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Stereo Drive is an album by jazz musician Cecil Taylor featuring John Coltrane.[2] It was released in 1959 on United Artists Records, catalogue UAS 5014. The mono edition was issued as UAL 4014 with the title Hard Driving Jazz credited to The Cecil Taylor Quintet, and later reissued under Coltrane's name in 1962 as Coltrane Time (UAJS 15001). Compact disc reissues appeared on the Blue Note Records label credited to Coltrane. It is the only known recording featuring both Coltrane and Taylor.[3]
Taylor has described how the record company determined the choice of musicians on the session: "I said 'Coltrane okay, but I want to use all the musicians that I want.' I wanted to use Ted Curson, who's a much more contemporary trumpet player than the trumpet player I ended up with, Kenny Dorham." Relations between Taylor, who favoured a very avant-garde approach, and Dorham, who verbally disapproved of Taylor's "way-out" tendencies, were strained.[4]
Track listing
- "Shifting Down" (Dorham) — 10:43
- "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Lewis) — 6:17
- "Like Someone in Love" (Van Heusen, Burke) — 8:13
- "Double Clutching" (Israels) — 8:18
Personnel
- Cecil Taylor — piano
- Kenny Dorham — trumpet
- John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
- Chuck Israels — bass
- Louis Hayes — drums
References
- ^ "Coltrane Time - John Coltrane | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ Crispin, Darla; Gilmore, Bob (October 7, 2014). Artistic Experimentation in Music: An Anthology. Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789462700130 – via Google Books.
- ^ Yanow, S. *Stereo Drive at AllMusic
- ^ Spellman, A. B. (1985 originally 1966). Four Lives in the Bebop Business. Limelight. p. 69.