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 
https://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) - 9:10


Side B

      "Locomotion" (Coltrane) - 7:14
      "I'm Old Fashioned" (Kern/Mercer) - 7:58
      "Lazy Bird"(Coltrane) - 7:00


Personnel


      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 - producer


Technical 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.