Bahia (album)

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Bahia
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Studio album by
John Coltrane
ReleasedMay 1965 [1]
RecordedJuly 11, 1958 (#3-4)
December 26, 1958 (#1-2, 5)
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ
Genre Jazz, hard bop
Length36:27
Label Prestige
PRLP 7353
Producer Bob Weinstock
John Coltrane chronology
A Love Supreme
(1965)		Bahia
(1965)		 The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
(1965)

Bahia is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1965 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7353. It was recorded at two sessions at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1958. [2] Prestige drew on a stockpile of Coltrane material for several years after his contract had ended without the saxophonist's input. [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

In a review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn called the album "a steady, often very good hard-blowing and blues date." [4]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "Harden's warm, unemphatic trumpet-playing is perfectly appropriate to the setting, and it rarely attempts anything that will scare the horses." [5]

A reviewer for the Record Mirror commented: "Talk of Coltrane being 'anti-jazz' must be dispelled by this little lot." [6]

Tremr's Charlie Wooley described Bahia as "an enjoyable listen," and stated that it "proves that Coltrane manages to be thoroughly entertaining, even at some of his weakest, most traditional moments. It reminds listeners once again that he excels at tackling a huge variety of styles." [3]

Track listing

  1. "Bahia" (Ary Barroso) – 6:17
  2. "Goldsboro Express" (Coltrane) – 4:45
  3. "My Ideal" (Richard Whiting and Newell Chase (m) - Leo Robin (w)) – 7:35
  4. "I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All" (Ray Henderson (m) - Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown (w)) – 7:02
  5. "Something I Dreamed Last Night" (Sammy Fain (m) - Jack Yellen and Herb Magidson (w)) – 10:48

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Billboard May 29, 1965
  2. ↑ "John Coltrane - Bahia". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Wooley, Charlie (September 20, 2016). "Music Review - John Coltrane: Bahia (1965)". Tremr. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Bahia at AllMusic
  5. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 285. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. 1 2 Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (19 February 1966). "John Coltrane: Bahia" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 258. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  7. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  46. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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