John Coltrane - Soultrane in True Mono

“I think that (Giant Steps) was my best quartet recording so far, with the exception of maybe Soultrane. I put them both about the same.” — John Coltrane Recorded in February 1958 and released later that year on Prestige Records, "Soultrane" captures Coltrane at a crucial turning point. Fresh from six transformative months with Thelonious Monk where he absorbed Monk’s harmonic daring and rhythmic freedom and reunited with Miles Davis, Coltrane was forging his own post-bop language. His “sheets of sound” approach was intensifying, and his early experiments with modal improvisation were beginning to take shape. For this session, Coltrane reunited with...