The Prestige Recordings

1991 box set by John Coltrane

The Prestige Recordings

Box set by

John Coltrane

Released| 1991
Recorded| 1956–58
Studio| Rudy Van Gelder Studio
Genre| Jazz
Length| 18h20min
Label| Prestige
Producer| Orrin Keepnews (reissue)
John Coltrane chronology
|  | The Prestige Recordings
(1991)  | The Major Works of John Coltrane
(1992)

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The Prestige Recordings is a box set by jazz musician John Coltrane.

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz| [2]

In review for AllMusic Lindsay Planer wrote: "The 16 CDs in this compendium represent nearly everything that John Coltrane recorded for the Prestige label during a 32-month period between May 7, 1956, and December 26, 1958... Accompanying the music is a 32-page liner notes booklet. Inside are a historical essay from Doug Ramsey, a session-by-session breakdown by Carl Woideck..., and several different cross-references of the contents. Overall, the audio quality is excellent throughout, especially considering that the original tapes were transferred during the infancy of digital audio technology."[1]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented: "The boxed set offers the most comprehensive and, for most listeners, exhaustive documentation of Trane's time with the label... It reveals the saxophonist still in larval stage and not yet the compellingly beautiful imago of the Atlantic years."[2]

## Track listing

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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

### CD1

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1. Tenor Madness (Sonny Rollins – Tenor Madness – 5/24/56)
2. Weeja (Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz – 5/7/56)
3. Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz \- 5/7/56)
4. On It (Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz – 5/7/56)
5. Avalon (Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz – 5/7/56)
6. Tenor Conclave (Tenor Conclave – 9/7/56)
7. How Deep is the Ocean? (Tenor Conclave – 9/7/56)

### CD2

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1. Just You, Just Me (Tenor Conclave – 9/7/56)
2. Bob's Boys (Tenor Conclave – 9/7/56)
3. Mating Call (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
4. Soultrane (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
5. Gnid (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
6. Super Jet (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
7. On A Misty Night (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
8. Romas (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
9. Soul Eyes (Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors – 3/22/57)

### CD3

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1. Anatomy (Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors – 3/22/57)
2. Interplay (Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors – 3/22/57)
3. Light Blue (Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors – 3/22/57)
4. C.T.A. (Art Taylor – Taylor's Wailers – 3/22/57)
5. Eclypso (The Cats – 4/18/57)
6. Solacium (The Cats – 4/18/57)
7. Minor Mishap (The Cats – 4/18/57)
8. Tommy's Tune (The Cats – 4/18/57)

### CD4

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1. Dakar (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
2. Mary's Blues (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
3. Route 4 (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
4. Velvet Scene (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
5. Witches' Pit (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
6. Cat Walk (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
7. Pot Pourri (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 4/19/57)
8. J.M.'s Dream Doll (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 4/19/57)
9. Don't Explain (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 4/19/57)
10. Falling In Love With Love (Mal Waldron – The Dealers – 4/19/57)

### CD5

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1. Blue Calypso (Mal Waldron – The Dealers – 4/19/57)
2. The Way You Look Tonight (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 5/17/57)
3. From This Moment On (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 5/17/57)
4. One By One (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 5/17/57)
5. Cattin' (Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette – 5/17/57)
6. Anatomy (Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette – 5/17/57)
7. Vodka (Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette – 5/17/57)
8. Sunday (Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette – 5/17/57)

### CD6

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1. Straight Street (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
2. While My Lady Sleeps (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
3. Chronic Blues (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
4. Bakai (Coltrane \- 5/31/57)
5. Violets For Your Furs (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
6. Time Was (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
7. I Hear A Rhapsody (Lush Life – 5/31/57)
8. Trane's Slow Blues (Lush Life – 8/16/57)
9. Slowtrane (The Last Trane – 8/16/57)
10. Like Someone in Love (Lush Life – 8/16/57)
11. I Love You (Lush Life – 8/16/57)

### CD7

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1. Dealin' (Take 1) (Mal Waldron – The Dealers – 9/20/57)
2. Dealin' (Take 2) (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
3. Wheelin' (Take 1) (Mal Waldron – The Dealers – 9/20/57)
4. Wheelin' (Take 2) (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
5. Robbin's Nest (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
6. Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)

