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HIGH-DEFINITION PREMIUM VINYL PRESSING FOR SUPER FIDELITY
180 gram VINYL AUDIOPHILE PRESSING
Coltrane’s sessions for Atlantic in late October 1960 were prolific, yielding the material for My Favorite Things, Coltrane Plays the Blues, and Coltrane’s Sound. My Favorite Things was destined to be the most remembered and influential of these, and while Coltrane Plays the Blues is not as renowned or daring in material, it is still a powerful session. As for the phrase plays the blues in the title, that’s not so much an indicator that the tunes are conventional blues (which they aren’t). It’s more indicative of a bluesy sensibility, whether he is playing muscular saxophone or, on Blues to Bechet and Mr. Syms, the more unusual-sounding (at the time) soprano sax. Elvin Jones, who hadn’t been in Coltrane’s band long, really busts out on the quicker numbers, such as Blues to You and Mr. Day. (Richie Unterberger)
JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax & soprano sax (on A2 & B2 only)
McCOY TYNER, piano (out on A2, A3 & B4)
STEVE DAVIS, bass
ELVIN JONES, drums
New York, October 24, 1960.
SIDE A:
1 BLUES TO ELVIN 7:52
2 BLUES TO BECHET 5:44
3 BLUES TO YOU 6:25
SIDE B:
1 MR. DAY 7:56
2 MR. SYMS 5:19
3 MR. KNIGHT 7:30
4 BLUES TO YOU [alternate take] 5:32*
BONUS TRACK.
From the same session but not includedon the original album.
All compositions by JOHN COLTRANEexcept Blues to Elvin (Elvin Jones)
Label: WaxTime
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