Coltrane (1957 album)

For the 1962 album of the same name by John Coltrane, see Coltrane (1962 album).

1957 studio album by John Coltrane

Coltrane

Studio album by

John Coltrane

Released| October 1957 (1957-10)[1][2]
Recorded| May 31, 1957
Studio| Van Gelder Studio
Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre| Hard bop
Length| 41:50
Label| Prestige
PRLP 7105
Producer| Bob Weinstock
John Coltrane chronology
|  | Coltrane
(1957)  | Blue Train
(1958)

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AllMusic| [4]
DownBeat| [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz| [5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [6]

Coltrane is an album by the American jazz musician John Coltrane which was released in October 1957 by Prestige Records.[1][2] The recordings took place at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, and document Coltrane's first session as a leader. It has been reissued at times under the title of The First Trane!.

## Background

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As a result of his exposure as a member of the Miles Davis Quintet, Prestige Records owner and producer Bob Weinstock offered Coltrane a recording contract. Dated April 9, 1957, it stipulated three albums per year at $300 per album.[7] Coltrane had previously recorded as a sideman, and had co-led a session with Paul Quinichette (released in 1959 as Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette), but never as sole bandleader.[8]

Coltrane had been fired by Davis in April 1957 for drug abuse, and had returned to Philadelphia to end his habit.[9] He returned to New York City for mid-May sessions with Prestige, this one taking place the day after Memorial Day. By the summer, Coltrane would be recording with Thelonious Monk and playing as a member of Monk's quartet for the rest of the year.[10]

For his debut, Coltrane chose a tune by his friend Calvin Massey, in addition to three standards including the relatively obscure "Time Was". Sidemen included Paul Chambers and Red Garland from the Davis band, and Philadelphia colleagues Johnnie Splawn and Albert Heath.

## Track listing

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Side oneNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Bakai"| Calvin Massey| 8:44
2.| "Violets for Your Furs"| Tom Adair, Matt Dennis| 6:18
3.| "Time Was"| Gabriel Luna de la Fuente, Paz Miguel Prado, Bob Russell| 7:31

Side twoNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Straight Street"| John Coltrane| 6:21
2.| "While My Lady Sleeps"| Gus Kahn, Bronislaw Kaper| 4:44
3.| "Chronic Blues"| John Coltrane| 8:12

## Personnel

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* John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
* Johnnie Splawn – trumpet on "Bakai", "Straight Street", "While My Lady Sleeps", "Chronic Blues"
* Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone on "Bakai", "Straight Street", "Chronic Blues"
* Red Garland – piano on side one
* Mal Waldron – piano on side two
* Paul Chambers – bass
* Albert "Tootie" Heath – drums

## References

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1. ^ a b DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 468\. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
2. ^ a b Parnes, Sid, ed. (October 12, 1957). "October Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. p. 31. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
3. ^ DownBeat: January 23, 1958 vol. 25, No. 2
4. ^ Coltrane at AllMusic
5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 284\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
6. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 46\. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
7. ^ Ben Ratliff. Coltrane: The Story of A Sound. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. ISBN 978-0-374-12606-3, p. 34
8. ^ Lewis Porter. John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. ISBN 0-472-10161-7, pp. 117-8.
9. ^ Ratliff, pp. 34-35.
10. ^ Porter, pp. 108-9.

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John Coltrane

Discography

Prestige
albums|

* Mating Call (with Tadd Dameron)
* Tenor Conclave
* Coltrane
* Interplay
* Wheelin' & Dealin'
* John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio
* Soultrane
* Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
* The Cats (with Tommy Flanagan and Kenny Burrell)
* Lush Life
* Settin' the Pace
* Standard Coltrane
* Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
* Stardust
* Dakar
* The Believer
* Black Pearls
* Bahia
* The Last Trane
* Two Tenors

Blue Note
albums|

* Blue Train
* Coltrane Time

Atlantic
albums|

* Giant Steps
* Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson)
* Coltrane Jazz
* My Favorite Things
* Olé Coltrane
* Coltrane Plays the Blues
* Coltrane's Sound
* The Avant-Garde

Impulse!
albums|

* Africa/Brass
* Coltrane
* Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
* Ballads
* Impressions
* John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
* Crescent
* A Love Supreme
* The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
* Ascension
* Meditations
* Kulu Sé Mama
* Expression
* Om
* Cosmic Music (with Alice Coltrane)
* Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things
* Transition
* Sun Ship
* Infinity
* Interstellar Space
* The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2
* First Meditations
* Dear Old Stockholm
* Stellar Regions
* Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
* Blue World

With
Miles Davis|

* Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
* 'Round About Midnight
* Cookin'
* Relaxin'
* Milestones
* Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
* Kind of Blue
* Jazz Track
* Workin'
* Steamin'
* Someday My Prince Will Come
* Miles & Monk at Newport
* Basic Miles
* At Newport 1958
* Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I
* 1958 Miles
* Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock Alley

With
Thelonious Monk|

* The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings
* Thelonious Himself
* Monk's Music
* Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
* Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane

Live albums|

* "Live" at the Village Vanguard
* Live at Birdland
* New Thing at Newport
* Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
* Live in Seattle
* Live in Japan
* Afro Blue Impressions
* The Paris Concert
* The European Tour
* Live Trane: The European Tours
* Bye Bye Blackbird
* Newport '63
* The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
* The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
* Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up
* Offering: Live at Temple University
* A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
* Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy

