Standard Coltrane

Standard Coltrane
Studio album by John Coltrane
Released	October 2, 1962 (1962-10-02) [1]
Recorded	July 11, 1958
Studio	Van Gelder (Hackensack)
Genre	Jazz (hard bop)
Length	34:46
Label	Prestige PRLP 7243
Producer	Bob Weinstock
John Coltrane chronology
Coltrane (1962) Standard Coltrane (1962) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1963)

Standard Coltrane is an album by the jazz musician and composer John Coltrane. It was released in October 1962 by Prestige Records. It was recorded at a single recording session at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1958. This album was rereleased in 1970 as The Master (PR 7825) with that version rereleased on CD to include the other four tunes recorded at the same 11 July session. Those other tunes had previously been released on two other albums assembled from unissued recordings ( Stardust and Bahia ). ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
DownBeat	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]
AllMusic	[4]

In a review for AllMusic, Steve Leggett stated that the album is "more historical than vital or transitional, although it's pleasant enough." ^[4]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz called the album "a low-intensity operation with the emphasis on ballads," and commented: "Harden's warm, unemphatic trumpet-playing is perfectly appropriate to the setting, and it rarely attempts anything that will scare the horses. He and the leader seem to have worked out the approach only rather notionally, and each of their improvisations has an informal, loose-limbed quality that is attractive but hardly dynamic." ^[3]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Don't Take Your Love From Me" (Henry Nemo) – 9:17
2. "I'll Get By" (Fred Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 8:12

Side two

1. "Spring Is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:55
2. "Invitation" (Bronislau Kaper, Paul Francis Webster) – 10:22

Personnel

• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• Wilbur Harden – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Red Garland – piano
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums

References

1. DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 532-534. ISBN   9780415634632 . Retrieved 2 January 2020.
2. DownBeat March 14, 1963 vol. 30, No.7
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 285. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Leggett, Steve. "John Coltrane: Standard Coltrane". AllMusic. Retrieved January 27, 2022.