John_Coltrane-Fearless_Leader-6CD-2006-MTD

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2006-10-18

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John Coltrane - Fearless Leader

ARTIST.....: John Coltrane
TITLE......: Fearless Leader
LABEL......: Concord Music Group Inc
URL........: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7264397&BAB=Z

RIP DATE...: Oct-16-2006
STORE DATE.: Sep-26-2006
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR  /  44.1Hz  /  Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 507,0 MB


Track Listing:

     cd1

01 - Straight Street                            06:19
02 - While My Lady Sleeps                       04:44
03 - Chronic Blues                              08:14
04 - Bakai                                      08:42
05 - Violets For Your Furs                      06:18
06 - Time Was                                   07:29
07 - I Hear A Rhapsody                          06:03
08 - Trane's Slo Blues                          06:06
09 - Slowtrane                                  07:20
10 - Like Someone In Love                       05:01
11 - I Love You                                 05:31

     cd2

01 - You Leave Me Breathless                    07:25
02 - Bass Blues                                 07:49
03 - Soft Lights And Sweet Music                04:45
04 - Traneing In                                12:37
05 - Slow Dance                                 05:30
06 - Lush Life                                  14:03
07 - The Believer                               13:50
08 - Nakatini Serenade                          11:02

     cd3

01 - Come Rain Or Come Shine                    08:48
02 - Lover                                      07:59
03 - Russian Lullaby                            05:36
04 - Theme For Ernie                            04:59
05 - You Say You Care                           06:17
06 - Good Bait                                  12:11
07 - I Want To Talk About You                   10:57
08 - Rise 'N' Shine                             07:17
09 - I See Your Face Before Me                  09:56

     cd4

01 - If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You      09:23
02 - Little Melonae                             14:07
03 - By The Numbers                             12:03
04 - Black Pearls                               13:14
05 - Lover Come Back To Me                      07:29
06 - Sweet Sapphire Blues                       18:14

     cd5

01 - Spring Is Here                             06:57
02 - Invitation                                 10:23
03 - I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?              07:04
04 - Love Thy Neighbor                          09:25
05 - Don't Take Your Love From Me               09:17
06 - Stardust                                   10:44
07 - My Ideal                                   07:36
08 - I'll Get By                                08:09

     cd6

01 - Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?    05:15
02 - Then I'll Be Tired Of You                  09:31
03 - Something I Dreamed Last Night             10:52
04 - Bahia                                      06:18
05 - Goldsboro Express                          04:46
06 - Time After Time                            07:44

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                                                cd1: 71:47 cd2: 77:01 cd3: 74:00 cd4: 74:30 cd5: 69:35 cd6: 44:26
Release Notes:

In the spring of 1957, when he signed with Bob Weinstock's
Prestige Records, John Coltrane was still a relative newcomer to
the national jazz scene. He wasn't, at age 30, a youngster by any
means, and he had already been playing professionally for more
than a dozen years, but most of that had been as a sideman and he
was known primarily to insiders. Most recently, since 1955, he'd
worked for Miles Davis, who had first recognized Coltrane's
potential in the late '40s. Coltrane's blowing with Davis' quintet
was often brilliant, sometimes spotty, promising overall, but the
saxophonist's heroin habit was getting the better of him and Davis
cut him loose a number of times before finally disbanding the
group in 1957. Weinstock was well familiar with Coltrane's growing
reputation and had used him as a sideman at the label. When he
gave him a contract as a leader, he could not have known, of
course, that he was setting off one of the most monumentally
influential careers jazz would ever know. At Prestige, Coltrane,
now cleaned up from drugs, was ridiculously prolific, taking part
in some 27 sessions in all during 1957 and 1958, the entirety of
which, 125 tracks, can be heard on the 16-disc box set The
Prestige Recordings. This six-disc set seems almost minimal in
comparison, eschewing Coltrane's sideman work at Prestige to
concentrate on his role as frontman. But by focusing on Coltrane
as an increasingly creative, at times explosive, groundbreaking
force, this "compact" set is, in its own way, the more potent of
the two. And Fearless Leader is an appropriate title: Coltrane was
by nature unafraid to take chances, eager to dare himself and his
musicians to go places jazz had yet to travel. He wasn't quite up
to running speed yet at Prestige, but he was well on his way to
figuring out that the possibilities were boundless.

While some of the Prestige recordings might seem almost tame and
mainstream in comparison to the music Coltrane would later cut for
Atlantic and Impulse!, that's really only in retrospect: seen in
the context of its time, the sessions that Coltrane cut at
Prestige -- released originally on such albums as Coltrane,
Traneing In, The Believer, Soultrane, and the stunning
ballads/standards set Lush Life, on which Coltrane plays it
relatively straight, displaying a debt to Charlie Parker that
would dissipate as he proceeded to probe worlds Bird never dreamed
of -- raised the bar higher than it had ever been at the time. As
Fearless Leader is arranged by session and does not attempt to
replicate the original albums' running orders, however, those
earlier contexts cease to exist and listeners are left to
experience the music as Coltrane -- working at Prestige mainly
with such peers as pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers,
drummers Art Taylor and Louis Hayes, and trumpeters Donald Byrd
and Freddie Hubbard -- cut it, chronologically. Whatever
tentativeness he was still feeling early in the relationship
slowly gives way, and by the end of Coltrane's tenure at the
label, his signature aggressive probing is in full swing, notably
on tracks such as "Bahia" and "Goldsboro Express," from his
December 1958 session, and a breakneck "Lover Come Back to Me"
from earlier that year. Although he was still capable of playing
it straight and unadorned -- his blues and romantic ballads are
uniformly moving and elegantly laid out -- and Coltrane's Prestige
era was a transitional one to be sure, Fearless Leader makes clear
that the roots of his genius were already firmly planted.

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