Compilations|

* Alternate Takes
* The Best of John Coltrane
* The Classic Quartet – Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings
* Coltrane for Lovers
* The Coltrane Legacy
* The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane
* The Prestige Recordings
* Countdown: The Savoy Sessions
* Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions
* Feelin' Good
* Gold Coast
* The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
* High Step
* The Major Works of John Coltrane
* Jupiter Variation
* Ken Burns Jazz: John Coltrane
* The Last Giant: Anthology
* Living Space
* To the Beat of a Different Drum
* Trane's Blues
* Trane's Modes

Compositions|

* "26-2"
* "Alabama"
* "Blue Train"
* "Central Park West"
* "Countdown"
* "Equinox"
* "Giant Steps"
* "Impressions"
* "Lazy Bird"
* "Moment's Notice"
* "Mr. P.C."
* "Naima"
* "Ogunde"

Documentaries|

* The Church of Saint Coltrane
* The World According to John Coltrane
* Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

Related|

* List of sessions
* Coltrane changes
* Sheets of sound
* Alice Coltrane (wife)
* Ravi Coltrane (son)
* Philadelphia house
* Dix Hills home
* 5893 Coltrane asteroid
* John W. Coltrane Cultural Society
* Tribute albums
* Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

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Mal Waldron

Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader

co-leader|

* Mal-1 (1956)
* Mal/2 (1957)
* The Dealers (1957)
* Mal/3: Sounds (1958)
* Just Wailin' (1958)
* Mal/4: Trio (1958)
* Left Alone (1959)
* Impressions (1959)
* The Quest (1961)
* Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)
* Ursula (1969)
* Free at Last (1969)
* Tokyo Bound (1970)
* Tokyo Reverie (1970)
* Blood and Guts (1970)
* Spanish Bitch (1970
* The Opening (1970)
* Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1970)
* The Call (1971)
* First Encounter (1971)
* Number Nineteen (1971)
* Black Glory (1971)
* Mal Waldron Plays the Blues (1971)
* Signals (1971)
* Journey Without End (1971)
* Blues for Lady Day (1972)
* A Little Bit of Miles (1972)
* Jazz a Confronto 19 (1972)
* A Touch of the Blues (1972)
* Mal Waldron on Steinway (1972)
* Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972)
* The Whirling Dervish (1972)
* Meditations (1972)
* Up Popped the Devil (1973)
* Hard Talk (1974)
* Moods (1977)
* Mingus Lives (1979)
* Mal 81 (1981)
* Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981)
* What It Is (1981)
* One Entrance, Many Exits (1982)
* In Retrospect (1982)
* Breaking New Ground (1983)
* Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie (1983)
* You and the Night and the Music (1983)
* Encounters (1984)
* Dedication (1985)
* Sempre Amore (1986)
* Left Alone '86 (1986)
* Update (1986)
* The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (1986)
* The Seagulls of Kristiansund (1986)
* Our Colline's a Treasure (1987)
* Remembering the Moment (1987)
* The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987)
* Mal, Dance and Soul (1987)
* Evidence (1988)
* Art of the Duo (1988)
* No More Tears (For Lady Day) (1988)
* Crowd Scene (1989)
* Where Are You? (1989)
* Quadrologue at Utopia (1989)
* More Git' Go at Utopia (1989)
* Spring in Prague (1990)
* Hot House (1990)
* I Remember Thelonious (1992)
* My Dear Family (1993)
* Waldron-Haslam (1994)
* After Hours (1994)
* Communiqué (1994)
* Mal, Verve, Black & Blue (1994)
* Two New (1995)
* Silence (with David Murray, 2001)

With
Gene
Ammons|

* Jammin' with Gene (1956)
* Funky (1957)
* Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (1957)
* The Big Sound (1958)
* Groove Blues (1958)
* Velvet Soul (1962)
* Angel Eyes (1962)
* Sock! (1962)

With
Jackie
McLean|

* 4, 5 and 6 (1956)
* Jackie's Pal (1956)
* Jackie McLean & Co. (1957)
* Makin' the Changes (1957)
* A Long Drink of the Blues (1957)
* Strange Blues (1957)
* McLean's Scene (1957)

With
Charles Mingus|

* Jazz Composers Workshop (1954)
* Mingus at the Bohemia (1955)
* The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955)
* Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
* Blues & Roots (1959)

With the
Prestige
All Stars|

* Baritones and French Horns (aka, Dakar, 1957)
* Four Altos (1957)
* Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (1957)
* The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957)
* Wheelin' & Dealin' (1957)

With
others|

* All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956)
* Earthy (Kenny Burrell, 1957)
* 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957)
* Where? (Ron Carter, 1961)
* The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956)
* Coolin' (Teddy Charles, 1957)
* Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette, 1957)
* Coltrane (1957)
* Dakar (John Coltrane, Pepper Adams & Cecil Payne, 1957)
* At the Five Spot (Eric Dolphy, both volumes, 1961)
* Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper, 1957)
* Hornful of Soul (aka, Catwalk, Bennie Green, 1960)
* Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1957)
* Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958)
* So Warm (Etta Jones, 1961)
* After Hours (Thad Jones, 1957)
* Olio (Thad Jones, 1957)
* Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958)
* Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961)
* Teo (Teo Macero, 1957)
* On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957)
* Percussion Bitter Sweet (Max Roach, 1961)
* It's Time (Max Roach, 1962)
* Speak, Brother, Speak! (Max Roach, 1962)
* For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)

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