Stereo Drive

1959 studio album by Cecil Taylor

Stereo Drive

Studio album by

Cecil Taylor

Released| 1959
Recorded| October 13, 1958
New York City
Genre| Jazz
Length| 33:35
Label| United Artists
Blue Note
Producer| Tom Wilson
Cecil Taylor chronology
| Looking Ahead!
(1958)  | Stereo Drive
(1959)  | Love for Sale
(1959)

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Stereo Drive is an album by jazz musician Cecil Taylor featuring John Coltrane.[1] It was released in 1959 on United Artists Records, catalogue UAS 5014. The mono edition was issued as UAL 4014 with the title Hard Driving Jazz credited to The Cecil Taylor Quintet, and later reissued under Coltrane's name in 1962 as Coltrane Time (UAJS 15001). Compact disc reissues appeared on the Blue Note Records label credited to Coltrane. It is the only known recording featuring both Coltrane and Taylor.[2]

Taylor has described how the record company determined the choice of musicians on the session: "I said 'Coltrane okay, but I want to use all the musicians that I want.' I wanted to use Ted Curson, who's a much more contemporary trumpet player than the trumpet player I ended up with, Kenny Dorham." Relations between Taylor, who favoured a very avant-garde approach, and Dorham, who verbally disapproved of Taylor's "way-out" tendencies, were strained.[3]

## Reception[edit]

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [4]

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "Although Taylor and John Coltrane got along well, trumpeter Kenny Dorham... hated the avant-garde pianist's playing and was clearly bothered by Taylor's dissonant comping behind his solos. With bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Louis Hayes doing their best to ignore the discord, the group manages to perform two blues and two standards with Dorham playing strictly bop, Taylor coming up with fairly free abstractions, and Coltrane sounding somewhere in between. The results are unintentionally fascinating."[2]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote that the session's "importance... is the unique opportunity to hear two of the great modernist pioneers together." However, "Unfortunately, they seem to cancel one another out. Both are playing rather circumspectly, perhaps in deference to the other, and the real star of the session... turns out to be Israels."[4]

## Track listing[edit]

1. "Shifting Down" (Dorham) — 10:43
2. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Lewis) — 6:17
3. "Like Someone in Love" (Van Heusen, Burke) — 8:13
4. "Double Clutching" (Israels) — 8:18

## Personnel[edit]

* Cecil Taylor — piano
* Kenny Dorham — trumpet
* John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
* Chuck Israels — bass
* Louis Hayes — drums

## References[edit]

1. ^ Crispin, Darla; Gilmore, Bob (October 7, 2014). Artistic Experimentation in Music: An Anthology. Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789462700130 - via Google Books.
2. ^ a b c Yanow, Scott. "John Coltrane: Coltrane Time". AllMusic. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
3. ^ Spellman, A. B. (1985 originally 1966). Four Lives in the Bebop Business. Limelight. p. 69.
4. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin. p. 269.

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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: The Complete Impulse! 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"
* "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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Cecil Taylor

Discography

Studio albums|

* Jazz Advance
* Looking Ahead!
* Stereo Drive
* Love for Sale
* The World of Cecil Taylor
* Air
* Cell Walk for Celeste
* Jumpin' Punkins
* New York City R&B
* Unit Structures
* Conquistador!
* Cecil Taylor Unit
* 3 Phasis
* Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)
* Chinampas
* In Florescence
* Momentum Space

Live albums|

* At Newport
* Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
* Student Studies
* Praxis
* The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
* Indent
* Akisakila
* Solo
* Spring of Two Blue J's
* Silent Tongues
* Dark to Themselves
* Air Above Mountains
* Live in the Black Forest
* One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye
* Historic Concerts
* It Is in the Brewing Luminous
* Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!
* The Eighth
* Garden
* Iwontunwonsi
* Amewa
* For Olim
* Olu Iwa
* Live in Bologna
* Live in Vienna
* Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil
* In East Berlin
* Regalia
* The Hearth
* Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
* Remembrance
* Pleistozaen Mit Wasser
* Spots, Circles, and Fantasy
* Legba Crossing
* Erzulie Maketh Scent
* Leaf Palm Hand
* Looking (Berlin Version) Solo
* Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio
* Looking (Berlin Version) Corona
* Celebrated Blazons
* 2 Ts for a Lovely T
* CT: The Dance Project
* Double Holy House
* Nailed
* Melancholy
* The Tree of Life
* Always a Pleasure
* The Light of Corona
* Almeda
* Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1
* Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2
* Lifting the Bandstand
* Algonquin
* Incarnation
* The Willisau Concert
* The Owner of the River Bank
* All the Notes
* Taylor/Dixon/Oxley
* The Last Dance

Compilations|

* Mixed

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