John Coltrane - The Ultimate Blue Train (1957)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer John Coltrane Title The Ultimate Blue Train Length 59:26 Discs: 1 Tracks: 7 Format HQ 192+ kbps Packaging Jewel Case Label Blue Note Cat. Number 8534280 Style Hard Bop; Jazz Rating N/A Recorded 1957-09-15

Track list

01 Blue Train (Coltrane) 10:43 02 Moment's Notice (Coltrane) 09:10 03 Locomotion (Coltrane) 07:16 04 I'm Old Fashioned (Kern/Mercer) 07:59 05 Lazy Bird (Coltrane) 07:07 06 Blue Train (Alternate Take) (Coltrane) 09:58 07 Lazy Bird (Alternate Take) (Coltrane) 07:13

Notes

AMG Review by Ken Dryden (3): How do you improve upon an already classic recording? By adding alternate takes and a CD-ROM program to the original issue. The newly added alternate takes of "Blue Train" (whose piano solo was lifted and spliced into the familiar master take) and "Lazy Bird" are welcome discoveries. The numerous photographs from the session and excerpts of a July 1995 interview with trombonist Curtis Fuller (the only surviving musician from this historic recording session) make this new enhanced CD well worth acquiring, even if you have the earlier CD. Audio interview excerpts from interviews with Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Johnny Griffin, Roy Haynes, Archie Shepp and others are also included.