Name: John Coltrane: Blue Train
Release year: 1957
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Saxophone Jazz
Artist: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Kenny Drew (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums)

Description:

Blue Train is the second studio album by John Coltrane, released in 1957 on Blue Note Records, catalog BLP 1577. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, it is Coltrane's second solo album, As a leader, and the only one he conceived personally for the label. It has been certified a gold record by the RIAA.

He was in the midst of Coltrane's residency at the Spot as a member of the Thelonious Monk quartet. The personnel include Coltrane's once and the future Miles Davis bandmates, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums, both of whom had played on pianist Kenny Drew's trio album on Riverside Records the year before. Both trumpeter Lee Morgan and trombonist Curtis Fuller were up-and-coming jazz musicians, and both would be members of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, working together on Blakey's acclaimed Indesctructible album among others.

All of the compositions were written by Coltrane, with the exception of the standard "I'm Old Fashioned." The title track is a long, rhythmically variegated blues with a sentimental minor theme that gradually shifts to major during the Coltrane's first chorus. "Locomotion" is also a blues riff tune, in forty-four-bar form. During a 1960 interview, Coltrane described the Blue Train as his own.

Mastered by Alan Yashida, alternate takes Mastered by Robert Vosgien at Capitol Mastering.

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Two years ago, we decided to begin remastering the jewels of the Blue Note catalog in hi-def resolutions of 96k and 192k. In order to develop a guiding art philosophy for this delicate endeavor, we donned our lab coats, ran dozens of sonic experiments and carefully referenced every generation of our reissues. Ultimately, we decided that our goal would be to protect the original intentions of the artists, producers and engineers who made these records and that, in the case of the pre-digital-era albums, these intentions were best represented by the sound and feel of Their first-edition vinyl releases. Working with a team of dedicated and groovy engineers, we found a sound that both took the feel of the original records while maintaining the depth and transparency of the master tapes ... the new remasters are really cool! --Don Was, President, Blue Note Records

On January 6, 2014 Blue Note Records turned 75! Blue Note - A jazz label founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Blue Note Records is owned by the British media group EMI Group. In 2006, the company became part of the Blue Note Label Group, a grouping of labels based on EMI. The activities of the labels Blue Note Label Group is aimed at meeting the growing demand for music for the adult generation.

Historically, Blue Note Records is associated with the jazz style of hard bop (a mixture of bebop with other genres, including soul, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel). With the label there were such famous musicians as: Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson, Donald Bird, Grant Green. Nevertheless, the cooperation of many famous jazzmen with Blue Note Records was episodic, and many recorded on the label only once.

Many albums released by Blue Note Records were awarded a special award in the ninth edition of Penguin Guide to Jazz. Of the eighty albums that received the awards, eight were released Blue Note Records. Of the 213 albums that were included in the "central collection" of Penguin Guide to Jazz, 27 were released on Blue Note Records.

Tracklist:
1. Blue Train
2. Moment's Notice
3. Locomotion
4. I'm Old Fashioned
5. Lazy Bird
  Bonus Tracks:
6. Blue Train (Take 7)
7. Blue Train (Take 8)
8. Lazy Bird (Take 1)
9. Lazy Bird (Take 2)

Issued: United States | Universal Music
Duration: 1:15:51