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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | June 22nd 20 |
A very sweet opus, perhaps not ever truly marking, but also practically faultless. Soultrane alternates high energy and moodier, softer tracks with clock-like precision, starting on the perhaps slighly overlong but nicely swingy Good Bait, and ending on a track that is the only curve ball here, starting with exquisite, delicate piano, with then an abrupt transition into one of the fastest paced sections on the whole record. Honestly? It works, and the album makes it to 4.0 tier because there isn't a single unpleasant moment in it really. 3.8
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| 3.5 great | GamamJ | November 2nd 20 |
Goddamn this went hard. Among the best oof Trane's early albums, he finds consistency, and the last track just rushes by out of nowhere.
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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | March 7th 17 |
In the liner notes for Soultrane, Ira Gitler coins the term "sheets of sound" to describe John Coltrane's playing here. While it was not the first instance he'd used that style, Soultrane is a fantastic record for hearing this style very clearly and without interruption. Trane is absolutely blazing on this record, taking five pieces not of his own hand and taking them to new heights with his breathtaking performance. The Red Garland Trio backs him up, with Garland laying down a few great solos and Paul Chambers and Art Taylor providing a solid, malleable backbone. It really shows how comfortable Coltrane had become as a leader, really taking all of these compositions by the neck and never letting go save for isolated moments here and there. The rendition of Tadd Dameron's "Good Bait" is quite amazing, and hearing it, it becomes apparent just how phenomenal John was at the hard bop style, seemingly doing this stuff in his sleep. That he'd go on to make another classic within it after Blue Train is incredible, but make no mistake, Soultrane is one hell of a warm-up.
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| 4.0 excellent | KyussApollo | August 21st 10 |
Excellent hard-bop outing by Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio backing him up on this one. Russian Lullaby is a great early example John Coltrane's "sheets of sound"style that he was just beginning to explore at this time -- Coltrane actually thought the name of the song was "Rushin' Lullaby." All the '57-'58 stuff Coltrane did with pianist Red Garland &c is good, and unfortunately often overlooked in the glare of his blistering later work.
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| 3.5 great | Timmy | January 12th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | mrfixit | March 9th 22 |
| 3.5 great | remi | May 31st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Onater | April 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | March 31st 17 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | November 29th 16 |
| 3.5 great | loulou | March 11th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | scheim | June 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodrigo | October 23rd 14 |
| 3.0 good | ariich | October 4th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | CWBrown | June 20th 14 |
| 3.0 good | rjk | June 17th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | sncold | June 7th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | WJM73 | April 29th 12 |
| 3.0 good | cuki92 | April 27th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Spon426 | February 21st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | mcglat | September 14th 11 |
| 3.0 good | iemona | November 7th 10 |
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