Soultrane

{{About|the 1958 John Coltrane jazz album|the 1957 Tadd Dameron jazz tune|Mating Call}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Soultrane

| type = studio

| cover = John Coltrane - Soultrane.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1958|10}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=3woEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Soultrane+7142&pg=PA42 Billboard Oct 27, 1958]

| recorded = February 7, 1958

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder, Hackensack, New Jersey

| genre = *Jazz

hard bop

| length = 39:56

| label = Prestige

| producer = Bob Weinstock

| prev_title = John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio

| prev_year = 1958

| next_title = Giant Steps

| next_year = 1960

}}

{{music ratings

|rev1 =AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r136945}}

|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

|rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book|last1=Cook|first1=Richard|author-link1=Richard Cook (journalist)|last2=Morton|first2=Brian|author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|year=2008|title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition=9th|publisher=Penguin|page=285|isbn=978-0-141-03401-0}}

|rev5 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

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

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| page = 48

}}

|rev3 = Tom Hull

|rev3Score = A−{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/jnotes/ej1950s.php|title=Essential Jazz Albums of the 1950s|website=tomhull.com|access-date=March 12, 2020}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{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}}

}}

Soultrane is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in 1958 through Prestige Records, with catalogue no. 7142. It was recorded at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, three days after a Columbia Records session for Miles Davis and the Milestones album.

Content

The album is a showcase for Coltrane's late-1950s "sheets of sound" style, the term itself coined by critic Ira Gitler in the album's liner notes. Also featured is a long reading of Billy Eckstine's ballad standard "I Want to Talk About You", which Coltrane would revisit often, including a version on the album Live at Birdland. Among the other tracks are "Good Bait" by Tadd Dameron, and Fred Lacey's "Theme for Ernie". "You Say You Care" is from the Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

The album closes with a frenetic version of Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby". Producer Bob Weinstock relates Coltrane's humorous interpretation:

:We were doing a session and we were hung for a tune and I said, "Trane, why don't you think up some old standard?" He said, "OK I got it.["]...and they played "Russian Lullaby" at a real fast tempo. At the end I asked, "Trane, what was the name of that tune?" And he said, "Rushin' Lullaby". I cracked up.{{cite news|last=Porter|first=Lewis|author-link=Lewis Porter|title=John Coltrane: His Life and Music|location=Ann Arbor|publisher=The University of Michigan Press|year=1999|isbn=0-472-10161-7|page=253}}

Soultrane takes its title from a song on a 1956 album by Tadd Dameron featuring Coltrane, Mating Call. "Soultrane" does not appear on this Soultrane, and none of the five tunes on Soultrane is an original by Coltrane. The song "Theme for Ernie" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2005 film Hollywoodland.