On September 1955 John Coltrane joined the Miles Davis Quintet. By that time Coltrane was a seasoned professional musician, a dyed in-the-wool jazz player who had learned his craft in a considerable number of outfits during the preceding ten years or so. Coltrane was nearly thirty years old at the time, a jazz musician who was certainly not universally acclaimed. Thus far Coltrane had failed to impress the jazz audiences at large, although he played in a distinctive but not yet fully formed style. During the next five years after his debut with Miles Davis, Coltrane moved from virtual obscurity to acclaim as the greatest tenor saxophone innovator of the era. This is the era covered in this 4CD set.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1

1. Beer Drinking Baby
2. We Love To Boogie
3. Stablemates
4. Avalon
5. Tenor Madness
6. Tenor Conclave
7. How Deep Is The Ocean
8. Oleo
9. Airegin
10. Mating Call
11. Soultrane

Disc 2

1. On A Mighty Night
2. Superjet
3. Soul Eyes
4. C.T.A
5. Monk's Mood
6. Eclypso
7. Potpourri
8. Cattin'
9. Anatomy
10. Sunday

Disc 3

1. Straight Street
2. While My Lady Sleeps
3. Chronic Blues
4. Bakai
5. Violets For Your Furs
6. Time Was
7. I Hear A Rhapsody
8. Nutty
9. Ruby, My Dear
10. Trinkle, Tinkle
11. Trane's Slow Blues
12. Like Someone In Love

Disc 4

1. You Leave Me Breathless
2. Bass Blues
3. Soft Lights And Sweet Music
4. Traneing In
5. Slow Dance
6. Lazy Bird
7. Moment's Notice
8. Blue Train
9. Locomotion
10. I'm Old Fashioned