John Coltrane regressa às suas raízes utilizado o Blues para explorar as fronteiras do Jazz! Com McCoy Tyner, Steve Davis e Elvin Jones, gravado em 1960 durante as sessões de My Favorite Things, Coltrane Plays The Blues apresenta 'Blues To Bechet', 'Blues To Elvin', 'Blues To You' e outros três temas, com masterização impecável de Bernie Grundman a partir das fitas Master Analógicas Originais.

• Edição Limitada (2500 unidades)
• Edição Numerada
• LP Duplo a 45rpm
• Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Prensagem na Gotta Groove USA
• Masterizado por Bernie Grundman
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais
• Capa Gatefold Laminada Deluxe

Recorded on October 24, 1960 in NYC, Coltrane Plays The Blues is perhaps a misleading title for this album as John Coltrane is not so much playing the blues as bringing the feeling of blues into the idiom of jazz. This memorable release, featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums and Steve Davis on bass, hails from Coltrane's first period as leader of his own quartet, and finds the music legend playing then highly unusual soprano saxophone on two numbers - "Blues To Bechet," a pianoless tribute to the great Sydney Bechet, and "Mr. Syms," where Tyner is given the opportunity to really show his stuff, which he does so masterfully.

"Coltrane's sessions for Atlantic in late October 1960 were prolific, yielding the material for My Favorite Things, Coltrane Plays the Blues, and Coltrane's Sound. My Favorite Things was destined to be the most remembered and influential of these, and while Coltrane Plays the Blues is not as renowned or daring in material, it is still a powerful session. As for the phrase "plays the blues" in the title, that's not an indicator that the tunes are conventional blues (they aren't). It's more indicative of a bluesy sensibility, whether he is playing muscular saxophone or, on "Blues to Bechet" and "Mr. Syms," the more unusual sounding (at the time) soprano sax. Elvin Jones, who hadn't been in Coltrane's band long, really busts out on the quicker numbers, such as "Blues to You" and "Mr. Day." - Richie Unterberger, All Music

"The Coltrane Quartet, three-fourths complete at the time of this recording, had begun its historic rise and had also turned the corner in Coltrane's music, transitioning from the expressive verticality of Giant Steps to the more elongated, long-limbed lyricism that would define his role in the avant-garde. It can come as no surprise that to do so, he engaged the material he'd known longest and best - the blues." - Neil Tesser

Músicos:

John Coltrane, soprano & tenor sax
McCoy Tyner, piano
Steve Davis, baixo
Elvin Jones, bateria

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
1. Blues To Elvin

Lado B
1. Blues To Bechet
2. Blues To You

Lado C
1. Mr. Day

Lado D
1. Mr. Syms
2. Mr. Knight

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