Traneing In ［6CD+7inch］

1000セット生産限定!ジョン・コルトレーンが1960年～62年の間に自身のカルテットで行ったパフォーマンスを収録したもので、どれもレア音源として名高いものばかり!これまでにマイナーなレーベルでもリリースされたことのある音源ではありますが、それを6枚のCD+7インチ盤に収録したセットものとしての復刻。音源は試聴可能な形に復元し、リマスタリング。

First of all, this disc is not a reissue of the Prestige album of the same name with John Coltrane and pianist Red Garland's trio. This Traneing In exists in a gray area. Birdland Records, a subsidiary of AAO Records, has released similar discs by artists ranging from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to John Denver and Willie Nelson for some time, all of them taken from radio or television broadcasts. This set has appeared under various titles over the years as bootlegs, including Transcendence on Summit Records in 1961, as John Coltrane on Bluenite Records in 1962, as Impressions in Blue on Mastersound in 2000, and as Traneing In on United Audio in 2005. Most of the performances on this disc are taken from concerts in Europe during November of 1961. "Blue Train" and "Impressions" come from a television appearance in Baden-Baden, West Germany. While the beginning of Dolphy's alto solo is muffled in the beginning of the first track, it quickly comes to the fore. "Naima" comes from the first of two concerts in Copenhagen, while "Impressions" is from the second. The abbreviated reading -- by more than half of its usual duration -- occurred in Frankfurt. The two exceptions to the 1961 rule are, inexplicably (since there was ample material from those dates that didn't make it here), "Spiritual" and the title cut, which come from a 1963 European tour sans Dolphy and with Jimmy Garrison replacing Reggie Workman in the bass chair. All of this material -- in proper sequence -- appeared on Pablo's licensed Live Trane: The European Tours in 2001, where it is of better sound quality (at least marginally) and is well documented as well as officially licensed from the estate. ~ Thom Jurek|