Soultrane

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Field	Value
name	Soultrane
type	studio
artist	John Coltrane
cover	John Coltrane - Soultrane.jpg
released
recorded	February 7, 1958
studio	Van Gelder, Hackensack, New Jersey
genre	*Jazz
length	39:56
label	Prestige
producer	Bob Weinstock
prev_title	John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio
prev_year	1958
next_title	Giant Steps
next_year	1960
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::callout[type=note] the 1958 John Coltrane jazz album ::

| name = Soultrane | type = studio | artist = John Coltrane | cover = John Coltrane - Soultrane.jpg | alt = | released = | recorded = February 7, 1958 | venue = | studio = Van Gelder, Hackensack, New Jersey | genre = *Jazz

• hard bop | length = 39:56 | label = Prestige | producer = Bob Weinstock | prev_title = John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio | prev_year = 1958 | next_title = Giant Steps | next_year = 1960 |rev1 =AllMusic |rev1score = |rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz |rev4score = |rev5 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | rev5Score = {{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | page = 48 |rev3 = Tom Hull |rev3Score = A− | rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | rev2Score = Soultrane is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in 1958 through Prestige Records, with catalogue no. 7142. It was recorded in mono at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, three days after a Columbia Records session for Miles Davis and the Milestones album.

Content

The album is a showcase for Coltrane's late-1950s "sheets of sound" style, the term itself coined by critic Ira Gitler in the album's liner notes. Also featured is a long reading of Billy Eckstine's ballad standard "I Want to Talk About You", which Coltrane would revisit often, including a version on the album Live at Birdland. Among the other tracks are "Good Bait" by Tadd Dameron, and Fred Lacey's "Theme for Ernie". "You Say You Care" is from the Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

The album closes with a frenetic version of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby". Producer Bob Weinstock relates Coltrane's humorous interpretation: :We were doing a session and we were hung for a tune and I said, "Trane, why don't you think up some old standard?" He said, "OK I got it.["]...and they played "Russian Lullaby" at a real fast tempo. At the end I asked, "Trane, what was the name of that tune?" And he said, "Rushin' Lullaby". I cracked up.

Soultrane takes its title from a song on a 1956 album by Tadd Dameron featuring Coltrane, Mating Call. "Soultrane" does not appear on this Soultrane, and none of the five tunes on Soultrane is an original by Coltrane. The song "Theme for Ernie" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2005 film Hollywoodland.

Track listing

| headline = Side one | title1 = Good Bait | writer1 = | length1 = 12:08 | title2 = I Want to Talk about You | writer2 = Billy Eckstine | total_length = 23:01 | length2 = 10:53 | headline = Side two | title1 = You Say You Care | writer1 = | length1 = 6:16 | title2 = Theme for Ernie | writer2 = Fred Lacey | length2 = 4:57 | title3 = Russian Lullaby | writer3 = Irving Berlin | total_length = 16:46 | length3 = 5:33

Personnel

• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• Red Garland – piano
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Art Taylor – drums

Production

• Rudy Van Gelder – engineering, remastering
• Shigeo Miyamoto – engineering, mastering
• Alan Yoshida, Steve Hoffman – mastering
• Del Costello, Bob Weinstock – production
• Kazue Sugimoto – supervision
• Akira Taguchi – supervision
• Ira Gitler – liner notes

References

References

1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3woEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Soultrane+7142&pg=PA42 ''Billboard'' Oct 27, 1958]
2. {{AllMusic
3. (2008). "The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings". [[Penguin Books.
4. Hull, Tom. (n.d.). "Essential Jazz Albums of the 1950s".
5. Larkin, Colin. (2007). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". [[Oxford University Press]].
6. Porter, Lewis. (1999). "John Coltrane: His Life and Music". The University of Michigan Press.

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