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| ARTIST: | John Coltrane Quartet |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Grp Records |
| FEATURES: | Original recording remastered |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Say It (Over And Over Again), You Don't Know What Love Is, Too Young To Go Steady, All Or Nothing At All, I Wish I Knew, What's New, It's Easy To Remember (But So Hard To Forget), Nancy (With The Laughing Face) |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 011105015622 |
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Customer Reviews of Ballads
One of the Greatest Albums of All Times This is a classic example of how versatile the 'Trane could be! This album is filled with heart and soul. Actually in Jazz circles this is a break through album since it contained nothing but ballads. Nonetheless, Coltrane proved to his critics and fans that he is nothing but the best at what he does. However, this album also contains some excellent talent on the piano (McCoy Tyner), who struts his stuff in many parts of the songs and the drums (Elvin Jones) as well. This album is soothing, relaxing, heartfelt, and romantic with a touch of edge where it is needed. If you are new to the Jazz scene or a huge fan of Jazz music then you should not be without this album. This is essential Coltrane.
If you planning to by ONE jazzBALLAD album...
... get THIS one (4 and a half star). Sure, you find better smooth blues and ballads here and there in other of Coltranes albums ("Crecsent", "Coltrane live at Birdland", "Giant Steps", Impressions, "The John Coltrane Quartet Plays", "Blue Train" etc) but to have one album containing nothing else than jazzballads, this is one of the best ever made and if you want one... why dont get it from one of the best saxplayers? I did not give it 5 stars only because Coltrane could do better smooth blues ballads by himself (on records mentioned above) and on this disc he use others writers standards instead of doing it all by himself.
Anyway... this one is overlooked by SOME professional jazzrewievers as "commercial", simple -comparing to his later freejazz/avant garde works and admired by the sort of rewievers who likes traditional smooth jazzballads. For me, a good record is a good record if you have an open mind whatsoever style is used by such a great saxplayer as Coltrane was.
A question to all Coltrane and music fans in general... could ANYTHING by Coltrane really be commercial playing his heart and intellect, body and soul out? A real beuty is this "Ballads" album and this one is for EVERYONE... from so called "real jazz avant garde aficionados" to "the ordinary man in the street" -IF you like good music. Bandmembers he had on his Impulse period was fantastic, all of them. McCoy Tyners pianowork is something really special here and the other players work on this album is not so bad either...
For you people familiar with "A Love Supreme", "Meditations, "Kulu se Mama", "Expressions", "Stellar Regions" etc. and like them (I love them)... this one "Ballads" could be a good compliment to your collection IF you have an open mind... :-) (*this was a good punch I think* :-) (you shuold know what I mean :-). Of course this is totally different.
My personal favourite on this "Ballads" album is "All or Nothing At All" but everything on it is beutiful. Maybe "All or Nothing..." stand out a bit more.
By the way... if you like it a bit "rougher", some more bluesstyle than just plain ballads and not so avantgarde as Coltranes later work and still looking for some "in between" go for "Crescent" instead, but I recommend you get "Crescent" AND this one "Ballads" beacause you get Coltranes smoother spectra in two full records in this more relaxing style.
What a heck, get ALL Impulse records made with Trane so you find out about Coltranes fantastic registers by youselves. All from sophisticated jazzballads to bop, moody blues, spiritual, hard bop, post bop, avant garde styles. He was not "only" a musician he was an multicultural artist showing the way to what mankind and life is all about beacause he opens your mind and heart in all his records by doing so himself.
This "Ballads" album is a perfect record for a newcomber to Coltranes music but not only to newcombers. It should suite ALL people who really like good music. This one is also a perfect record to listen to after a busy week even if (to citate Captain Beefheart): "Your ears stand up when you hear that sound".
A different side of Coltrane
John Coltrane demonstrates another side of his musical range on this beautiful album of ballads. Coltrane's playing is soulful, sweet and filled with emotion. Mccoy Tyner is equally devastating on piano on just about every cut included here. Coltrane's talent and musical imagination is unquestionably on display here in a cd that is highly accessable in comparison to some of his more challenging work. The man was a giant and this CD belongs on the shelf of every jazz lover.