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Blue Train is a hard bop jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded on September 15, 1957, at the Van Gelder Studio. It is considered Coltrane's first solo album, as it is the first he recorded featuring musicians and songs entirely of his choosing. All of the compositions were written by Coltrane, except "I'm Old Fashioned", a Jerome Kern/Johnny Mercer standard. The title track is a long, rhythmically variegated blues with a brooding minor theme that gradually shifts to major during Coltrane's first chorus. "Locomotion" is also a blues riff tune, in thirty-two-bar form. The album was his only recording for Blue Note Records

Without reservation, Blue Train can easily be considered in and among the most important and influential entries not only of John Coltrane's career, but of the entire genre of jazz music as well.
- Lindsay Planer/AMG









John Coltrane - Blue Train 1957 LP-180g-24-96 aksman


Side A

      1 "Blue Train" (Coltrane) ? 10:43
      2 "Moment's Notice" (Coltrane) ? 9:10

Side B

      1 "Locomotion" (Coltrane) ? 7:14
      2 "I'm Old Fashioned" (Kern/Mercer) ? 7:58
      3 "Lazy Bird"(Coltrane) ? 7:00






Personnel


      John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
      Lee Morgan - trumpet
      Curtis Fuller - trombone
      Paul Chambers - bass
      Kenny Drew - piano
      Philly Joe Jones - drums
      Recorded on September 15, 1957.
      Rudy van Gelder - engineer
      Alfred Lion - producer





Technical Log

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 5.1 Turntable with Pro-Ject Speedbox
Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge
Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA
Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections by "Goldkabel"
Wavelab 5 recording software

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.