- 1A Love Supreme is a studio album recorded by John Coltrane's quartet in December 1964 and released by Impulse! Records in February 1965. It is generally considered to be among Coltrane's greatest works, as it melded the hard bop sensibilities of his early career with the modal jazz and free jazz styles he adopted later. The quartet recorded the album in one session on December 9, 1964, at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Coltrane's home in Dix Hills, Long Island, has been suggested as the site of inspiration for A Love Supreme. Coltrane's exposure to Ahmadiyya Islam has also been suggested as a source of influence.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement, A Love Supreme
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Post-bop, Avant-garde jazz, Modal jazz
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- 2Blue Train is the second studio album by John Coltrane, released in 1957 on Blue Note Records, catalogue BLP 1577. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, it is Coltrane's second solo album, the only one he recorded for Blue Note as a leader, and the only one he conceived personally for the label. It has been certified a gold record by the RIAA.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Producer: Alfred Lion
- Tracks: I'm Old Fashioned, Moment’s Notice, Blue Train
- Length (mins): 00:42:15
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Hard bop
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- 3Giant Steps is the fifth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane as leader, released in 1960 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1311. His first album for his new label Atlantic, it is the breakthrough album for Coltrane as a leader, and many of its tracks have become practice templates for jazz saxophonists. In 2004, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Spiral, Cousin Mary, Giant Steps
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Bebop, Hard bop
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- 4My Favorite Things is the seventh studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD-1361. It was the first album to feature Coltrane playing soprano saxophone, and yielded a commercial breakthrough in the form of a hit single that gained popularity in 1961 on radio, an edited version of the title song, "My Favorite Things." In 1998, the album was a recipient of the Grammy Hall of Fame award.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Producer: Nesuhi Ertegün
- Tracks: My Favorite Things, Summertime, But Not for Me
- Length (mins): 00:40:39
- Label: Atlantic Records
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz, Modal jazz
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- 5Crescent is a 1964 studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released by Impulse! as A-66. It features his jazz quartet group of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones playing all original Coltrane compositions, with the leader playing tenor saxophone exclusively. It is commonly regarded as the saxophonist's darkest album. Only the brief, infectious medium-up "Bessie's Blues", and a samba-tinged groove in the midsection of the otherwise sedate "Wise One", break the sombre mood.
- Artist: John Coltrane Quartet, John Coltrane
- Tracks: The Drum Thing, Wise One, Lonnie's Lament
- Length (mins): 00:40:34
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Avant-garde jazz, Hard bop, Modal jazz
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- 6Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. When reissued on CD, it featured a Coltrane composition dedicated to his hero "Big Nick" Nicholas which Coltrane would record later the same year with his Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane.
- Artist: John Coltrane Quartet, John Coltrane
- Tracks: Out of This World, Miles' Mode, Soul Eyes
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Modal jazz
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- 7Olé Coltrane is the ninth album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1962 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1373. The album was recorded at A&R Studios in New York, and was the last of Coltrane's Atlantic albums to be made under his own supervision.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Dahomey Dance, Olé, Aisha
- Label: Atlantic Records
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz, Modal jazz
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- 8Soultrane is the fourth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7142. It was recorded 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.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: You Say You Care, I Want to Talk About You, Good Bait
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 9Africa/Brass is the eighth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Impulse! Records, catalogue A-6. The sixth release for the fledgling label and Coltrane's first for Impulse!, it features Coltrane's working quartet augmented by a larger ensemble to bring the total number of participating musicians to 21. Its big band sound, with the unusual instrumentation of French horns and euphonium, presented music very different from anything that had been associated with Coltrane to date.
- Artist: John Coltrane Quartet, John Coltrane
- Tracks: Greensleeves, Blues Minor, Africa
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz
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- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane recorded on September 26, 1962, and released in February 1963 on Impulse! Records. For Ellington, it was one of many collaborations with fellow jazz-greats in the early 1960s, including Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus, and placed him in a jazz quartet setting, rather than his usual one in a big band. For Coltrane, it was an opportunity to work with one of jazz's all-time greats. It was one of several albums he recorded in the early 1960s in a more conservative and accessible style, including John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman and Ballads. Despite their differences in background, style, and age – Ellington was 63 and Coltrane 36 when the tracks were recorded – it has been said that the two interacted seamlessly and subtly, neither one outshining the other. The quartet was filled out by the bassist and drummer from either of their bands. The album featured Ellington standards, new Ellington compositions, and a new Coltrane composition. Coltrane said: I was really honoured to have the opportunity of working with Duke. It was a wonderful experience.
