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Coltrane
Studio album by John Coltrane
Released	August 1962
Recorded	April 11, June 19, 20, and 29, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Modal jazz
Length	39:55
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele
John Coltrane chronology
Live! at the Village Vanguard (1961) Coltrane (1962) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1962)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. When reissued on CD, it featured a Coltrane composition dedicated to his hero "Big Nick" Nicholas which Coltrane would record later the same year with his Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. The composition "Tunji" was written by Coltrane in dedication to the Nigerian drummer, Babatunde Olatunji.

Critical reception

Allmusic's Michael G. Nastos gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a most focused effort, a relatively popular session to both his fans or latecomers, with five selections that are brilliantly conceived and rendered." He found Coltrane "simply masterful" on tenor saxophone with a "fully formed instrumental voice" that "shine through in the most illuminating manner", and wrote of the album's standing in his catalog:

Even more than any platitudes one can heap on this extraordinary recording, it historically falls between the albums Olé Coltrane and Impressions — completing a triad of studio efforts that are as definitive as anything Coltrane ever produced, and highly representative of him in his prime.

Francis Davis of The Village Voice felt that, apart from the "modal, three-quarter time novelty hit" "The Inch Worm", consumers should buy the album for "the gorgeous 'Soul Eyes' and a shattering 'Out of This World'".

Track listing

Side one

1. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen) — 14:06
2. "Soul Eyes" (Mal Waldron) — 5:26

Side two

1. "The Inch Worm" (Frank Loesser) — 6:19
2. "Tunji" (Coltrane) — 6:33
3. "Miles' Mode" (Coltrane) — 7:31

• Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–5 on CD reissue.

1997 CD bonus tracks

6. "Big Nick" (Coltrane) — 4:04
7. "Up 'Gainst The Wall" (Coltrane) — 3:13

2002 deluxe edition

Disc One

1. "Out of This World"  — 14:04
2. "Soul Eyes"  — 5:25
3. "The Inch Worm"  — 6:14
4. "Tunji"  — 6:32
5. "Miles' Mode"  — 7:31

Disc Two

1. "Not Yet" (Tyner) — 6:13
2. "Miles' Mode" — 7:08
3. "Tunji" — 10:41
4. "Tunji" — 7:55
5. "Tunji" — 7:16
6. "Tunji" — 7:48
7. "Impressions" (Coltrane) — 6:32
8. "Impressions" — 4:33
9. "Big Nick"  — 4:28
10. "Up 'Gainst the Wall"  — 3:15

Personnel

• John Coltrane — tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
• McCoy Tyner — piano
• Jimmy Garrison — bass
• Elvin Jones — drums
• Pete Turner - photography

References

1. Billboard Aug 18, 1962
2. Down Beat: October 11, 1962 vol. 29, no. 26
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 46. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
5. ^ Nastoes, Michael G. Review: Coltrane. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-10-05.
6. Frances Davis (2006-05-30). "The John Coltrane Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2009-10-18.

External links

• Coltrane at Discogs (list of releases)

• 1962 albums
• John Coltrane albums
• Albums produced by Bob Thiele
• Impulse! Records albums
• Modal jazz albums
• Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio