Chi Coltrane - Let It Ride '1973; 2018

Tracks list

A year on from her first album, Coltrane took over production for Let It Ride,
recorded at Londons Trident Studios. The sound isnt vastly different, although
there is more backing vocal support (from vastly talented stalwart Merry
Clayton). Her songwriting was taking new and interesting turns. The debut had
shown a gift for pastiche, but Let It Ride frees her skills to run a little
wilder. Flyaway Bluebird creates an aural playground out of only a piano and a
handful of vocalists, and is her finest moment. The title track opens as a
rather routine ballad, only to transmogrify into an untamed, anguished
masterpiece, reminiscent of Laura Nyros best work. Coltrane reaches back to her
classical training for Forget Love -- an icily sophisticated composition with a
clever, almost Germanic piano accompaniment. The only criticism its possible to
level at Let It Ride is Coltranes tendency to eat up musical genres and spit out
instant, bite-size, expert examples of them. Shortnin Bread sounds like an
exercise from a How to Play the Blues textbook, and is the only time Coltranes
undoubted expertise is potentially tiresome. But when the only fault you can
find with an artist is her own virtuosity, theres little point in finding it.

Tracklist:
01. Chi Coltrane - Hallelujah (4:18)
02. Chi Coltrane - Let It Ride (4:48)
03. Chi Coltrane - Shortnin Bread (4:32)
04. Chi Coltrane - Different Ways (3:14)
05. Chi Coltrane - Fly-Away Bluebird (2:58)
06. Chi Coltrane - Who Ever Told You (3:48)
07. Chi Coltrane - Myself To You (3:24)
08. Chi Coltrane - Its Not Easy (2:44)
09. Chi Coltrane - Feather My Bed (1:42)
10. Chi Coltrane - Forget Love (5:56)

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