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In just over a decade, John Coltrane passed through three (some would say four) distinct artistic phases, basically separated by which label he was signed to at the time. In only two years on Atlantic, he catapulted hard bop forward, imported influences from Indian and North African music, and worked with Ornette Coleman's backing band. Upon signing to Impulse! in 1961, he began a six-year stretch of relentlessly experimental studio work, with his "classic quartet" and numerous other musicians including Eric Dolphy, Rashied Ali, Pharoah Sanders, and his second wife, Alice. But his early recordings, made for the Prestige label between 1955 and 1957, are both voluminous and revelatory. Side Steps is the third and final box in a series that has separated Coltrane's work for the label into albums on which he was the leader, albums recorded with him as part of a larger group (the "Prestige All-Stars"), and discs on which he was a mere sideman. (The albums he recorded with the Miles Davis Quintet have their own box.) The five discs of Side Steps contain 43 tracks originally released under the leadership of players like Elmo Hope, Tadd Dameron, Mal Waldron, Red Garland, and Gene Ammons, plus "Tenor Madness," the saxophonist's lone in-studio encounter with Sonny Rollins, and all find Coltrane playing his part, never truly dominating proceedings but always stepping up when his moment comes. In the mid-'50s, Coltrane had yet to develop the "sheets of sound" technique of worrying away endlessly at a chord; instead, his solos hold to a bluesy, bop-derived style, with a rich command of the horn's full range, though he tends to keep himself in the lower to middle register. Bob Weinstock, owner of Prestige Records, tended to book "blowing sessions" rather than let artists come up with an album's worth of solid new material that would work as a cohesive artistic statement, and he always attempted to get as much material as possible from a single studio date, so there are a lot of standards on these discs, and relatively few originals (by the leaders or the sidemen). Also, many of the performances are quite lengthy, with ten of them passing the ten-minute mark and "All Mornin' Long," on which Coltrane and Donald Byrd augment Red Garland's trio, coming in at a staggering (for 1957) 20:17. But everything here is worth hearing, and the detailed liner notes -- which include an interview with Weinstock as well as session notes and the usual other stuff -- add value to a terrific box, one that easily stands up alongside its two companions and Rhino/Atlantic's gathering of the Atlantic years, The Heavyweight Champion.
© Phil Freeman /TiVo
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John Coltrane, MainArtist - Not Available, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Fantasy Records
John Coltrane, MainArtist - Not Available, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1989 Fantasy Records
John Coltrane, MainArtist - Not Available, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1989 Fantasy Records
John Coltrane, MainArtist - Not Available, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1989 Fantasy Records
John Coltrane, FeaturedArtist - Tadd Dameron, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1956 Prestige Records, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philly Joe Jones, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tadd Dameron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Simmons, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1992 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, FeaturedArtist - Tadd Dameron, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, FeaturedArtist - Tadd Dameron, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philly Joe Jones, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tadd Dameron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Simmons, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 1957 Prestige Records, Inc.
John Coltrane, FeaturedArtist - Tadd Dameron, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
DISC 2
John Coltrane, Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Philly Joe Jones, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Composer, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins Quartet, MainArtist
℗ 1956 Prestige Records, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hardman, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mal Waldron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jackie McLean, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Julian Euell, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Tarantino, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hardman, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mal Waldron, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jackie McLean, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Julian Euell, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Tarantino, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Prestige Records
Arthur Herzog, Jr., ComposerLyricist - John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hardman, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Billie Holiday, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mal Waldron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jackie McLean, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Julian Euell, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Tarantino, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hardman, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mal Waldron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jackie McLean, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Julian Euell, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hardman, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mal Waldron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jackie McLean, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Julian Euell, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Tarantino, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1965 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mal Waldron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Thigpen, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Idrees Sulieman, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Julian Euell, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sahib Shihab, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mal Waldron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Thigpen, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Idrees Sulieman, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Julian Euell, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sahib Shihab, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Tarantino, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mal Waldron, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ed Thigpen, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Idrees Sulieman, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Julian Euell, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sahib Shihab, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Tarantino, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Prestige Records
DISC 3
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tadd Dameron, Composer - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Original Jazz Classics
John Coltrane, FeaturedArtist - George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Donald Byrd, FeaturedArtist - Arthur Taylor, FeaturedArtist - George Joyner, FeaturedArtist - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dizzy Gillespie, ComposerLyricist - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1990 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Ellington, Composer - Paul Francis Webster, ComposerLyricist - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1990 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Shavers, ComposerLyricist - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Sydney Robin, ComposerLyricist - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Donald Byrd, FeaturedArtist - PAUL MOTIAN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Red Garland, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Scott LaFaro, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Edgar Yipsel Harburg, ComposerLyricist - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Donald Byrd, FeaturedArtist - Dizzy Gillespie, ComposerLyricist - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1998 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Vincent Youmans, Composer - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leo Robin, Author - Clifford Grey, Author - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1990 Fantasy, Inc.
