All of the compositions were written by Coltrane, save one. The title track is a long, rhythmically variegated blues with a brooding minor theme that gradually shifts to major during Coltrane's first chorus. "Locomotion" is also a blues riff tune, in thirty-two-bar form.



Coltrane's next major LP, Giant Steps (1959), would break new melodic and harmonic ground in jazz, whereas Blue Train adheres to the hard bop style of the era. Two of its songs, "Moment's Notice" and "Lazy Bird", demonstrate Coltrane's first recorded use of Coltrane changes, which he would later expand upon on Giant Steps.



Blue Train remains an extremely popular disc, and during a 1960 interview Coltrane described it as his favorite album of his own up to that point.Track listing



Side A



"Blue Train" (Coltrane) - 10:43

"Moment's Notice" (Coltrane) - 9:10Side B



"Locomotion" (Coltrane) - 7:14

"I'm Old Fashioned" (Kern/Mercer) - 7:58

"Lazy Bird"(Coltrane) - 7:00Personnel John Coltrane - tenor saxophone

Lee Morgan - trumpet

Curtis Fuller - trombone

Paul Chambers - bass

Kenny Drew - piano

Philly Joe Jones - drums

Recorded on September 15, 1957.

Rudy van Gelder - engineer

Alfred Lion - producerTechnical Log



RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"

Music Hall MMF 5.1 Turntable with Pro-Ject Speedbox

Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge

Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA

Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface

Interconnections by "Goldkabel"

Wavelab 5 recording software



Vacuum cleaning - TT - Belari - Laptop - Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) - manual click removal - analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) - split into individual Tracks - FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)



No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.