Soultrane (gravado apenas três dias depois de Milestones com Miles Davis) demonstra bem o seu estilo 'sheets of sound', um termo usado originalmente pelo crítico Ira Gitler nas notas deste album. Inclui uma versão longa da balada 'I Want To Talk About You' de Billy Eckstine que Coltrane visitará várias vezes ao longo da carreira, nomeadamente no album Live at Birdland.

• Edição Limitada
• Analogue Productions Prestige Mono Series
• Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Masterizado por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Mono Analógicas Originais
• Acetatos preparados para prensagem por Gary Salstrom
• Prensagem na Quality Record Pressings (QRP USA)
• Capa Deluxe "tip-on" com acabamento de alto brilho

This album continued the reinforcement of Coltrane’s importance as a stylist. As in Coltrane and John Coltrane and the Red Garland Trio, his first two albums as a leader for Prestige, the material in Soultrane is away from the ordinary. The Garland–Paul Chambers–Arthur Taylor rhythm section is a perfect accompanying unit for Trane who, by this time, was acknowledged to be — along with Sonny Rollins — one of the two most influential tenor saxophonists in jazz.

Soultrane opens with an exploration at length of "Good Bait," a Tadd Dameron-Count Basie collaboration, first recorded by Dizzy Gillespie in the 1940s. The way Coltrane plays the turns in the melody gives it a slight minuet flavor, complimented by solos by Garland and Chambers in the same, solid groove. "I Want To Talk About You" is a ballad written and originally recorded by Billy Eckstine in the mid-1940s. It’s entirely new to jazz interpretation.

Side Two opens with a Joe Stein-Leo Robin tune, "You Say You Care," never heard before this in a jazz context. Trane makes the most of chord changes in a swinging, medium-up setting. "Theme For Ernie" is a smoldering ballad dedicated by Philadelphian Freddie Lacey to Ernie Henry, the ex-Gillespie alto saxophonist who died suddenly in December 1957. Red begins the final track "Russian Lullaby" with an out-of-tempo introduction before Coltrane comes ripping in. Taking this and Coltrane’s prior interpretation of "Soft Lights And Sweet Music," it seems as though the boys like to play their Irving Berlin at high velocity.

Músicos:

John Coltrane, sax tenor
Art Taylor, bateria
Red Garland, piano
Paul Chambers, contrabaixo

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A:
1. Good Bait
2. I Want To Talk About You

Lado B:
1. You Say You Care
2. Theme For Ernie
3. Russian Lullaby

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