Coltrane's Sound

{{Infobox album|

| name = Coltrane's Sound

| type = studio

| cover = Coltranes_Sound.jpg

| alt =

| released = Late June/early July 1964Liner notes to The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings[https://books.google.com/books?id=gkUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Coltrane+1419&pg=PA37 Billboard July 11, 1964]

| recorded = October 24 & 26, 1960

| venue =

| studio = Atlantic (New York City)

| genre = Jazz

| length = 38:18 original LP
50:33 CD reissue

| label = Atlantic
SD 1419

| producer = Nesuhi Ertegun

| prev_title = Live at Birdland

| prev_year = 1964

| next_title = Crescent

| next_year = 1964

}}

Coltrane's Sound is an album of music by the jazz musician and composer John Coltrane. It was released in 1964 through Atlantic Records. It was recorded at Atlantic Studios in 1960 during the sessions for My Favorite Things, and was assembled after Coltrane had stopped recording for the label and had a contract with Impulse! Records. Like Prestige and Blue Note Records before them, as Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s Atlantic used unissued recordings and released them without either Coltrane's input or approval.

On February 16, 1999, Rhino Records reissued Coltrane's Sound as part of its Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Gallery series. Included were two bonus tracks: "26-2" had been previously released on the 1970 album The Coltrane Legacy; and the alternate take of "Body and Soul" had been released on the 1975 album Alternate Takes.

Reception

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = All About Jazz

|rev1score = (favorable)[http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=3417 All About Jazz review]

|rev2 = AllMusic

|rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r136908|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]

|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

|rev4score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2008 |pages=286–287 }}

|rev5 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev5Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 46

}}

In a review for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer called the album "one of the most highly underrated entries in Coltrane's voluminous catalog," and wrote: "The title could not have been more accurate, as each of the six pieces bear the unmistakable and indelible stamp of Coltrane's early-'60s style... Regardless of the lack of attention, these recordings remain among Trane's finest."

Douglas Payne of All About Jazz stated: "Spin Coltrane's Sound and even non-jazz fans sense something. It's a warm, human sound that takes listeners somewhere they like to go... [it] makes for essential, enjoyable jazz listening."

Writing for Jazz Views, Nick Lea described the album as a useful document "in tracing the saxophonist's transition from his coming out as a leader, and out from the shadow of his former boss to the ever searching and deeply exploratory playing that would ultimately lead to the classic A Love Supreme and the large scale Ascension."{{cite web |url=https://archive-jv.weebly.com/john-coltrane---trane-the-atlantic-collection.html |title=Trane: The Atlantic Collection |first=Nick |last=Lea |website=Jazz Views |access-date=April 18, 2023}}

Author Eric Nisenson singled out Coltrane's rendition of "Body and Soul" for praise, commenting: "Coltrane does what every great jazz musician can do with a tune no matter how familiar or shopworn: he makes it into a uniquely personal statement and lets us hear it anew, as if for the first time."{{cite book |last=Nisenson |first=Eric |title=Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest |publisher=Hachette Books |year=2009 |pages=97 }}