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Average Pepper Adams date wrongly attributed to Coltrane...

Ashra | Canada | 09/13/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Pity about this oner, it is a Pepper Adams record wrongly reissued by Prestige under Coltrane's name, in a sideman appearance and an average one at that. Great RVG remastering as usual, but still, it's nothing more than a routine date, and the continued use of Coltrane's name as the leader is deceptive and should have been corrected - or in some way handled more honestly by Concord."

Another buried treasure in coltrane's discography,

fluffy, the human being. | forest lake, mn | 03/29/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"this fine set from april, 1957 has two baritone saxophone players joining up with coltrane's tenor. cecil payne and pepper adams deliver fine performances on an album that is quite conventional when compared with what was soon to come from john coltrane. nevertheless, mr trane hits many a moment of intensity here, and fans of his later work should enjoy this release just fine. the excellent piano man mal waldron is on board, too. it's a session that is well worth having."

I Recommend You Save Up Until You Can Buy Fearless Leader, H

Talking Wall | Queen Creek, AZ | 02/05/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"All of Coltrane's Prestige catalog, while not so much influenced by the Eastern sounds that would later envelop his music, is wonderful. You get to hear Trane in a more traditional setting somewhere between his work with Miles (in fact he was still with Miles when this stuff was recorded) and his first steps (ha pun not intended) away from more traditional tunes on the Atlantic label. Now, there are 11 CDs that make up this catalog (Trane as a leader on Prestige). You do the math. If you buy 'em separately you are going to pay around $125.00. You can get the Fearless Leader box set right here on Amazon for half that price PLUS you get a great guide to all the music Trane recorded as a leader for Prestige, a complete "session-ography", nice picks of all the CD covers including some of those that went through some changes over the year, 45 rpm single covers and so on. It's a very nice package. Buy this if you must but I recommend you save your pennies for a few weeks until you can afford to buy Fearless Leader.Fearless Leader"