DISC 4
John Coltrane, FeaturedArtist - Donald Byrd, FeaturedArtist - Red Garland, ComposerLyricist - Arthur Taylor, FeaturedArtist - George Joyner, FeaturedArtist - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Parker, Composer - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Red Garland Quintets, MainArtist
℗ 1958 Original Jazz Classics
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Ellington, ComposerLyricist - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Delange, ComposerLyricist - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - John Lewis, ComposerLyricist - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - John Gillespie, ComposerLyricist - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donald Byrd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Fletcher Henderson, ComposerLyricist - ROY ALFRED, ComposerLyricist - Red Garland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - The Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Prestige Records
John Coltrane, MainArtist - Red Garland, ComposerLyricist - Red Garland Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1962 Prestige Records, Inc.
DISC 5
John Coltrane, MainArtist - KIM GANNON, ComposerLyricist - Hubert Giraud, ComposerLyricist - Ray Draper, MainArtist
℗ 1998 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Draper, Tuba, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ray Draper Quintet, MainArtist
℗ 1998 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, MainArtist - Ray Draper, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1960 Prestige Records, Inc.
John Coltrane, MainArtist - Ray Draper, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1960 Prestige Records, Inc.
John Coltrane, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Art Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pepper Adams, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Quinichette, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Richardson, Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Mal Waldron, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Bob Weinstock, Producer - Gene Ammons, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Ammons All-stars, MainArtist - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 1961 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Art Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pepper Adams, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Quinichette, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Richardson, Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Mal Waldron, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Bob Weinstock, Producer - Gene Ammons, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Ammons All-stars, MainArtist - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 1961 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, MainArtist - Mal Waldron, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 Prestige Records, Inc.
John Coltrane, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Rodgers, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Art Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Mal Waldron, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Weinstock, Producer - Gene Ammons, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Ammons All-stars, MainArtist - Arthur Taylor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - George Joyner, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 1961 Fantasy, Inc.
Album review
In just over a decade, John Coltrane passed through three (some would say four) distinct artistic phases, basically separated by which label he was signed to at the time. In only two years on Atlantic, he catapulted hard bop forward, imported influences from Indian and North African music, and worked with Ornette Coleman's backing band. Upon signing to Impulse! in 1961, he began a six-year stretch of relentlessly experimental studio work, with his "classic quartet" and numerous other musicians including Eric Dolphy, Rashied Ali, Pharoah Sanders, and his second wife, Alice. But his early recordings, made for the Prestige label between 1955 and 1957, are both voluminous and revelatory. Side Steps is the third and final box in a series that has separated Coltrane's work for the label into albums on which he was the leader, albums recorded with him as part of a larger group (the "Prestige All-Stars"), and discs on which he was a mere sideman. (The albums he recorded with the Miles Davis Quintet have their own box.) The five discs of Side Steps contain 43 tracks originally released under the leadership of players like Elmo Hope, Tadd Dameron, Mal Waldron, Red Garland, and Gene Ammons, plus "Tenor Madness," the saxophonist's lone in-studio encounter with Sonny Rollins, and all find Coltrane playing his part, never truly dominating proceedings but always stepping up when his moment comes. In the mid-'50s, Coltrane had yet to develop the "sheets of sound" technique of worrying away endlessly at a chord; instead, his solos hold to a bluesy, bop-derived style, with a rich command of the horn's full range, though he tends to keep himself in the lower to middle register. Bob Weinstock, owner of Prestige Records, tended to book "blowing sessions" rather than let artists come up with an album's worth of solid new material that would work as a cohesive artistic statement, and he always attempted to get as much material as possible from a single studio date, so there are a lot of standards on these discs, and relatively few originals (by the leaders or the sidemen). Also, many of the performances are quite lengthy, with ten of them passing the ten-minute mark and "All Mornin' Long," on which Coltrane and Donald Byrd augment Red Garland's trio, coming in at a staggering (for 1957) 20:17. But everything here is worth hearing, and the detailed liner notes -- which include an interview with Weinstock as well as session notes and the usual other stuff -- add value to a terrific box, one that easily stands up alongside its two companions and Rhino/Atlantic's gathering of the Atlantic years, The Heavyweight Champion.
© Phil Freeman /TiVo
About the album
- 5 disc(s) - 43 track(s)
- Total length: 06:22:31
- Main artists: John Coltrane
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Prestige
- Genre: Jazz
© 2009 Concord Music Group Inc. ℗ 2009 Concord Music Group Inc.
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