The Prestige Recordings


The Prestige Recordings is a box set by jazz musician John Coltrane.

Reception

In review for AllMusic Lindsay Planer wrote: "The 16 CDs in this compendium represent nearly everything that John Coltrane recorded for the Prestige label during a 32-month period between May 7, 1956, and December 26, 1958... Accompanying the music is a 32-page liner notes booklet. Inside are a historical essay from Doug Ramsey, a session-by-session breakdown by Carl Woideck..., and several different cross-references of the contents. Overall, the audio quality is excellent throughout, especially considering that the original tapes were transferred during the infancy of digital audio technology."
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented: "The boxed set offers the most comprehensive and, for most listeners, exhaustive documentation of Trane's time with the label... It reveals the saxophonist still in larval stage and not yet the compellingly beautiful imago of the Atlantic years."

Track listing

CD1

  1. Tenor Madness
  2. Weeja
  3. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
  4. On It
  5. Avalon
  6. Tenor Conclave
  7. How Deep is the Ocean?

CD2

  1. Just You, Just Me
  2. Bob's Boys
  3. Mating Call
  4. Soultrane
  5. Gnid
  6. Super Jet
  7. On A Misty Night
  8. Romas
  9. Soul Eyes

CD3

  1. Anatomy
  2. Interplay
  3. Light Blue
  4. C.T.A.
  5. Eclypso
  6. Solacium
  7. Minor Mishap
  8. Tommy's Tune

CD4

  1. Dakar
  2. Mary's Blues
  3. Route 4
  4. Velvet Scene
  5. Witches' Pit
  6. Cat Walk
  7. Pot Pourri
  8. J.M.'s Dream Doll
  9. Don't Explain
  10. Falling In Love With Love

CD5

  1. Blue Calypso
  2. The Way You Look Tonight
  3. From This Moment On
  4. One By One
  5. Cattin'
  6. Anatomy
  7. Vodka
  8. Sunday

CD6

  1. Straight Street
  2. While My Lady Sleeps
  3. Chronic Blues
  4. Bakai
  5. Violets For Your Furs
  6. Time Was
  7. I Hear A Rhapsody
  8. Trane's Slow Blues
  9. Slowtrane
  10. Like Someone in Love
  11. I Love You

CD7

  1. Dealin'
  2. Dealin'
  3. Wheelin'
  4. Wheelin'
  5. Robbin's Nest
  6. Things Ain't What They Used To Be

CD8

  1. You Leave Me Breathless
  2. Bass Blues
  3. Soft Lights And Sweet Music
  4. Traneing In
  5. Slow Dance
  6. Our Delight
  7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
  8. Woody'n You
  9. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

CD9

  1. Undecided
  2. Soul Junction
  3. What Is There To Say?
  4. Birk's Works
  5. Hallelujah
  6. All Mornin' Long

CD10

  1. Billie's Bounce
  2. Solitude
  3. Two Bass Hit
  4. Soft Winds
  5. Lazy Mae
  6. Under Paris Skies
  7. Two Sons

CD11

  1. Clifford's Kappa
  2. Filide
  3. Paul's Pal
  4. Ammon Joy
  5. Groove Blues
  6. The Real McCoy
  7. It Might As Well Be Spring

CD12

  1. Lush Life
  2. The Believer
  3. Nakatini Serenade
  4. Come Rain or Come Shine
  5. Lover
  6. Russian Lullaby
  7. Theme For Ernie

CD13

  1. You Say You Care
  2. Good Bait
  3. I Want To Talk About You
  4. Lyresto
  5. Why Was I Born?
  6. Freight Trane
  7. I Never Knew
  8. Big Paul

CD14

  1. Rise 'N' Shine
  2. "I See Your Face Before Me"
  3. If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
  4. Little Melonae
  5. By The Numbers
  6. Black Pearls

CD15

  1. Lover Come Back To Me
  2. Sweet Sapphire Blues
  3. Spring Is Here
  4. Invitation
  5. I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All
  6. Love Thy Neighbor
  7. Don't Take Your Love From Me

CD16

  1. Stardust
  2. My Ideal
  3. I'll Get By
  4. Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
  5. Then I'll Be Tired Of You
  6. Something I Dreamed Last Night
  7. Bahia
  8. Goldsboro Express
  9. Time After Time