The Prestige Recordings
John Coltrane
The two and a half years represented in this mammoth collection made up a period of great activity and development for young John Coltrane. It was a time in which he worked in the Miles Davis Quintet, then joined Thelonious Monk for his historic Five Spot engagement, and then took his place in the legendary 1958 Miles Davis Sextet. It was a time in which he grew from a somewhat promising tenor player to a supernova about to burst upon the jazz world. It was also a span during which Trane traveled with great regularity to the original New Jersey location of the Rudy Van Gelder Studio, taking part in no less than 25 lengthy Prestige recording sessions.
Coltrane is heard here as leader of his own first albums, as a co-leader, as participant in a number of free-for-all jam sessions, as featured sideman, as frequent collaborator with Red Garland and Donald Byrd–actually in all his Prestige contexts except as a Miles Davis sideman (since those sessions are presently available in the boxed set of Miles's complete recordings for the label). There are 125 selections on these 16 compact discs, totaling almost 1100 minutes of music, an invaluable segment of the full story of one of the truly great creative jazz artists of all times.
Produced by ORRIN KEEPNEWS
TRACKLISTING
DISC ONE
- 1. Tenor Madness
- 2. Weeja
- 3. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
- 4. On It
- 5. Avalon
- 6. Bob's Boys
- 7. How Deep Is The Ocean
DISC TWO
- 1. Just You, Just Me
- 2. Tenor Conclave
- 3. Mating Call
- 4. Soultrane
- 5. Gnid
- 6. Super Jet
- 7. On A Misty Night
- 8. Romas
- 9. Soul Eyes
DISC THREE
- 1. Anatomy
- 2. Interplay
- 3. Light Blue
- 4. C.T.A.
- 5. Eclypso
- 6. Solacium
- 7. Minor Mishap
- 8. Tommy's Time
DISC FOUR
- 1. Dakar
- 2. Mary's Blues
- 3. Route 4
- 4. Velvet Scene
- 5. Witches' Pit
- 6. Cat Walk
- 7. Potpourri
- 8. J.M.'s Dream Doll
- 9. Don't Explain
- 10. Falling In Love With Love
DISC FIVE
- 1. Blue Calypso
- 2. The Way You Look Tonight
- 3. From This Moment On
- 4. One By One
- 5. Cattin'
- 6. Anatomy
- 7. Vodka
- 8. Sunday
DISC SIX
- 1. Straight Street
- 2. While My Lady Sleeps
- 3. Chronic Blues
- 4. Bakai
- 5. Violets For Your Furs
- 6. Time Was
- 7. I Hear A Rhapsody
- 8. Trane's Slo Blues
- 9. Slowtrane
- 10. Like Someone In Love
- 11. I Love You
DISC SEVEN
- 1. Dealin' (Take 1)
- 2. Dealin' (Take 2)
- 3. Wheelin' (Take 1)
- 4. Wheelin' (Take 2)
- 5. Robbins' Nest
- 6. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
DISC EIGHT
- 1. You Leave Me Breathless
- 2. Bass Blues
- 3. Soft Lights And Sweet Music
- 4. Traneing In
- 5. Slow Dance
- 6. Our Delight
- 7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
- 8. Woody'n You
- 9. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
DISC NINE
- 1. Undecided
- 2. Soul Junction
- 3. What Is There To Say
- 4. Birks' Works
- 5. Hallelujah
- 6. All Mornin' Long
DISC TEN
- 1. Billie's Bounce
- 2. Solitude
- 3. Two Bass Hit
- 4. Soft Winds
- 5. Lazy Mae
- 6. Under Paris Skies
- 7. Two Sons
DISC ELEVEN
- 1. Clifford's Kappa
- 2. Filidia
- 3. Paul's Pal
- 4. Ammon Joy
- 5. Groove Blues
- 6. The Real McCoy
- 7. It Might As Well Be Spring
DISC TWELVE
- 1. Lush Life
- 2. The Believer
- 3. Nakatini Serenade
- 4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
- 5. Lover
- 6. Russian Lullaby
- 7. Theme For Ernie
DISC THIRTEEN
- 1. You Say You Care
- 2. Good Bait
- 3. I Want To Talk About You
- 4. Lyresto
- 5. Why Was I Born?
- 6. Freight Trane
- 7. I Never Knew
- 8. Big Paul
DISC FOURTEEN
- 1. Rise 'n' Shine
- 2. I See Your Face Before Me
- 3. If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
- 4. Little Melonae
- 5. By The Numbers
- 6. Black Pearls
DISC FIFTEEN
- 1. Lover, Come Back To Me
- 2. Sweet Sapphire Blues
- 3. Spring Is Here
- 4. Invitation
- 5. I'm A Dreamer (Aren't We All)
- 6. Love Thy Neighbor
- 7. Don't Take Your Love From Me
DISC SIXTEEN
- 1. Stardust
- 2. My Ideal
- 3. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
- 4. Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
- 5. Then I'll Be Tired Of You
- 6. Something I Dreamed Last Night
- 7. Bahia
- 8. Goldsboro Express
- 9. Time After Time
















