John Coltrane's Blue Train is up there with Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue in being an essential jazz album every music lover should have. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on September 15th 1957, it was Coltrane's only album for Blue Note Records as a leader - he was still under contract to Prestige at the time.
After playing with Miles Davis, and still part of Thelonious Monk's Quartet playing at the Five Spot club, Coltrane was partnered by the cream of East Coast musicians for the Blue Note date, and the triple horn combination with Lee Morgan's trumpet and Curtis Fuller's trombone gave the album a big band feel at times - Blue Note's Alfred Lion paying (unusually) for rehearsal time to get everything perfect. Coltrane had played alongside Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones as part of Miles Davis' group, and both these had worked with pianist Kenny Drew.
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