Play The Blues +2＜限定盤＞

WAX、VINYL LOVERS、PAN-AM…
ジャズ名盤が続々復刻、物欲そそるレコードが勢ぞろい!

コルトレーン名盤に挙げられることも多い人気作『Play The Blues』にボーナストラック追加・180g 重量盤としてリイシューです!

身も蓋もないタイトル、A 面に"Blues To～"・B 面に"Mr. ～" が並ぶ、という遊び心と素っ気なさが並列した極めて魅力的な逸品であり、『ジャイアント・ステップ』や『マイ・フェイバリット・シングス』など同時期の名盤と比べることでさらに面白さが増してくる作品です。

推しどころはこのジャケ!オリジナルもこれだったのでは…と錯覚させるくらいグッとくるジャケに変更されております、これは是非ともレコードで持ちたいものですね…!

Coltrane's sessions for Atlantic in late October 1960 were prolific, yielding the material for My Favorite Things, Coltrane Plays the Blues, and Coltrane's Sound. My Favorite Things was destined to be the most remembered and influential of these, and while Coltrane Plays the Blues is not as renowned or daring in material, it is still a powerful session. As for the phrase "plays the blues" in the title, that's not an indicator that the tunes are conventional blues (they aren't). It's more indicative of a bluesy sensibility, whether he is playing muscular saxophone or, on "Blues to Bechet" and "Mr. Syms," the more unusual sounding (at the time) soprano sax. Elvin Jones, who hadn't been in Coltrane's band long, really busts out on the quicker numbers, such as "Blues to You" and "Mr. Day." [Some reissues add five bonus tracks: two alternates apiece of "Blues to Elvin" and "Blues to You," and "Untitled Original (Exotica)." All three were recorded on October 24, 1960. Also, a two-CD Expanded Edition released in 2017 included 13 bonus tracks recorded between 1957 and 1960, featuring the aforementioned Jones, pianist McCoy Tyner and bassist Steve Davis (both also heard on the original Plays the Blues album), as well as such additional jazz luminaries as Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Gene Ammons, Cecil Payne, Pepper Adams, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Red Garland, Mal Waldron, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor.] ~ Richie Unterberger