- Artist: Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
- Producer: Bob Thiele
- Tracks: Take the Coltrane, Stevie, Big Nick
- Length (mins): 00:35:10
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 11Ballads is a jazz album by John Coltrane. It was recorded in December 1961 and 1962, and released on the Impulse! label in 1963 as A-32 and later AS-32. Critic Gene Lees stated that the quartet had never played the tunes before. "They arrived with music-store sheet music of the songs" and just before the recordings, they "would discuss each tune, write out copies of the changes they'd use, semi-rehearse for a half hour and then do it". Each piece was recorded in one take, except for "All or Nothing at All". In 2008, the album was a recipient of the Grammy Hall of Fame award.
- Artist: John Coltrane Quartet, John Coltrane
- Tracks: All or Nothing at All, You Don’t Know What Love Is, It’s Easy to Remember
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 12Lush Life is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7188. It is assembled from unissued results of three separate recording sessions at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1957 and 1958. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Like Someone in Love, Lush Life, I Love You
- Length (mins): 00:36:28
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane is a 1961 album by Thelonious Monk issued on Jazzland Records, a subsidiary of Riverside Records. It consists of material recorded four years earlier when Monk worked extensively with John Coltrane, issued after Coltrane had become a leader and jazz star in his own right. The album was assembled by the label with material from three different sessions. The impetus for the album was the discovery of three usable studio tracks recorded by the Monk Quartet with Coltrane in July of 1957 at the beginning of the band's six-month residency at New York's legendary Five Spot club near Cooper Square.[2] To round out the release, producer Keepnews included two outtakes from the Monk's Music album recorded the previous month, and an additional outtake from Thelonious Himself recorded in April.[3] The latter selection, "Functional," is a solo piano piece by Monk. It was reissued in 2000 on Fantasy Records as part of its series for back catalogue using the JVC 20-bit K2 coding system. Because of the historical significance of this album it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.[4]
- Artist: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane
- Tracks: Epistrophy (alternate take), Trinkle, Tinkle
- Length (mins): 00:37:51
- Label: Jazzland
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- 14Coltrane's Sound is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1964 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1419. It was recorded at Atlantic Studios during the sessions for My Favorite Things, assembled after Coltrane had stopped recording for the label and was under contract to Impulse Records. Like Prestige and Blue Note Records before them, as Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s Atlantic used unissued recordings and released them without either Coltrane's input or approval. On February 16, 1999, Rhino Records reissued Coltrane's Sound as part of its Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Gallery series. Included were two bonus tracks: "26-2" had been previously released on the 1970 album The Coltrane Legacy; and the alternate take of "Body and Soul" had been released on the 1975 album Alternate Takes.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Equinox, Central Park West, Liberia
- Label: Atlantic Records
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 15Coltrane Jazz is the sixth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1354. It marks the first appearance of the early John Coltrane Quartet on record, featuring pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Fifth House, Harmonique, I'll Wait and Pray
- Label: Atlantic Records
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 17Ascension is a jazz album by John Coltrane recorded in 1965 and released in 1966. It is often considered to be a watershed album, with the albums released before it being more conventional in structure and the albums released after it being looser, free jazz inspired works. In addition, it signaled Coltrane's interest in moving away from the quartet format. Coltrane described Ascension in a radio interview as a "big band thing", although it resembles no big band recording made before it. The most obvious antecedent is Ornette Coleman's octet recording, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, which—like Ascension—is a continuous 40-minute performance with ensemble passages and without breaks. Jazz musician Dave Liebman, commenting on Ascension, recalled that the album was the "torch that lit the free jazz thing".
