John Coltrane:
Blue Train Session
By 1957, thanks to his exposure with Miles Davis and his exploratory style of improvisation, John Coltrane was an up-and-coming and already controversial artist. At some point in late 1956 or early 1957, Coltrane stopped by Blue Note offices one evening to pick up some Sidney Bechet albums. He and Blue Note founder Alfred Lion got into a conversation about the tenor saxophonist making an album under his own name. READ MORE
Blue Train Session
By 1957, thanks to his exposure with Miles Davis and his exploratory style of improvisation, John Coltrane was an up-and-coming and already controversial artist. At some point in late 1956 or early 1957, Coltrane stopped by Blue Note offices one evening to pick up some Sidney Bechet albums. He and Blue Note founder Alfred Lion got into a conversation about the tenor saxophonist making an album under his own name. READ MORE
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