John Coltrane - Gold '2006

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Album name	Gold
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Date	2006
Genre	Jazz
Play time	02:05:36
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	815 MB(+3\%)
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CD1

01. Blue Train (10:44)
02. Giant Steps (4:46)
03. Naima (4:24)
04. My Favorite Things (13:44)
05. Africa (16:33)
06. Spiritual (13:47)

CD2

01. Impressions (6:34)
02. In a Sentimental Mood (4:18)
03. All or Nothing at All (3:38)
04. Lush Life (5:30)
05. Alabama (5:12)
06. Afro Blue (10:53)
07. Crescent (8:45)
08. Wise One (9:05)
09. A Love Supreme: Part 1 - Acknowledgement (7:43)

Â John Coltrane presents several challenges to anyone trying to compile an
introductory collection of his recordings, as annotator Ashley Kahn describes
this 125-minute, two-disc set. Coltrane recorded prolifically; he recorded for
several different record labels that, despite decades of corporate mergers and
takeovers, remained separate as of 2006; and he changed styles radically during
his career. The major label Universal Music Entertainment, as the owner of the
Impulse! Records catalog, controls his recordings made from the middle of 1961
until his death six years later, the bulk of his work as a leader, and is thus
well positioned to attempt a best-of. Hip-O, the labels reissue imprint,
improves on this position by licensing tracks from his work for Blue Note and
Atlantic prior to his Impulse! tenure. (Nothing has been licensed from his first
record company affiliation to Prestige, now controlled by Concord; and none of
his early efforts as a sideman are included.) These are key tracks: the album
opens with the title song from Blue Notes Blue Train, his second album as a
leader and a tune that is heard with sufficient frequency in public places that
many people who dont know much about John Coltrane will recognize it. The two
selections from the Atlantic Giant Steps album are also vital inclusions, and
the third Atlantic licensing, My Favorite Things, is a Coltrane signature tune.
These relatively conventional performances ease the listener in to some of the
more difficult Impulse! material, which starts with the sixteen-and-a-half
minute Africa from the first Impulse! LP, Africa/Brass. The first disc ends,
surprisingly, with Spiritual from Live at the Village Vanguard, when most
Coltrane fans would have expected Chasin the Trane. The omission of this
definitive track is the only really puzzling one on the set. On the second disc,
Richard Seidel, who is credited with making the selections, opens with the
challenging Impressions from the 1962 album called simply Coltrane. Then, just
as Coltrane did, he pulls back to a more accessible sound with tracks from the
Duke Ellington duo album, the standards collection Ballads, and the
Coltrane/Johnny Hartman album before plunging on with freer and more difficult
music and closing with an excerpt from A Love Supreme, Coltranes most popular
album. In so doing, Seidel demonstrates that a compiler need not make the choice
between sequencing for listening pleasure and sequencing chronologically to tell
an artists story, as long as the right choices are made. Except for the missing
Chasin the Trane, Gold presents the tracks most Coltrane fans would choose given
the impossible task of compressing his legacy into an introductory two
hours.~William Ruhlmann

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