1957 · Skopia

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1957

Coltrane's only record as a leader for Blue Note, made as a favor to the label's founder while he was under contract elsewhere.

★ 7.1

1957

Recorded in 1949 and 1950 by a nine-piece band with a tuba and a French horn, and not gathered onto one record until 1957.

★ 6.5

1957

The words to Tutti Frutti were too obscene to record, so a local songwriter rewrote them in fifteen minutes over a lunch break.

★ 6.4

1957

The title track was so hard to play that after twenty-five attempts they gave up and spliced a version together from pieces.

★ 6.1

1957

Nearly every song is built on the same jarring interval, a tritone, which Bernstein threads through the whole score from the opening bars.

★ 5.8

1957

Two voices at opposite ends of everything, one crystalline and one like gravel, backed by the Oscar Peterson quartet with no written arrangements.

★ 5.1

1957

Her voice had gone by then, and she sings behind the beat and around the notes, which turns out to be the whole point.

★ 3.6

1957

By 1956 Cole was a pop star who rarely played piano. Here he sits back down at it, with a small group, after hours.

★ 2.9