Soultrane

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.

This article is about the 1958 John Coltrane jazz album. For the 1957 Tadd Dameron jazz tune, see Mating Call.
Not to be confused with Soul Train or Soul train (disambiguation).
Soultrane
Studio album by
John Coltrane
ReleasedMid October 1958[1]
RecordedFebruary 7, 1958
GenreJazz
Length39:56
LabelPrestige
ProducerBob Weinstock
John Coltrane chronology
John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio
(1958)		 Soultrane
(1958)		 Giant Steps
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
Tom HullA–[5]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]

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 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.[7]

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 is an original by Coltrane. The song "Theme for Ernie" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2005 film Hollywoodland.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Good Bait"Tadd Dameron12:08
2."I Want to Talk About You"Billy Eckstine10:53

Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Say You Care"Leo Robin, Jule Styne6:16
2."Theme for Ernie"Fred Lacey4:57
3."Russian Lullaby"Irving Berlin5:33

Personnel

Production personnel

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., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 48. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Essential Jazz Albums of the 1950s". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  6. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  7. Lewis Porter. John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. ISBN 0-472-10161-7, p. 253
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