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The Prestige Recordings [Box]

John Coltrane
16 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. Tenor Madness
2. Weeja
3. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
4. On It
5. Avalon
6. Tenor Conclave
7. How Deep Is the Ocean?
0. DISC 2:
1. Just You, Just Me
2. Bob's Boys
3. Mating Call
4. Soultrane
5. Gnid
6. Super Jet
7. On a Misty Night
8. Romas
9. Soul Eyes
0. DISC 3:
1. Anatomy
2. Interplay
3. Light Blue
4. C.T.A.
5. Eclypso
6. Solacium
7. Minor Mishap
8. Tommy's Tune
0. DISC 4:
1. Dakar
2. Mary's Blues
3. Route 4
4. Velvet Scene
5. Witches' Pit
6. Cat Walk
7. Potpourri
8. J.M.'s Dream Doll
9. Don't Explain
10. Falling in Love with Love
0. DISC 5:
1. Blue Calypso
2. Way You Look Tonight, The
3. From This Moment On
4. One by One
5. Cattin'
6. Anatomy
7. Vodka
8. Sunday
0. DISC 6:
1. Straight Street
2. While My Lady Sleeps
3. Chronic Blues
4. Bakai
5. Violets for Your Furs
6. Time Was
7. I Hear a Rhapsody
8. Trane's Slo Blues
9. Slowtrane
10. Like Someone in Love
11. I Love You
0. DISC 7:
1. Dealin' - (Take 1)
2. Dealin' - (Take 2)
3. Wheelin' - (Take 1)
4. Wheelin' - (Take 2)
5. Robbin's Nest
6. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
0. DISC 8:
1. You Leave Me Breathless
2. Bass Blues
3. Soft Lights and Sweet Music
4. Traneing In
5. Slow Dance
6. Our Delight
7. They Can't Take That Away from Me
8. Woody 'n You
9. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
0. DISC 9:
1. Undecided
2. Soul Junction
3. What Is There to Say?
4. Birk's Works
5. Hallelujah
6. All Morning Long
0. DISC 10:
1. Billie's Bounce
2. Solitude
3. Two Bass Hit
4. Soft Winds
5. Lazy Mae
6. Under Paris Skies
7. Two Sons
0. DISC 11:
1. Clifford's Kappa
2. Filide
3. Paul's Pal
4. Ammon Joy
5. Groove Blues
6. Real McCoy, The
7. It Might as Well Be Spring
0. DISC 12:
1. Lush Life
2. Believer, The
3. Nakatini Serenade
4. Come Rain or Come Shine
5. Lover
6. Russian Lullaby
7. Theme for Ernie
0. DISC 13:
1. You Say You Care
2. Good Bait
3. I Want to Talk About You
4. Lyresto
5. Why Was I Born?
6. Freight Trane
7. I Never Knew
8. Big Paul
0. DISC 14:
1. Rise 'n' Shine
2. I See Your Face Before Me
3. If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
4. Little Melonae
5. By the Numbers
6. Black Pearls
0. DISC 15:
1. Lover, Come Back to Me
2. Sweet Sapphire Blues
3. Spring Is Here
4. Invitation
5. I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All
6. Love Thy Neighbor
7. Don't Take Your Love from Me
0. DISC 16:
1. Stardust
2. My Ideal
3. I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
4. Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
5. Then I'll Be Tired of You
6. Something I Dreamed Last Night
7. Bahia
8. Goldsboro Express
9. Time After Time
Code: QZZQ
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 16PCD-4405-2
Credits

Producer
Engineer Danny Kopelson; Rudy VanGelder
125 selections totaling over 18 hours of music.
Personnel includes: John Coltrane (alto & tenor saxophones); Jackie McLean (alto saxophone); Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Bobby Jaspar, Paul Quinichette, Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne, Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone); Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman, Bill Hardman, Johnny Splawn, Freddie Hubbard (trumpet); Ray Draper (tuba); Red Garland, Elmo Hope, Tadd Dameron, Mal Waldron, Tommy Flanagan, Gil Coggins (piano); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Paul Chambers, John Simmons, Doug Watkins, Julian Euell, Earl May, Jamil Nasser, Spanky DeBrest (bass); Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor, Louis Hayes, Ed Thigpen, Albert "Tootie" Heathe, Larry Ritchie, Jimmy Cobb (drums).
Producers: Bob Weinstock, Teddy Charles, Esmond Edwards.
Compilation producer: Orrin Keepnews.
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey between May 7, 1956 and December 26, 1958. Includes liner notes by Doug Ramsey and Carl Woideck.
Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1991, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
Personnel: John Coltrane (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Frank Wess (flute, tenor saxophone); Jerome Richardson (flute); Sahib Shihab (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Jackie McLean (alto saxophone); Gene Ammons, Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, Paul Quinichette, Sonny Rollins, Zoot Sims, Bobby Jaspar (tenor saxophone); Pepper Adams, Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Wilbur Harden (trumpet, flugelhorn); Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Idrees Sulieman, Johnny Splawn, Bill Hardman (trumpet); Webster Young (cornet); Ray Draper (tuba); Elmo Hope, Gil Coggins, Mal Waldron, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron, Tommy Flanagan (piano); Ed Thigpen, Jimmy Cobb , Albert "Tootie" Heath, Louis Hayes, Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor, Larry Ritchie (drums).
Audio Remasterer: Joe Tarantino.
Liner Note Authors: Carl Woideck; Doug Ramsey.
Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack, NJ (05/07/1956-12/26/1958).
Photographers: Jim Marshall ; Burt Goldblatt; Herb Snitzer; Lee Tanner; Chuck Stewart.
OK, this is IT: for the Coltrane fan who wants/needs (almost) everything, this 16-disc set has it all--all the music John Coltrane recorded for the Prestige label in the '50s, as a leader, co-leader, and sideperson. Excluded are the recordings he did as a member of Miles Davis' Quintet, which can be found on MILES DAVIS: CHRONICLE. The tunes are a wide-ranging mixture of originals ("Straight Street"), standards ("Lush Life," "It Might As Well Be Spring") and jazz originals by composers/pianists Tadd Dameron, Mal Waldron and Tommy Flanagan.
The cast of players includes legends like guitarist Kenny Burrell, sax gods of contrasting styles/schools like Sonny Rollins, Zoot Sims and Gene Ammons, and ex-Miles drummers Jimmy Cobb and Philly Joe Jones. Heart-rending ballads, hard-swinging bop, jam sessions, more thought-out compositions (Dameron)--it's ALL here. Save your dimes, take a couple of weeks off and dive in--this jumbo box contains some of the best (and just plain fine & worthwhile) post-Charlie Parker/pre-free-era jazz. (For the more edgier side of Coltrane, check out his Impulse recordings).
Critic Reviews

Down Beat (3/92, p.46) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...an essential document ...thoroughly annotated and painstakingly packaged..."
JazzTimes (p.124) - "[T]his music is well worth acquiring..."
Option (5-6/92, p.99) - "...Originally scattered across 31 different albums, Fantasy has done a classy job, both with the sound, the package and the booklet's documentation..."