Prestige
2006
Fearless Leader (Box Set)
About This Album
In the spring of 1957, when he signed with Bob Weinstock's Prestige Records, John Coltrane was still a relative newcomer to the national jazz scene. He wasn't, at age 30, a youngster by any means, and he had already been playing professionally for more than a dozen years, but most of that had been as a sideman and he was known primarily to insiders. Most recently, since 1955, he'd worked for Miles Davis, who had first recognized Coltrane's potential in the late '40s. Coltrane's blowing with Davis' quintet was often brilliant, sometimes spotty, promising overall, but the saxophonist's heroin habit was getting the better of him and Davis cut him loose a number of times before finally disbanding the group in 1957. Weinstock was well familiar with Coltrane's growing reputation and had used him as a sideman at the label. When he gave him a contract as a leader, he could not have known, of course, that he was setting off one of the most monumentally influential careers jazz would ever know. At Prestige, Coltrane, now cleaned up from drugs, was ridiculously prolific, taking part in some 27 sessions in all during 1957 and 1958, the entirety of which, 125 tracks, can be heard on the 16-disc box set The Prestige Recordings.
Track List

Disc 1 (try track 6)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.

Disc 2 (try tracks 3 and 5)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Disc 3 (try track 8)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Disc 4

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Disc 5

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Disc 6 (try tracks 3 and 5)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.