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Kenny Burrell With John Coltrane

The Kenny Burrell Quintet With John Coltrane

c. 1971-1976 · Prestige PR 7532 (P-7532) · Stereo (electronically reprocessed from the 1958 mono session, per the front-cover disclaimer) · US · LP · 33 1/3 RPM

Pressing details

Label	Prestige
Catalogue number	PR 7532 (P-7532)
Year	c. 1971-1976
Mono / Stereo	Stereo (electronically reprocessed from the 1958 mono session, per the front-cover disclaimer)
Country	US
Format	LP
Speed	33 1/3 RPM
Genre	Jazz - Hard Bop
Producer	Bob Weinstock
Musicians	John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums)

Matrix / Runout

Side A:  P7532A (ORIGA010)-2 P T1 A FS12529 AMPLRPT##1
Side B:  P7532B P GP A

Condition

Cover: VG+
Vinyl: NM

Variant chronology

1962 - US New Jazz NJLP 8276, mono original
1967-68 - US Prestige PRST 7532, first stereo Van Gelder pressing
1972 - US Prestige P-7532/PR-7532, Fantasy/Berkeley-era Terre Haute reissue, yellow 'flying bird' label  <- this copy
1973 - Japan Prestige LPR-8856 reissue

This Pressing

Fantasy-era reissue (c.1971-76) - yellow Prestige label, blue flying-bird logo, 'Prestige Records, Berkeley, California' rim text; not the original mono New Jazz or the first Prestige stereo pressing.

The Album

This session was cut on March 7, 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack studio, one of several one-off Prestige pairings producer Bob Weinstock engineered between contracted sidemen rather than a working band, bringing together John Coltrane - between his Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk tenures and just beginning to codify the harmonic vocabulary that would define his solo career - with guitarist Kenny Burrell, a fellow Detroit-schooled player whose lyrical, blues-rooted approach offered a different foil than the pianists Coltrane usually worked opposite. Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, all Detroit or Davis-band alumni, filled out a quintet that moves easily between the burning original

Tracklist

Side 1

1. Freight Trane 7:32
2. I Never Knew 7:17
3. Lyresto 5:52

Side 2

1. Why Was I Born 3:17
2. Big Paul 14:34

The Label

The side labels are yellow with a two-tone blue "flying bird" Prestige logo above black "Prestige" script, and the perimeter text reads "PRESTIGE RECORDS, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA" - the post-1971 Fantasy-era Prestige label, adopted once Fantasy Records (Berkeley, CA) bought the Prestige catalogue from Bob Weinstock. That address/logo combination places this pressing well after the 1962 New Jazz NJLP 8276 original and the 1967-68 first Prestige PRST 7532 stereo issue (which carried the earlier NYC-address Prestige fan-logo label), making this copy a Fantasy-era repress of the single-LP program, not the original or the first stereo issue, and distinct again from the later 1976 P-24059 two-LP compilation that combined this session with 'The Cats.'

Fidelity

This is an 'electronically remastered for stereo' rechanneled cut of a 1958 mono Van Gelder session, mastered/pressed during the Fantasy era, generally regarded by collectors on the forums as inferior to Van Gelder's own mono cuts and even to the first genuine Prestige stereo issue; pressing quality from this era is also often described as thin/noisy compared to the 1950s-60s Prestige/Van Gelder pressings. In the fidelity hierarchy for this session it ranks below the 1962 New Jazz NJLP 8276 mono original (true Van Gelder mono cut), below a genuine first stereo Prestige pressing if one exists, and below the Original Jazz Classics/Craft Recordings audiophile reissues mastered from the analog tapes by Kevin Gray/Fantasy engineers.

Notes

This copy is a Fantasy/Berkeley-era Prestige reissue of the single-LP program (Freight Trane/I Never Knew/Lyresto//Why Was I Born/Big Paul), issued under catalogue number P-7532, not the two-LP P-24059 compilation, which has four sides and different matrix prefixes P24059A-D. The yellow label with the blue flying-bird logo and 'Prestige Records, Berkeley, California' rim text dates it to after Fantasy's 1971 purchase of the Prestige catalogue, placing it well below the 1962 New Jazz NJLP 8276 mono original and the 1967-68 first Prestige stereo pressing in the hierarchy. The runouts read P7532A/-2 and P7532B, matching the matrix format for this catalogue number's Berkeley-rim-text version.

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