Soultrane

Soultrane
Studio album by John Coltrane
Released	Mid October 1958[1]
Recorded	February 7, 1958
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:56
Label	Prestige
Producer	Bob Weinstock
John Coltrane chronology
John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio (1958) Soultrane (1958) Giant Steps (1960)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

Soultrane is the fourth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7142. It was recorded at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, three days after a Columbia Records session for Miles Davis and the Milestones album.

Content

The album is a showcase for Coltrane's late-1950s "sheets of sound" style, the term itself coined by critic Ira Gitler in the album's liner notes. Also featured is a long reading of Billy Eckstine's ballad standard "I Want to Talk About You", which Coltrane would revisit often during his career, most notably on the album Live at Birdland. Among the other tracks are popular theme "Good Bait" by Tadd Dameron, and Fred Lacey's elegiac "Theme for Ernie". "You Say You Care" is from the Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

The album closes with a brief, frenetic version of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby". Producer Bob Weinstock relates Coltrane's humorous interpretation:

We were doing a session and we were hung for a tune and I said, "Trane, why don't you think up some old standard?" He said, "OK I got it.["]...and they played "Russian Lullaby" at a real fast tempo. At the end I asked, "Trane, what was the name of that tune?" And he said, "Rushin' Lullaby." I cracked up.^[5]

Soultrane takes its title from a song on a 1956 album by Tadd Dameron featuring Coltrane, Mating Call. "Soultrane" does not appear on this Soultrane, and none of the five tunes on Soultrane are originals by Coltrane. The song "Theme for Ernie" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2005 film Hollywoodland.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Good Bait"	Tadd Dameron	12:08
2.	"I Want to Talk About You"	Billy Eckstine	10:53

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You Say You Care"	Leo Robin, Jule Styne	6:16
2.	"Theme for Ernie"	Fred Lacey	4:57
3.	"Russian Lullaby"	Irving Berlin	5:33

Personnel

• John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
• Red Garland - piano
• Paul Chambers - bass
• Art Taylor - drums
• Rudy Van Gelder - engineering, remastering
• Shigeo Miyamoto - Engineering, mastering
• Alan Yoshida, Steve Hoffman - mastering
• Del Costello, Bob Weinstock - production
• Kazue Sugimoto - supervision
• Akira Taguchi - supervision

References

1. Billboard Oct 27, 1958
2. Soultrane at AllMusic
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 48. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
5. Lewis Porter. John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. ISBN 0-472-10161-7, p. 253