A Day in the Life of John Coltrane

VINYL FORMAT. "Recorded July 11, 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, this album is aptly named A Day in the Life of John Coltrane because the entire contents of this double album were recorded in a single day. Originally available only on three separate LPs, this quintet session (featuring a hard-hitting Chambers-Cobb-Garland rhythm section) captures Coltrane at the top of his game, although he plays no original material. Coming to prominence in the mid-fifties as Miles Davis' sideman, Coltrane's own star quickly ascended (recorded just nine months after his genre-busting Blue Train for Blue Note) and for a brief time burned brightly, hard to believe just nine years later he'd be dead." - Abraxas