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Producer: Bob Thiele
- Tracks: Ascension, Part II, Ascension
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz
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- Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane is an album credited to jazz musicians Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane. Recorded on March 7, 1958, it was originally released on the New Jazz label as NJ 8276 in 1963, then reissued in 1967 on Prestige as PRLP 7532, with a different cover and retitled The Kenny Burrell Quintet With John Coltrane. Lindsay Planer of Allmusic gave it 4 stars, stating: "While not one of Coltrane's most assured performances, he chases the groove right into the hands of Burrell. The guitarist spins sonic gold and seems to inspire similar contributions from Chambers' bowed bass and Coltrane alike."
- Artist: John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell
- Tracks: Never Knew, Freight Trane, Freight Trane
- Length (mins): 00:37:31
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 20Coltrane is the debut album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1957 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7105. 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 First Trane.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Chronic Blues, Time Was, Straight Street
- Genres (Music): Hard bop
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- 21Coltrane Plays the Blues is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1962 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1382. It was recorded at Atlantic Studios during the sessions for My Favorite Things, assembled after Coltrane had stopped recording for the label and was under contract to Impulse Records. Like Prestige Records before them, as Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s, Atlantic used unissued recordings and released them without either Coltrane's input or approval. On September 19, 2000, Rhino Records reissued Coltrane Plays the Blues as part of its Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Gallery series. Included were five bonus tracks, all of which had appeared in 1995 on The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Mr. Syms, Blues to Elvin, Mr. Day
- Label: Atlantic Records
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman is a 1963 studio album featuring John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman.
- Artist: Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane
- Tracks: Dedicated to You, They Say It's Wonderful, Lush Life
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 24Interstellar Space was one of the final studio albums recorded by the saxophonist John Coltrane before his death in 1967, released posthumously by Impulse! Records on LP in 1974.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Mars, Jupiter, Jupiter Variation
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz
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- 25Stardust is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1963 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7268. It is assembled from unissued results of two separate recording sessions at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1958. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Then I'll Be Tired of You, Time After Time, Stardust
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 26John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio is the third studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, issued in 1958 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7123. It was recorded at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey. In 1961 it was reissued as Traneing In, Prestige catalogue 7651, and given a different cover photo, as pictured. The album was reissued on compact disc in 2007 as part of the Concord Music Group remastering series by Rudy Van Gelder, also doing a similar series for Blue Note Records.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Red Garland Trio
- Tracks: You Leave Me Breathless, Traneing In, Slow Dance
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 28Settin' the Pace is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7213. It is assembled from unissued results of a single recording session at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1958. Coltrane on tenor saxophone is accompanied by the Red Garland Trio with Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Taylor on drums. With Garland and Chambers Coltrane had played together since at least October 1955 in Miles Davis' band. With Art Taylor they were part of the Tenor Conclave recordings in September 1956. As a quartet they had already recorded two albums for Prestige, John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio and Soultrane. The material the quartet recorded on this session were extended interpretations of three popular songs not played by jazz musicians before, and "Little Melonae", a classic bebop tune written by Jackie McLean.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Rise 'n' Shine, Little Melonae, If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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1958All Mornin' Long is a jazz album by pianist Red Garland and his quintet. It was originally issued in 1958 on the Prestige label and catalogued as PRLP 7130. It features only three pieces, which belong to the hard bop subgenre and distinguish themselves by being fast-paced and bluesy. Critic Ira Gitler found the album satisfactory and said that the eponymous first piece was a "many-splendored, deep-dish demonstration of feeling, mood and melody".- Artist: Red Garland, The Red Garland Quintet
- Tracks: They Can't Take That Away From Me, Our Delight, All Mornin' Long
- Genres (Music): Hard bop
- 30Standard Coltrane is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1962 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7243. It is assembled from unissued results of a single recording session at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1958. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Invitation, Spring Is Here, Don't Take Your Love From Me
- Label: Concord Records
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- 31Black Pearls is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1964 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7316. It is assembled from the results of a single recording session at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval. On that Friday session, "the songs weren't long enough for a whole album", recalled producer Bob Weinstock in 2001, "so I said Let's do a slow blues to finish it out." Coltrane invited Weinstock to write the song on the spot, but he didn't know music, so Coltrane replied "Just tell me what you want me to play. Should it go like this?" and he would play some notes. After having played a rough melody, he'd say "Okay, you wrote it." That was the genesis of "Sweet Sapphire Blues".