### CD8

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1. You Leave Me Breathless (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
2. Bass Blues (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
3. Soft Lights And Sweet Music (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
4. Traneing In (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
5. Slow Dance (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
6. Our Delight (Red Garland – All Mornin' Long – 11/15/57)
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me (Red Garland – All Mornin' Long – 11/15/57)
8. Woody'n You (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
9. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)

### CD9

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1. Undecided (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
2. Soul Junction (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
3. What Is There To Say? (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
4. Birk's Works (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
5. Hallelujah (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
6. All Mornin' Long (Red Garland – All Mornin' Long – 11/15/57)

### CD10

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1. Billie's Bounce (Red Garland – Dig It! – 12/13/57)
2. Solitude (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
3. Two Bass Hit (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
4. Soft Winds (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
5. Lazy Mae (Red Garland – Dig It! – 12/13/57)
6. Under Paris Skies (Ray Draper \- The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane – 12/20/57)
7. Two Sons (Ray Draper \- The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane – 12/20/57)

### CD11

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1. Clifford's Kappa (Ray Draper \- The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane \- 12/20/57)
2. Filide (The Believer) (Ray Draper – The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane \- 12/20/57)
3. Paul's Pal (The Believer – 1958) (Ray Draper \- The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane – 12/20/57)
4. Ammon Joy (Gene Ammons – Groove Blues – 1/3/58)
5. Groove Blues (Gene Ammons – Groove Blues – 1/3/58)
6. The Real McCoy (Gene Ammons – The Big Sound – 1/3/58)
7. It Might As Well Be Spring (Gene Ammons – Groove Blues – 1/3/58)

### CD12

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1. Lush Life (Lush Life 1/10/58)
2. The Believer (The Believer 1/10/58)
3. Nakatini Serenade (The Believer 1/10/58)
4. Come Rain or Come Shine (The Last Trane – 1/10/1958)
5. Lover (The Last Trane – 1/10/58)
6. Russian Lullaby (Soultrane – 2/7/58)
7. Theme For Ernie (Soultrane – 2/7/58)

### CD13

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1. You Say You Care (Soultrane – 2/7/58)
2. Good Bait (Soultrane – 2/7/58)
3. I Want To Talk About You (Soultrane – 2/7/58)
4. Lyresto (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane \- 3/7/58)
5. Why Was I Born? (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane – 3/7/58)
6. Freight Trane (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane – 3/7/58)
7. I Never Knew (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane – 3/7/58)
8. Big Paul (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane – 3/7/58)

### CD14

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1. Rise 'N' Shine (Settin' the Pace – 3/26/58)
2. "I See Your Face Before Me" (Settin' the Pace – 3/26/58)
3. If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You (Settin' the Pace – 3/26/58)
4. Little Melonae (Settin' the Pace – 3/26/58)
5. By The Numbers (The Last Trane – 3/26/58)
6. Black Pearls (Black Pearls – 5/23/58)

### CD15

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1. Lover Come Back To Me (Black Pearls – 5/23/58)
2. Sweet Sapphire Blues (Black Pearls \- 5/23/58)
3. Spring Is Here (Standard Coltrane – 7/11/58)
4. Invitation (Standard Coltrane – 7/11/58)
5. I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All (Bahia \- 7/11/58)
6. Love Thy Neighbor (Stardust – 7/11/58)
7. Don't Take Your Love From Me (Standard Coltrane – 7/11/58)

### CD16

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1. Stardust (Stardust – 7/11/58)
2. My Ideal (Bahia \- 7/11/58)
3. I'll Get By (Standard Coltrane – 7/11/58)
4. Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? (The Believer – 12/26/58)
5. Then I'll Be Tired Of You (Stardust \- 12/26/58)
6. Something I Dreamed Last Night (Bahia \- 12/26/58)
7. Bahia (Bahia \- 12/26/58)
8. Goldsboro Express (Bahia \- 12/26/58)
9. Time After Time (Stardust \- 12/26/58)

## References

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1. ^ a b Planer, Lindsay. "John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings". AllMusic. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
2. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 269.

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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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