Live Trane: The European Tours (1961)

About this title: The seven-CD set Live Trane expands upon Pablo's earlier CDs of John Coltrane recorded during his European tours between 1961 and 1963, including all of The Paris Concert, Bye Bye Blackbird, The European Tour, and Afro Blue Impressions, and supplementing them with extra songs from most of these concerts. Of the 37 tracks, 19 have not previously appeared commercially (except on a number of European bootleg labels with sound ranging from barely acceptable to horrendous), and a 1961 Hamburg concert with Eric Dolphy makes its debut here. A number of titles are repeated throughout the set -- six ... read more

Tracks:

1. Impressions [Coltrane]
2. My Favorite Things [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
3. Blue Train [Coltrane]
4. Naima [Coltrane]
5. Impressions [Coltrane]
6. My Favorite Things [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
7. Mr. P.C. [Coltrane]
8. Miles' Mode [Coltrane]
9. My Favorite Things [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
10. Norman Granz Introduction [Coltrane]
11. Bye Bye Blackbird [Dixon/Henderson]
12. The Inch Worm [Loesser]
13. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye [Porter]
14. Mr. P.C. [Coltrane]
15. My Favorite Things [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
16. The Inch Worm [Loesser]
17. Mr. P.C. [Coltrane]
18. Naima [Coltrane]
19. Traneing In [Coltrane]
20. Bye Bye Blackbird [Dixon/Henderson]
21. Impressions [Coltrane]
22. Swedish Introduction [Coltrane]
23. Traneing In [Coltrane]
24. Mr. P.C. [Coltrane]
25. Naima [Coltrane]
26. The Promise [Coltrane]
27. Spiritual [Coltrane]
28. Impressions [Coltrane]
29. I Want to Talk About You [Eckstine]
30. My Favorite Things [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
31. Mr. P.C. [Coltrane]
32. Lonnie's Lament [Coltrane]
33. Naima [Coltrane]
34. Chasin' the Trane [Coltrane]
35. My Favorite Things [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
36. Afro Blue [Santamaria]
37. Cousin Mary [Coltrane]
38. I Want to Talk About You [Eckstine]
39. Impressions [Coltrane]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.