Black Pearls

Performer: Original Soundtrack/John Coltrane
Artist: Donald Byrd; Red Garland; Paul Chambers; Art Taylor
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Donald Byrd (trumpet); Red Garland (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); Art Taylor (drums). Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on May 23, 1958. Originally released on Prestige (7316). This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: John Coltrane (saxophone, tenor saxophone); Donald Byrd (trumpet); Red Garland (piano); Paul Chambers (bass instrument); Art Taylor (drums). Recorded in the late-1950s, the John Coltrane of BLACK PEARLS is not the shining, legendary beacon of free jazz he eventually became by the mid-'60s. At the time of PEARLS, Coltrane was a member of the Miles Davis Quintet, and this was one of his solo ventures. Like many Prestige discs of this period, it's a straight-ahead hard-bop jam session. Featuring sterling accompaniment by Red Garland (also then with Davis) on piano and Donald Byrd's crackling trumpet, PEARLS displays Coltrane's surging sheets-of-sound approach in full flower.

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