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Tracks A1 & A4 : Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Recording Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, September 26, 1962. From the album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Impulse, 1962.
Tracks A2 & C1 : Recorded at A&R Studios, New York, May 25, 1961. From the album Olé, Atlantic, 1961.
Track A3 : Recorded in Nashville, January 19, 1952. From a Gay Crosse & His Good Humor Six collector single, Gotham, 1962.
Track B1 : Recorded in New York City, December 2, 1959. From the album Giant Steps, Atlantic, 1960.
Track B2 : Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey, August 16, 1957. From the album Lush Life, Prestige, 1961.
Track B3 : Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey, February 7, 1958. From the John Coltrane with Red Garland album Soultrane, Prestige, 1958.
Track B4 : Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey, August 23, 1957. From the album John Coltrane with The Red Garland Trio, Prestige, 1958, reissued as Traneing In, Prestige, 1961.
Track D1 : Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey, September 15, 1957. From the album Blue Train, Blue Note, 1957.
Track D2 : Recorded in New York, April 2, 1958. From The Miles Davis album Milestones, Columbia, 1958.
Track D3 : Recorded in Hackensack, May 31, 1957. From the album Coltrane, Prestige, 1957.

On track A3 credits, Gay Cross is misprinted as Gay Grosse.
Track B3 is heavily miscredited for :
- the recording date and personnel : 2 Aug, 1949. Nat King Cole (p, voc), Irving Ashby (g), Joe Comfort (b), Jack Constanzo (cga) with The Starlighters (vocal chorus) instead of February 7, 1958 : John Coltrane (ten. sax), Red Garland (p), Paul Chambers (b), Art Taylor (d) ;
- the original album : John Coltrane with Red Garland Trio instead of Soultrane.

Notes in French (backsleeve, bottom left) :

JOHN WILLIAM COLTRANE (1926-1967)
John William Coltrane fait partie des musiciens rares qui transforment l’univers esthétique de leur génération. Le jazz des années 60 n’aurait pas cette liberté, sans l’intervention géniale de John Coltrane. Il ne transforme pas seulement la mélodie et l’harmonie, il révolutionne l’esprit du jazz. Comme le peintre cherche à restituer sur une toile à deux dimensions la richesse de son univers mental, Coltrane, restitue dans sa musique un univers mental personnel et ne réplique jamais les formes et les schémas déjà utilisés. S’il n’a pas tout de suite convaincu le microcosme du jazz des années 50, un travail acharné et l’envie viscérale de transmettre sa vérité l’ont vite propulsé au sommet et ont fait de lui un chef de file incontesté de la modernité. La musique de Coltrane est un message personnel, je m’assois et j’écoute.

Notes in English (backsleeve, bottom right)

JOHN WILLIAM COLTRANE (1926-1967)
John William Coltrane belong to those rare musicians who transform the stylistic universe of their generation. Coltrane was a genius, and without his contributions jazz in the Sixties wouldn't have enjoyed its freedom. He transfigured not only melody, and harmony, but revolutionised the entire spirit of jazz. Like a painter seeking to reproduce the richness of his mind on a canvas of only two dimensions, Coltrane restituted a personal mental universe in his music and never duplicated forms and patterns already used. The microcosm of jazz in the Fifties didn't find Coltrane convincing at first, but his relentless effort and his visceral desire to convey his own truth catapulted him to the summits and made him the undisputed leader of modern jazz. Coltrane's music is a personal message, so i sit down and listen.

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