JOHN COLTRANE — The Stardust Session (review)

JOHN COLTRANE — The Stardust Session album cover Boxset / Compilation · 1975 · Hard Bop Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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Formally a compilation this album in fact contains one full Coltrane's session (one of the latest for Prestige),recorded at 11 July,1958.Formerly the best four compositions,recorded during this session,were released as full album ("Standards", 1958).Four others songs were used some years later by Prestige releasing albums of archive recordings "Stardust" and "Bahia". On "Stardust Sessions" all one-day session recordings are presented in one place for a first time.

Musically this album represents Coltrane late 50s hard bop period (right before he moved to more adventurous travel on Atlantic label experimenting with modal jazz).Compositions are all standards/ballads, well played and quite unusually for Coltrane with big dose of sentimentality. This album has nothing on it of Coltrane's music which will revolutionize the jazz world few years later. But the material here is really inspired and I'm sure will touch heart of listeners who were not much happy with his later "too twisted" music.
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