Lush Life [Bonus Tracks]

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Editor's info:
The complete classic album Lush Life (Prestige 7188).
Featuring Coltrane in two contexts: as the only horn in a pianoless trio, and sharing the frontline with Donald Byrd in a quintet setting. As a bonus, the alternate blues that completes the trio session and three extended performances from the session that produced "Lush Life".

Includes 8-page booklet

The seminal recordings that make up this album were taped during a transitional period in John Coltrane's musical career. He joined the Miles Davis Quintet in 1955 and would form his own celebrated quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones in 1960. In the intervening years, he overcame his narcotics addiction and began to expand on his own musical ideas while experimenting with both the Thelonious Monk Quartet and the Miles Davis Sextet (featuring Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley). With the latter group, he would record the famous Kind of Blue, one of the most fascinating jazz albums of all time. Although Trane belonged to both the Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk groups, he also recorded studio sessions with other musicians and presented his own albums during this period. Lush Life was constructed with material from three different sessions, all of which produced additional material issued on other albums. While Side A was recorded in a trio format with no piano (something unusual for Coltrane, in fact it was originally planned as a quartet session, but the pianist simply didn't show up), Side B features a quintet showcasing Donald Byrd and Red Garland (although the two tunes were recorded at different sessions).

***** Down Beat
original review:
LUSH LIFE
"All aspects of Coltrane's conception during this period are well-illustrated on the album: the classic simplicity and haunting loveliness of the Coltrane ballad technique is here further exemplified by "Someone in Love", "Trane's Slow Blues" is another superlative effort in the blues genre. For sheer beauty of approach and execution, Coltrane's work has rarely been equaled." (Frank Kofsky)