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John Coltrane Signed "Soultrane" EP
As rare as it is important, this 1958 "Soultrane" EP in the original Prestige Records sleeve -- which has one of the very, very few signatures that can be found today of Coltrane's -- represents the cornerstone of the legendary tenor jazz saxman's equally brilliant and troubled life. The record grew out of Coltrane's marathon recording sessions for Prestige in '56, which had to be abandoned because of his debilitating heroin addiction but produced some of the most soaring jazz riffs ever heard, with Coltrane -- sometimes called the "angry young tenor" -- expanding on the experimental, improvisational idiom he'd mastered playing in the Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk quartets. After kicking the habit, he returned to the studio in '58 with his own quartet, with Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Taylor on drums, and came out with "Soultrane," a magnificent exemplar of what was called "sheets of sound," in which fleeting solos melded with triple- or quadruple-time runs cascading in hundreds of notes per minute -- a style emulated by almost every jazz artist ever since, though a more spiritually oriented Coltrane himself moved on to "free jazz" and "jazz fusions" idioms in the '60s, which while reviled by jazz purists (and still is even today by Winton Marsalis, for example) were a huge influence on Jimi Hendrix's electric blues stylings. Unfortunately, Coltrane didn't get to see this turn of his legacy, as he died from liver cancer on July 17, 1967 at age 40. The "Soultrane" EP, released on Prestige's Metronome Records label with the memorable purple, green and white label, has "You Say You Care" on one side and "Theme For Ernie" on the flip. The jaw-dropping signature is on the white area of the white, green and black cover, above a picture of a closed-eyed Coltrane wailin' sax. While the writing is light, the gracefully executed signature is clear and crisp, with a long cross-stroke on the "t". Signature grades 6/10, more than good enough for a signature that would be a major find regardless of condition. Sleeve itself is VG with some mild browning/foxing most notably on the back. Disk is EX-NRMT. A "Giant Step" for Coltraine collectors.
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