• THE COMPLETE LP + 2 BONUS TRACKS
• 180-GRAM BLUE COLORED VINYL

• Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer BRIAN MORTON and by Paris' prestigious JAZZ MAGAZINE.

In 1960, and after recording the music to be issued on The Avant Garde (with Don Cherry), Coltrane's Sound and the all-time classic My Favorite Things, he embarked on the making of Coltrane Plays the Blues, a thematic LP consisting of six tunes based on the blues.

"Blues for Bechet", one of the two pieces on this album on which Trane plays the soprano sax, is obviously dedicated to the jazzman who brought this instrument to jazz: Sidney Bechet. Pianist McCoy Tyner sits out on "Blues to Bechet" and both takes of "Blues to You", reducing the band to a trio on these tracks.

PERSONNEL:

JOHN COLTRANE - (tenor sax, and soprano sax on A2 & B2 only)
McCOY TYNER - (piano (out on A2-A3 & B4)
STEVE DAVIS - (bass)
ELVIN JONES - (drums)

New York, October 24, 1960.

(*)  BONUS TRACKS:
From the same session, not included on the original LP.

TRACKS:

A1 BLUES TO ELVIN
A2 BLUES TO BECHET
A3 BLUES TO YOU
A4 BLUES TO ELVIN [alt tk] (*)

B1 MR. DAY
B2 MR. SYMS
B3 MR. KNIGHT
B4 BLUES TO YOU [alt tk] (*)