Lush Life [LP]

John Coltrane's Prestige years began when he joined the Miles Davis Quintet in 1955. During the next few years, when he was either with Davis or the Thelonious Monk Quartet, he functioned as both leader and sideman for this label. These recordings document the first part of his relatively short but highly influential time in the spotlight. Lush Life, a combination of standards and a blues, treated in the unique Coltrane manner - sound wedded to material in a completely personal way - contains three tracks without a piano. This is the first time he recorded in this manner, other than when Monk was 'strolling,' and it offers another aspect from, and of, Trane. Tracklist A1 Like Someone In Love 4:55 Written By - Van Heusen A2 I Love You 5:28 Written By - Cole Porter A3 Trane's Slo Blues 6:00 Written By - John Coltrane B1 Lush Life 13:51 Bass - Paul Chambers Drums - Louis Hayes Piano - Red Garland Trumpet - Donald Byrd Written By - Billy Strayhorn B2 I Hear A Rhapsody 5:57 Bass - Paul Chambers Drums - Albert ''Tootie'' Heath Piano - Red Garland Written By - Baker , Fragos , Gasparre