![]() ![]() BLUE TRAIN – From Blue Train (1958) – Surprisingly, Coltrane made just the one recording for Blue Note records. Moves on to something like a train crash. MY FAVOURITE THINGS – From The Olatanji Concert: The Last Live Recordings (1967) – This is an unusual selection, but the last extant live recording of My Favourite Things – made just months before the saxophonist's death – demonstrates quite how deep into abstraction he had passed. The regretted exclusions were so numerous we don't even bother listing the runners-up. More controversially, we've excluded recordings such as the excellent rediscovered Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. So, you won't see anything from Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. To make the task a little easier, we have stuck to recordings that list Coltrane as leader. One could comfortably list 50 essential tracks by Coltrane, but we have only so much time on this earth. In the intervening decades, the saxophonist's reputation has suffered not the tiniest decline. John Coltrane died 50 years ago this week. ![]()
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