Blue Train gets the Tone Poet treatment—twice.
ith its indelible Francis Wolff cover image of a pensive John Coltrane bathed in blue, freshly fired by Miles Davis but four months free of heroin, and its confident, accessible music that hints at the genius to come, Coltrane’s is a timeless jazz masterpiece. The saxophonist’s only album as a leader for Blue Note, recorded before his triumphs at Atlantic Records— and —the boppy , which, including the original mono and stereo pressings, had been issued 272 times, remains important for many reasons. First, there’s the wonderful playing. At 32
