Coltrane '58: Prestige Recordings

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Even as he remained a star member of Miles Davis’ band, Coltrane really stepped out as a leader in ’58. That was the last year he recorded for Prestige (before moving to Atlantic), and it was in ’58 that Coltrane recorded these tracks in a series of three-hour sessions at Rudy Van Gelder’s home studio in New Jersey. Featuring Kenny Burrell, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Jimmy Cobb, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Tommy Flanagan, Wilbur Harden, Louis Hayes and Art Taylor, these tracks came out later across multiple albums, but now they’re been assembled in one place—in chronological order, too—for the first time. A 40-page booklet with notes by Ashley Kahn and rare photos by Francis Wolff and Esmond Edwards take us to the time and place as we hear these pivotal-year Coltrane performances of "Lush Life," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "The Believer," "Lover," "Russian Lullaby," "Theme for Ernie," "You Say You Care," "Good Bait," "Why Was I Born," "Freight Train," "I Never Knew," "Big Paul," "Rise and Shine," "By the Numbers," "Black Pearls," "Lover Come Back to Me," "Sweet Sapphire Blues," "Spring Is Here," "Invitation," "Love Thy Neighbor," "My Ideal," "Bahia," "Time After Time," "Something I Dreamed Last Night" and more on 5 CDs or in an opulent 8-LP vinyl box. It’s stunning to hear Coltrane’s artistic evolution during one calendar year, looking back six decades later! Concord.