20th Century Masterworks Coloured Vinyl Series JOHN COLTRANE BLUE TRAIN + bonus track (180g BLUE vinyl) Includes new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide To Jazzs writer Brian Morton and Paris prestigious Jazz Magazine. Jazz Magazine, Paris: This album marks John Coltranes third recording as a leader. Though he had yet to realize many of the greatest achievements of his career, the fact that he established himself as an instrumentalist and as a composer so early and with such authority is a feat that few have accomplished. Penguin Guide To Jazz: All the qualities one associates with Coltrane the iron-hard tone, the harmonic precision and freedom, the often-overlooked rhythmic elasticity are already present here, but for the moment at least, the blues is still his basic language. JOHN COLTRANE, tenor saxophone; LEE MORGAN, trumpet; CURTIS FULLER, trombone; KENNY DREW, piano; PAUL CHAMBERS, bass; PHILLY JOE JONES, drums. Hackensack, New Jersey, September 15, 1957. Original session recorded by Rudy Van Gelder & produced by Alfred Lion.