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Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings

John Coltrane

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Album Review

The Heavyweight Champion is a box set that lives up to its title. Collecting all of John Coltrane's Atlantic recordings, including a fair number of unreleased takes as well as an entire disc of alternate tracks and studio chatter, the seven-disc box set documents a pivotal moment in Coltrane's career, as he was moving from hard bop and sweet standards to a more daring, experimental style of playing influenced by the avant-garde. Much of the music is hard bop (Giant Steps) or lushly melodic (My Favorite Things), but the latter discs show the saxophonist coming to terms with the more experimental movements in jazz. The scope of this music is, quite simply, breathtaking — not only was Coltrane developing at a rapid speed, but the resulting music encompasses nearly every element that made him a brilliant musician, and it is beautiful.

Customer Reviews

Must have material for Trane fans

This collection contains all of Trane's Atlantic work. Very important for anyone who wants to understand his development as a musician. If you don't own the albums get this collection.

TRANEtastic!

This is one of the difinitive collections to own if you are in any way shape or form even interested at ALL in listening to one of the greatest (IMHO) Jazz Saxaphone players of our time. My only beef with iTunes is why isn't it available at least by Disc number for purchase or possibly consider offering the whole package for a bit of a discount over the 86 tracks at $.99 each. Other than that, I highly recommend this one!!! Go for it.

Biography

Born: September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, NC

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '40s, '50s, '60s

Despite a relatively brief career (he first came to notice as a sideman at age 29 in 1955, formally launched a solo career at 33 in 1960, and was dead at 40 in 1967), saxophonist John Coltrane was among the most important, and most controversial, figures in jazz. It seems amazing that his period of greatest activity was so short, not only because he recorded prolifically, but also because, taking advantage of his fame, the record companies that recorded him as a sideman in the 1950s frequently reissued...
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