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Sweet Sapphire Blues, Black Pearls, Lover
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 32Bags & Trane is an album credited to jazz musicians Milt Jackson and John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1368. Taking its title from Jackson and Coltrane's nicknames, it is the only collaborative record by the pair, although only Jackson contributed original compositions. In actuality, the album belongs in Jackson's discography, as he was the session leader and still signed to Atlantic under the auspices of the Modern Jazz Quartet, and not in Coltrane's, who had left the label for Impulse Records at the time of this album's issue. However, like Prestige Records before them, as Coltrane's fame grew after he had stopped recording for the label, Atlantic used varied unissued recordings and released them with Coltrane's name more prominently displayed.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Milt Jackson
- Tracks: Be-Bop, The Late Late Blues, Bags & Trane
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Hard bop
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- 33The Believer is a jazz album credited to John Coltrane released in 1964 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7292. It is an amalgam of two tracks reissued from New Jazz Records 8228 The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane released in 1960, with three unissued tracks by Coltrane as a leader from two separate recording sessions in 1958. All tracks were recorded at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige assembled varied recordings, often those where Coltrane had been merely a sideman, and reissued them as a new album with Coltrane's name prominently displayed.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?, The Believer, Nakatini Serenade
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 34Bahia is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1965 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7353. It is assembled from unissued results of two separate recording sessions at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1958. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval. Bahia is the last known album of this category while recording with Prestige.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Something I Dreamed Last Night, I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All?
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Hard bop
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- 35The Avant-Garde is an album credited to jazz musicians John Coltrane and Don Cherry, released in 1966 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1451. It features Coltrane playing the compositions of Ornette Coleman accompanied by the members of Coleman's quartet: Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell. It is assembled from unissued results of two separate recording sessions at the Atlantic Studios in New York City in 1960. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Atlantic, like Prestige before it, used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval. This is the last known album by John Coltrane in this category, and only the second collaboration in this category of recordings.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Don Cherry, John Coltrane and Don Cherry
- Tracks: The Blessing, Cherryco, The Invisible
- Length (mins): 00:36:20
- Genres (Music): Jazz fusion, Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz
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- 36Kulu Sé Mama is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane. Recorded during 1965, it was released in early 1967 as Impulse! A-9106. The title piece and "Selflessness" were recorded in October 1965 and feature a large ensemble including Sanders, Garrett, Butler and Lewis. The other tracks, "Vigil", "Welcome" and "Dusk Dawn", feature the "classic quartet". "Kulu Sé Mama" was composed by Juno Lewis, whilst other titles are credited to Coltrane. "Selflessness" was first released on the posthumous album Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things, and "Dusk Dawn" was first released on the posthumous album Living Space. Kulu Sé Mama was the last album released during Coltrane's lifetime.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Vigil, Welcome, Kulu Sé Mama (Juno Sé Mama)
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz
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- 39Dakar is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1963 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7280. Dakar is a reissue of one side of a 16 rpm LP called Baritones and French Horns released in 1957, and originally credited to the "Prestige All Stars". As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s after he had stopped recording for Prestige, the record company assembled and reissued varied Coltrane recordings with his name prominently displayed, though in many cases, like on Dakar, he had originally been a sideman. However, a retrospective review for Allmusic suggested that issuing the album as if it were originally led by Coltrane was appropriate given that his "urgent" performances were often the most compelling.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Route 4, Witches' Pit, Mary's Blues
- Genres (Music): Hard bop
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- 40Mating Call is an album by jazz musician Tadd Dameron issued in 1957 on Prestige Records, catalog 7070. It was recorded at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey. All tracks were composed by Tadd Dameron.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Tadd Dameron, Tadd Dameron & John Coltrane
- Tracks: Gnid, Super Jet, Soultrane
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 41Transition is an album of music by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, recorded in 1965 but released posthumously only in 1970. As its title indicates, Transition was a bridge between classic quartet recordings like A Love Supreme and the more experimental works of Coltrane's last years. For some reason, Impulse! decided to alter the track listing of the original album on the CD edition, removing "Dear Lord" and replacing it with two pieces originally released on Kulu Sé Mama, both recorded on June 10: "Welcome" and "Vigil". However, the 2001 Japanese edition restored the original track listing. Coltrane's playing alternates between blues idioms and the free jazz that would dominate his final work. Of the four musicians on this album, pianist McCoy Tyner was still the most grounded in traditional jazz. Bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones were finding new ways to approach their instruments, while Coltrane took the lead with a newfound musical freedom. Transition's title track is a fifteen-minute modified blues, whilst "Dear Lord" is a ballad featuring Roy Haynes substituting for Jones on drums.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Dear Lord, Transition, Suite: Prayer and Meditation: Day / Peace and After / Prayer and Meditation: Evening / Affirmation / Prayer and Meditation: 4 A.M.
