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Studio album by John Coltrane
Released January 1958[1]
Recorded September 15, 1957
Studio Van Gelder (Hackensack, New Jersey)
Genre Hard bop
Length 42:05
Label Blue Note
Producer Alfred Lion
John Coltrane chronology
Coltrane
(1957) Blue Train
(1958) John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio
(1958)

Blue Train is a studio album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was released in January 1958 through Blue Note Records,[1] and is Coltrane`s only session as leader for the label.[8] The recording was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder and took place at his studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on September 15, 1957.

Coltrane wrote four of the record`s five tracks. His playing exhibits early elements of the signature style for which he later became known. The album attained a gold sales certification from the Recording Industry Association of America in 2001.

Background
The album was recorded in the midst of Coltrane`s residency at the Five Spot as a member of the Thelonious Monk quartet. The personnel includes Coltrane`s Miles Davis bandmates Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums), both of whom had worked before with pianist Kenny Drew. Both trumpeter Lee Morgan and trombonist Curtis Fuller were up-and-coming jazz musicians. Unlike Coltrane`s previous label, Blue Note paid the musicians to rehearse the music before the recording session.[9]

Composition
Four of the five compositions were written by Coltrane, the exception being the standard `I`m Old Fashioned`. Though at this point his compositions used conventional diatonic harmonies, they were set in unconventional ways.[10] The title track is a bluesy piece with a quasi-minor (E♭7#9) theme. `Locomotion` is also a blues riff tune, in forty-four-bar form.[11] There is a harmonic relationship between Coltrane`s `Lazy Bird` and the Tadd Dameron composition `Lady Bird`.[12]

Style
Coltrane`s playing exhibits the move toward what would become his signature style. His solos are more harmonic or `vertical` and lines arpeggiated. His timing was often apart from or over the beat, rather than playing on or behind it.[9] During a 1960 interview, Coltrane described Blue Train as his favorite album of his own up to that point.[13]

John Coltrane`s next major album, Giant Steps, broke new melodic and harmonic ground in jazz, whereas Blue Train adheres to the hard bop style of the era.[14][15]

While on Joe Vella`s podcast `Traneumentary`, Michael Cuscuna, the reissue producer at Blue Note, commented:

We’re listening to Blue Train, which to me is one of the most beautiful pieces on one of the most beautiful records that Coltrane recorded in the fifties. It’s his first real mature statement and he wrote all but one of the tunes on this album which was very rare in the fifties and each one is a gem, particularly the title tune Blue Train. And while it’s kind of easy to play the blues, this has a suspended and haunting kind of quality to it.[16]
Personnel
Musicians
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan – trumpet
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Kenny Drew – piano
Paul Chambers – double bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums
Technical personnel
Alfred Lion – producer
Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer, mastering
Reid Miles – design
Francis Wolff – photography
Robert Levin – liner notes