Standard Coltrane

Performer: John Coltrane
Artist: Wilbur Harden; Red Garland; Paul Chambers; Jimmy Cobb
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Wilbur Harden (trumpet); Red Garland (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); Jimmy Cobb (drums). Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on July 11, 1958. Originally released on Prestige (7243). Includes liner notes by Robert Levin and Michael Cuscuna. Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1990, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). This is a Hybrid Super Audio CD playable on Super Audio CD players and regular CD players. Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Wilbur Harden (trumpet); Red Garland (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); Jimmy Cobb (drums). Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on July 11, 1958. Originally released on Prestige (7243). Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Wilbur Harden (trumpet); Red Garland (piano); Paul Chambers (bass instrument, upright bass); Jimmy Cobb (drums, drum). An indispensable recording for admirers of Coltrane's ballad playing, STANDARD COLTRANE emphasizes this moving, stirring aspect of Coltrane's career. The four long tracks serve as a reminder that the tenor saxophonist's skill does not lie exclusively in his faster, more energetic work, but that he is capable of great tenderness and romanticism. "Invitation" and "Don't Take Your Love From Me" are replete with the kind of singing solos Coltrane excels in, with his sax assuming all the tones and pitches of a human voice. While indisputably romantic, STANDARD COLTRANE is not sentimental, and it suffers only from a bit of disorganization here and there, as well as the sense of Coltrane holding back from his own explorations to be in sync with his rhythm section. There is a vague underlying ambivalence on "I'll Get By" and "Spring Is Here" when the musicians seem to be heading in different directions, but this emotionally satisfying album is not ruined by these lapses.

Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he session finds Trane applying his 'sheets of sound' ethos to four jazz standards."

Through both the force of his music and his personal character, saxophonist John Coltrane remains among the most influential jazz artists of all time. After a stint with the classic Miles Davis band of the late 1950s, the tenor titan embarked on a decade of staggering creativity. With the daunting GIANT STEPS, he exploded the possibilities of post-bop harmony; subsequently, he formed his "classic quartet" with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones--the ideal group for Coltrane's ever-expanding sonic vocabulary. As the '60s progressed, he also added the soprano sax to the mix and explored the use of modes, before finally moving on to the inspired free playing on records such as ASCENSION and INTERSTELLAR SPACE in his last years.

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