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 42Tenor Conclave is an album by Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane and Zoot Sims. The album was originally recorded in 1956 and issued in 1957 on Prestige as PRLP 7074. However, as Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige would re-release it in 1962 as a new album, with a different cover prominently displaying Coltrane's name. Said album was given the catalogue number PRLP 7249.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Al Cohn, Hank Mobley, Zoot Sims, The Prestige All Stars
- Tracks: Bob's Boys, Just You, Just Me
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 43The Cats is an album credited to jazz musicians Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, and Idrees Sulieman, released in 1959 on New Jazz, a subsidiary label of Prestige Records. It was issued after Coltrane had already ceased recording for the label.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Idrees Sulieman
- Tracks: Tommy's Time, Solacium, Eclypso
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 44Sun Ship is a posthumously released jazz album recorded on August 26, 1965, by tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. The album extended the free jazz ideas of Transition. The relaxed, serene feel of earlier ballads like "Welcome" was transformed into a new style of ballad on "Dearly Beloved" and "Attaining". This style involved very slow tempos, drum rolls and fills, and a louder, more intense feel than traditional jazz ballads. Like "Psalm", there is no real tune, just a scale or series of tones used to build an improvised theme. Coltrane's solos on the other tracks are also more extreme than on his earlier albums, and are reminiscent of the style of Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders in their extensive use of altissimo and multiphonics. Sun Ship was one of the only albums John Coltrane's quartet recorded without sound engineer Rudy Van Gelder. It was also one of the last albums which John Coltrane recorded before he began experimenting with larger groups. Tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was playing regularly with the band by September, 1965, and both McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones left the band in January, 1966.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Producer: Bob Thiele
- Tracks: Sun Ship, Dearly Beloved, Amen
- Genres (Music): Avant-garde jazz
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- The John Coltrane Quartet Plays is a 1965 album by jazz musician John Coltrane.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Chim Chim Cheree, Song of Praise, Brazilia
- Genres (Music): Post-bop, Avant-garde jazz
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- 48The Last Trane is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1965 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7378. It is assembled from unissued results of three separate recording sessions at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1957 and 1958. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Come Rain or Come Shine, Lover, Slowtrane
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- Artist: John Coltrane, The Red Garland Quintet
- Tracks: Billie's Bounce, On Green Dolphin Street, Our Delight
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- 55Meditations is a 1966 album by John Coltrane. The album was considered the "spiritual follow-up to A Love Supreme." It features Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders as soloists, both playing tenor saxophones. Much of the recording is fairly avant-garde, featuring extensive passages in free rhythm and extended saxophone techniques such as honked and overblown notes, as well as multiphonics. This would be the last Coltrane recording with long-time partners drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner. Alternative versions of tracks 2–5, later issued as First Meditations, not issued until 12 years later in 1977, had been recorded in September 1965 by the same musicians minus Rashied Ali and Sanders, and were more restrained, containing less squealing and fewer overblown notes.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Consequences, Serenity, Compassion
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz, Hard bop, Modal jazz
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- 56Stereo Drive is an album by jazz musician Cecil Taylor featuring John Coltrane, released in 1959 on United Artists Records, catalogue UAS 5014. The mono edition was issued as UAL 4014 with the title Hard Driving Jazz, and later reissued under Coltrane's name in 1963 as Coltrane Time. Compact disc reissues appeared on the Blue Note Records label credited to Coltrane. It is the only known recording featuring both Coltrane and Taylor. 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; and the result was an unpleasantly tension-filled session that was ultimately unsatisfactory to the pianist.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor & John Coltrane
- Producer: Tom Wilson
- Tracks: Double Clutching, Just Friends, Shifting Down
- Length (mins): 00:33:40
