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artist: John Coltrane
album: Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
label: Atlantic
discs: 2/7

genre: Jazz
rip date: 12/16/2003
rel date: 08/15/1995
# tracks: 12
size: 85MB
time: 61:54
ripper: Mongoose|

[ about this release ]

Recorded Between January 15th, 1959 and May 25th 1961.

The Heavyweight Champion is a box set that lives up to its
title. Collecting all of John Coltrane's Atlantic
recordings, including a fair number of unreleased takes as
well as an entire disc of alternate tracks and studio
chatter, the seven-disc box set documents a pivotal moment
in Coltrane's career, as he was moving from hard bop and
sweet standards to a more daring, experimental style of
playing influenced by the avant-garde. Much of the music is
hard bop (Giant Steps) or lushly melodic (My Favorite
Things), but the latter discs show the saxophonist coming to
terms with the more experimental movements in jazz as he
performs with musicians like Ornette Coleman. The scope of
this music is, quite simply, breathtaking ù not only was
Coltrane developing at a rapid speed, but the resulting
music encompasses nearly every element that made him a
brilliant musician, and it is beautiful. ù Stephen Thomas
Erlewine

[ track listing ]
trk  title                                         time

01   Spiral                                        5:59
02   Countdown                                     2:24
03   Countdown (Alternate Take)                    4:35
04   Syeeda's Song Flute                           7:03
05   Syeeda's Song Flute (Alternate Take)          7:07
06   Mr. P.C.                                      6:59
07   Giant Steps                                   4:46
08   Cousin Mary                                   5:48
09   Cousin Mary (Alternate Take)                  5:47
10   I'll Wait And Pray                            3:34
11   I'll Wait And Pray (Alternate Take)           3:28
12   Little Old Lady                               4:24

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nfo.header : knawledge  ■ 12.30.2001
nfo.layout : z0oy0rk    ■ 02.18.2001
modified.by : OSm`       ■ 12.31.2001
last.update.by : OSm`       ■ 08.12.2002