JOHN COLTRANE 'Plays The Blues' LP

350269   8436563185489   20th Century Masterworks

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THE COMPLETE LP + 2 BONUS TRACKS - 180g COLORED BLUE VINYL - LIMITED EDITION. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton.

In 1960, and after recording the music to be issued on The Avant Garde(with Don Cherry), and the all-time classic My Favorite Things, Coltrane embarked on the making of Coltrane Plays the Blues, a thematic LP consisting of six tunes based on the blues.

'Blues for Bechet', one of the two tracks on which Coltrane plays soprano sax, is an obvious dedication to the man who brought the instrument to jazz, the great Sidney Bechet. Pianist McCoy Tyner sits out on 'Blues to Bechet' and 'Blues to You', reducing the quartet to a trio on these two tracks.