JOHN COLTRANE Side Steps (Deluxe Edition 2009
out-of-print 5-CD set highlighting 43 legendary Prestige
Recordings featuring John Coltrane as a sideman to a host of
jazz luminaries including Gene Ammons, Tadd Dameron, Red
Garland, and Sonny Rollins. He joins Donald Byrd and Hank
Mobley on Elmo Hope's On It and Avalon (1956); accompanies
Tadd Dameron on Mating Call and Super Jet (1956); matches
saxes with Sonny Rollins on Tenor Madness (1956); plays with
Mal Waldron on Potpourri and One by One (1957); again joins
Donald Byrd on Red Garland's Undecided and Solitude (1957);
joins Ray Draper on Two Sons (1957); plays on the Gene
Ammons versions of The Real McCoy and It Might As Well Be
Spring (1958), and more! Housed inside a deluxe fold-out
hardbook pack including a 72-page book with rare photos,
discography and sessionography, insightful essays, and
interview transcript with Prestige founder Bob Weinstock.
Fully reproduced original album cover artwork and notes.
Hype sticker & factory sealed. Recommended).
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John Coltrane Side Steps - 5-CD Set Deluxe Edition - Sealed US CD Album Box Set
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The artistic prowess of saxophonist John Coltrane was so expansive and influential – even in his own short lifetime, let alone in the decades since his death – that it’s difficult to quantify or differentiate his significance as a leader, a collaborator, a sideman or any other role in the jazz idiom. What’s certain, though, is that some of his most pivotal session work took place on the Prestige label in the 1950s.
Over the past three years, Prestige Records has released boxed sets of Coltrane’s numerous sessions from the mid- to late ’50s, each spotlighting a specific dimension of his tenure with the label. Fearless Leader – released in September 2006, in celebration of Coltrane’s 80th birthday – showcases his recordings as a bandleader. Interplay, released in September 2007, contains Coltrane’s early collaborative recordings with a variety of stellar musicians from the same era.
Side Steps is the third and final set in this series. The 5-CD set captures Coltrane in a supporting role, as a sideman to leaders like Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron and others. The collection of 43 tracks represents the entirety of Coltrane’s session work as a Prestige sideman, from mid-1956 to early 1958, with the exception of his work with Miles Davis (which is featured in The Miles Davis Quintet: Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions, released in 2006).
"It is easy to measure Coltrane’s musical growth through his recordings with Miles, and as a leader, while at Prestige," says jazz historian Ashley Kahn in his extensive liner notes for the Side Steps collection. "But it is especially revealing to gauge his progress through impromptu studio sessions with a wider variety of musicians and music. They tested his increasing abilities, and allowed him to apply the techniques and confidence gained from Miles’s tight-lipped tutelage (and his later apprenticeship with Thelonious Monk). They also introduced his name to an expanding community of fans and fellow musicians, and permitted him entry into the rank and file of jazz players, many of whom were destined to become leaders and help shape the future of the music."
In short, Prestige was the place where Coltrane cut his teeth, according to Nick Phillips, co-producer of the boxed set. "This is where he was really gaining his experience," says Phillips, who is Vice President of Jazz and Catalog A&R for Concord Music Group, Prestige’s parent company. "You can hear him developing his individual voice in these recordings, already sounding like no one else but John Coltrane, yet not having fully developed into the John Coltrane who would become one of the most important and influential artists in the history of jazz."
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Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
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| Year of Release: |
2009 |
| Artist: |
John Coltrane (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Side Steps (click here for more of the same title) |
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| Format: |
CD Album Box Set |
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| Record Label: |
Prestige Records |
| Catalogue No: |
PRS-31345 |
| Country of Origin: |
USA
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
Unconfirmed
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JCODXSI808063 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
888072313453 |
| Genres: |
Jazz, Progressive
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| Related Artists: |
Alice Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Flying Lotus, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Wilbur Harden |
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John Coltrane |
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Tadd Dameron on Mating Call and Super Jet (1956); matches
saxes with Sonny Rollins on Tenor Madness (1956); plays with
Mal Waldron on Potpourri and One by One (1957); again joins
Donald Byrd on Red Garland's Undecided and Solitude (1957);
joins Ray Draper on Two Sons (1957); plays on the Gene
Ammons versions of The Real McCoy and It Might As Well Be
Spring (1958), and more! Housed inside a deluxe fold-out
hardbook pack including a 72-page book with rare photos,
discography and sessionography, insightful essays, and
interview transcript with Prestige founder Bob Weinstock.
Fully reproduced original album cover artwork and notes.
Hype sticker & factory sealed. Recommended) ){kind=spacer}
