John Coltrane - Ballads
Жанр: Jazz
Год выпуска диска: 1962
Производитель диска: USA
Аудио кодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: 2750+-200
Продолжительность: 32 min
Трэклист:
Side A:
"Say it (Over and Over Again)" (Frank Loesser, Jimmy McHugh) — 4:18
"You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene DePaul, Don Raye) — 5:15
Side B:
"Too Young to Go Steady" (Harold Adamson, McHugh) — 4:23
"All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) — 3:38
Side C:
"I Wish I Knew" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) — 4:54
"What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) — 3:47
Side D:
"It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) — 2:49
"Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) — 3:10
Доп. информация: Personnel
John Coltrane — tenor saxophone/soprano saxophone
McCoy Tyner — piano
Jimmy Garrison — bass
Elvin Jones — drums
Recording: December 1961, September and November 1962 at Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
by Rudy Van Gelder
Production: Bob Thiele
Review by Jack LV Isles
Throughout John Coltrane's discography there are a handful of decisive and controversial albums that split his listening camp into factions. Generally, these occur in his later-period works such as Om and Ascension, which push into some pretty heady blowing. As a contrast, Ballads is often criticized as too easy and as too much of a compromise between Coltrane and Impulse! (the two had just entered into the first year of label representation). Seen as an answer to critics who found his work complicated with too many notes and too thin a concept, Ballads has even been accused of being a record that Coltrane didn't want to make. These conspiracy theories (and there are more) really just get in the way of enjoying a perfectly fine album of Coltrane doing what he always did -- exploring new avenues and modes in an inexhaustible search for personal and artistic enlightenment. With Ballads he looks into the warmer side of things, a path he would take with both Johnny Hartman (on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman) and with Duke Ellington (on Duke Ellington and John Coltrane). Here he lays out for McCoy Tyner mostly, and the results positively shimmer at times. He's not aggressive, and he's not outwardly. Instead he's introspective and at times even predictable, but that is precisely Ballads' draw.
Technical Informations
Hannl"limited" Record Cleaning Machine
Music Hall MMF 5.1 Turntable
Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge
Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA
Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections by "Goldkabel"
Wavelab 5 recording software
ClickRepair 3.0.1 (not used)
Vacuum Cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)
