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Soultrane

Soultrane
John Coltrane - Soultrane.jpg
Studio album by John Coltrane
Released Mid October 1958
Recorded February 7, 1958
Genre Jazz
Length 39:56
Label Prestige
Producer
John Coltrane chronology
John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio
(1958)
Soultrane
(1958)
Giant Steps
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
The Penguin Guide to Jazz 3.5/4 stars
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 5/5 stars

Soultrane is the fourth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7142. It was recorded at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, three days after a Columbia Records session for Miles Davis and the Milestones album.

The album is a showcase for Coltrane's late-1950s "sheets of sound" style, the term itself coined by critic Ira Gitler in the album's liner notes. Also featured is a long reading of Billy Eckstine's ballad standard "I Want to Talk About You", which Coltrane would revisit often during his career, most notably on the album Live at Birdland. Among the other tracks are popular theme "Good Bait" by Tadd Dameron, and Fred Lacey's elegiac "Theme for Ernie". "You Say You Care" is from the Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

The album closes with a brief, frenetic version of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby". Producer relates Coltrane's humorous interpretation:

Soultrane takes its title from a song on a 1956 album by Tadd Dameron featuring Coltrane, Mating Call. "Soultrane" does not appear on this Soultrane, and none of the five tunes on Soultrane is an original by Coltrane. The song "Theme for Ernie" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2005 film Hollywoodland.


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