Fearless Leader

John Coltrane - Fearless Leader

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Artist: John Coltrane
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Prestige
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Straight Street
  2. While My Lady Sleeps
  3. Chronic Blues
  4. Bakai
  5. Violets for Your Furs
  6. Time Was
  7. I Hear a Rhapsody
  8. Trane's Slo Blues
  9. Slowtrane
  10. Like Someone in Love
  11. I Love You
Music CD 2
  1. You Leave Me Breathless
  2. Bass Blues
  3. Soft Lights and Sweet Music
  4. Traneing In
  5. Slow Dance
  6. Lush Life
  7. The Believer
  8. Nakatini Serenade
Music CD 3
  1. Come Rain or Come Shine
  2. Lover
  3. Russian Lullaby
  4. Theme for Ernie
  5. You Say You Care
  6. Good Bait
  7. I Want to Talk About You
  8. Rise 'N Shine
  9. I See Your Face Before Me
Music CD 4
  1. If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
  2. Little Melonae
  3. By the Numbers
  4. Black Pearls
  5. Lover Come Back to Me
  6. Sweet Sapphire Blues
Music CD 5
  1. Spring Is Here
  2. Invitation
  3. I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All
  4. Love Thy Neighbor
  5. Don't Take Your Love from Me
  6. Stardust
  7. My Ideal
  8. I'll Get By
Music CD 6
  1. Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
  2. Then I'll Be Tired of You
  3. Something I Dreamed Last Night
  4. Bahia
  5. Goldsboro Express
  6. Time After Time

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John Coltrane was a musical giant. Few jazzmen in the second half of the 20th century achieved the stature or had as much influence as he did. His 1960s output for the Atlantic and Impulse! labels was as important as any musician's catalog in any genre. Giant Steps, My Favorite Things and A Love Supreme rank at the top of anyone's listing of the jazz canon.

But prior to those landmark recordings, John Coltrane had built a reputation as a sideman during the 1950s, most prominently as an on-and-off sideman with Miles Davis in the latter half of the decade, culminating in the legendary Kind of Blue sessions in 1959. The following year he put together his own quartet and spent the rest of his life (he died in 1967) pushing the boundaries to unimagined places.

While working with Miles, and during one of those off-again periods with Thelonious Monk, Trane began making records as a leader for Prestige Records. From May, 1957, until the day after Christmas, 1958, he led nine different recording sessions yielding a treasure trove of music that would be issued by Prestige in various LP incarnations into the mid-`60s. Every one of those tracks has been collected in the new 6-disc box set, Fearless Leader. It's a remarkable statement.

Having kicked a heroin addiction in the month preceding the first session included here, Coltrane had a new lease on life. Getting the monkey off his back led to what he would later describe as a "spiritual awakening," and his saxophone playing took on a deeper intensity. This set documents the beginnings of what jazz critic Ira Gitler dubbed his "sheets of sound" style--he sounded like a man possessed, loading up his solos with storms of notes, building to multiple climaxes with power and authority. If you've ever wondered what all the fuss about John Coltrane or jazz in general is about, this set offers ample evidence.

The informative, well annotated booklet notes that Prestige Records owner Bob Weinstock prodded his musicians to record just one take of each tune, both to save money and to promote spontaneity in the playing. This practice produced recording dates that captured the freshness and free-wheeling excitement of unrehearsed jam sessions. Coltrane is heard in a variety of settings, from a basic sax/bass/drums trio to quintet and sextet lineups with additional horns. Albums like Soultrane, Lush Life and Traneing In were the result, and sidemen included a very young Freddie Hubbard (his second time in a studio), Donald Byrd, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb.

Originally published in Port Folio Weekly, 11/21/06
copyright © 2006 Jim Newsom/Port Folio Weekly. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
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Younger fans may think John Coltrane can't possibly have recorded everything on this six-box Prestige collection in only a year and a half--the first session being in May 1957, the last in December 1958. These days, even the most prolific artists are lucky if they get to record once a year. But these chronologically ordered standards and bop-school exercises, a good chunk of which was released years after the fact, flowed at a time when albums were only beginning to become artful Albums and spending time in the studio was how artists developed. Recorded during the same period as Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: Live at Carnegie Hall, one of a pair of 2005 discoveries that repolished Coltrane's legend, the music has its inconsistencies and misfires. In the company of such players as pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, trumpeters Wilbur Harden and Freddie Hubbard and drummer Arthur Taylor, Coltrane was still working out his own sound on tenor saxophone--the revolutionary chord progressions of "Giant Steps" and incantatory preachings of "A Love Supreme" were still to come. But even the subpar performances are lifted by his remarkable streams of invention, sustained urgency and surpassing blend of power and beauty. The settings are mostly straight-ahead quartets and quintets, but there are also memorable trio performances such as "Trane's Slo Blues" and an invigorating sextet with baritone saxophonist Sahib Shihab. Marking what would have been Coltrane's 80th birthday, Fearless Leader is the first of three planned box sets to document his Prestige recordings, on which he also was featured as a sideman and all-star group stalwart. For those who care, the packaging and liner coverage is subpar. --Lloyd Sachs

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