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette is an album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette, released in 1959 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7158. It was recorded at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, and issued two years after the recording sessions took place and after Coltrane's contract had already run out with the label.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Paul Quinichette
- Tracks: Cattin', Exactly Like You, Anatomy
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 60Jazz Way Out is an album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden, the second of the three Savoy 1958 recordings made by Coltrane and Harden together. The session also produced an alternate take of "Dial Africa", which can be found on some compilations, most notably the ones featuring the complete Savoy recordings made by Harden and Coltrane together, The Complete Mainstream 1958 Sessions and The Complete Savoy Sessions.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Wilbur Harden
- Tracks: Oomba, Gold Coast, Dial Africa
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 61Expression is an album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The title track was Coltrane's last studio recording; the rest of the album was recorded at about the same time as Interstellar Space. "To Be" features Coltrane on flute, the only recording he made on the instrument for an entire track. Expression was the last studio album to be approved for release by Coltrane before his death in July 1967, and was released in September 1967.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Producer: Bob Thiele
- Tracks: Offering, To Be, Ogunde
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 62Om is a 1968 album by John Coltrane recorded in October 1965. Om refers to the sacred syllable in Hinduism, which symbolizes the infinite or the entire Universe. Coltrane described Om as the "first syllable, the primal word, the word of power". Issued posthumously, the 29-minute recording contains chants from the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu holy book, as well as Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders chanting from a Buddhist text, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and reciting a passage describing the primal verbalization "om" as a cosmic/spiritual common denominator in all things. It is believed that Coltrane was using LSD during the recording, though some people have said this is only a myth. It was included on The Major Works of John Coltrane CD released in 1992.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Om, Part 1, Om
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz
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- First Meditations (for quartet) is an album by John Coltrane recorded in 1965. It is a quartet version of a suite Coltrane would record as Meditations two months later with the additions of Pharoah Sanders as a second tenor saxophone and Rashied Ali on drums. Not released initially until 1977, the album witnesses the final recording of Coltrane's classic quartet featuring bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner; later records included other musicians.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Tracks: Compassion, Joy, Serenity
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz, Modal jazz
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- 64Cosmic Music is a jazz album by John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. It was originally released after John Coltrane's death. On this release, John Coltrane only plays on "Manifestation" and "Reverend King". "Lord, Help Me to Be" and "The Sun" were later included as bonus tracks on the CD reissue of Alice Coltrane's album A Monastic Trio.
- Artist: John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice and John Coltrane
- Tracks: The Sun, Manifestation, Lord
- Genres (Music): Jazz
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- 65Stellar Regions is a posthumous release by John Coltrane, discovered in 1994 by the artist's wife, Alice Coltrane, who plays the piano on the session. Alice Coltrane is also responsible for the titles of the eight numbers featured on the album, and the record itself can be considered a lost-tapes album, since it was not found for nearly three decades. The material on the album is not entirely previously unreleased: the same take of "Offering" was first issued on Coltrane's final studio album, Expression. Also, the track entitled "Stellar Regions" on this album is an early version of "Venus", first released in 1974 on the sax-drums duo album, Interstellar Space. Stellar Regions was recorded the week prior to the session that gave rise to that album, and features many similar note choices and runs; indeed, the "Venus" solo is also presaged here by portions of "Offering" and "Sun Star". The former song and also "Tranesonic" anticipate the fascination with polyrhythm and spare, duo arrangements that would dominate the Interstellar Space sessions. This is one of Coltrane's most accessible later albums: the numbers are brief and distinctly structured.
- Artist: John Coltrane
- Producer: Bob Thiele
- Tracks: Seraphic Light, Configuration, Tranesonic
- Length (mins): 01:00:56
- Genres (Music): Jazz, Free jazz
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