- jazz, hard bop, bop
- 42 min
- 6 tracks
- Prestige
Coltrane is a studio album by the American jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in October 1957 through Prestige Records. 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 The First Trane!.
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Character
Grave, earnest, character-led and spare.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- DownBeat3/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz3/4 ★
- The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide5/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1Bakai8:42
- A2Violets for Your Furs6:17
- A3Time Was7:29
- B1Straight Street6:19
- B2While My Lady Sleeps4:43
- B3Chronic Blues8:11
6 tracks, 42 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- John Coltrane
- Label
- Prestige
- Released
- 1957
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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