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Additions, deletions and corrections to The John Coltrane Reference, for the year 1958.

58-0103
  The  Discography entry (p. 501) is revised as follows:
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  CD BHM (ZYX) 2013-2
58-0110
  The  Discography entry (p. 503) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0110, Issue Data 8, Reissues of CD Prestige (J) VICJ-60964 (John Coltrane Plays Ballads: Stardust):
  Reissues: See session 56-1130 <see pp. 452, 470, 479, 509, 534, 545>
(8/21/08 WS)
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  CD BHM (ZYX) 2013-2
  CD Solar Records 4569894
58-0204
  The  Discography entry (p. 505) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0204, Issue Data 1, Reissues of LP Columbia CL 1193 (Milestones…Miles Davis):
  CD Columbia/Sony (J) SICP-1203; CD Columbia/Sony (J) SICP-10082
(8/21/08 WS)
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  Chrome Dreams 5069
58-0207
  The  Discography entry (p. 508) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0207, Issue Data 1, Reissues of LP Prestige LP 7142 (Soultrane):
  CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41510; CD Prestige PRCD-30006-2 (RVG Remasters);CD Prestige (J) UCCO-5013; CD Prestige (J) UCCO-9024
 
add to session 58-0207, Issue Data 1, (John Coltrane) LP Prestige P 24003 (2 LP) …
  CD Prestige PRCD-24003 <see p. 480>
 
add to session 58-0207, Issue Data 1:
  CD Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55420 (John Coltrane Quartet with Red Garland/Complete Recordings) (3 CD) <see pp. 470, 479, 480, 516, 545>
 
  The  Discography entry (p. 509) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0207, Issue Data 9, Reissues of CD Prestige (J) VICJ-60964 (John Coltrane Plays Ballads: Stardust)
  Reissues: See session 56-1130 <see pp. 452, 470, 479, 503, 534, 545>
 
add to session 58-0207, Issue Data 11, (Ballads and More-John Coltrane):
  CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41436 <see pp. 517, 522>
(8/21/08 WS)
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  Not Now NOT2CD291
  Chrome Dreams 5069
58-0304
  The  Discography entry (p. 511) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0304, Issue Data 5, CD Sony Mastersound (J) SRCS-9744 (1958 Miles [+2]):
  Reissues: See session 55-1026(strong>
(8/21/08 WS)
58-0307
  The  Discography entry (p. 512) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0307, Issue Data 1, Reissues of LP New Jazz LP 8276 (Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane):
  CD New Jazz (J) VICJ-41711; CD Prestige 188107-2 (RVG Remasters);CD New Jazz (J) UCCO-5042; CD Prestige (J) UCCO-9042
 
add to session 58-0307, Issue Data 1:
  CD Prestige PRCD5-30204 (John Coltrane/Interplay) (5 CD) <see pp. 437, 458, 463, 465, 467, 488>
 
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  Chrome Dreams 5069
(Page 512). Session Note #2. The Dinah Washington recording cited as being the same as "Freight Trane" is actually entitled "Drummer Man", not "Baby Get Lost". This note should read as follows:
Saxophonist Greg Wall pointed out an interesting fact to Lewis Porter: At the Dinah Washington recording session of March 4, 1949, the theme played on “Drummer Man” is the same one used here on “Freight Trane.” (Coltrane was not on the 1949 session.) Tommy Flanagan told Porter that he did not write “Freight Trane,” although he is listed as composer. Kenny Burrell wrote to Porter on May 6, 1996, that this tune was played around Detroit, but “we did not know the composer.” (L.Porter 3/30/08)
Note: we have also corrected the spelling of the title of this composition, which appears as both "Freight Train" and "Freight Trane" in the body of the entry and in this note. Although "Freight Train" appears in a number of discographies, the original release of the session (and subsequent reissues) all show the title as "Freight Trane". (3/30/08)
58-0313
  The  Discography entry (p. 514)) is revised as follows:
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  LP Doxy DOX 824
58-0326
  The  Discography entry (p. 516) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0326, Issue Data 1, Reissues of LP Prestige LP 7213 (John Coltrane/Settin’ the Pace):
  CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41610; CD Prestige (J) UCCO-5112; CD Prestige (J) UCCO-9095
 
add to session 58-0326, Issue Data 3:
  CD Prestige PRCD-30646-2 (Settin’ the Pace [+1]) (RVG Remasters)
 
add to session 58-0326, Issue Data 3:
  CD Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55420 (John Coltrane Quartet with Red Garland/Complete Recordings) (3 CD) <see pp. 470, 479, 480, 508, 545>
 
  The  Discography entry (p. 517) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0326, Issue Data 5, (Ballads and More-John Coltrane):
  CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41436 <see pp. 509, 522>
(8/21/08 WS)
58-0513
  The  Discography entry (p. 518) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0513
  CD Prestige Records (UK) CDSGP 0266 (Once in a While) <see p. 527> includes [b.], [c.] and one take of [a.]
(8/21/08 WS)
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  LP Doxy DOX 824
58-0517
  The  Discography entry (p. 520) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0517, Track Notes *2, after CD Megadisc (no no.):
  “and CD RLR 88632”
 
add to session 58-0517, Issue Data 1, after LP Jbir JAZ 2005:
  CD Passport/Just Jazz JJCD-1004 (Miles Davis/Miles Tones) (same titles listed as on Jbir JAZ 2005)
 
  The  Discography entry (p. 521) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0517, Issue Data 7:
  CD JPY (J) 5800 (Miles Davis Meets John Coltrane) (2 CD) <announcement not checked> <see “typos…” p. 569>
 
add to session 58-0517, Issue Data 7:
  CD Rare Live Recordings RLR 88632 (Miles Davis Quintet & Sextet/Radio Broadcasts 1958-1959) <see 535, 542, 548>
(8/21/08 WS)
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  Domino (Eu) 891221
58-0523
  The  Discography entry (p. 522) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0523, Issue Data 1, Reissues of LP Prestige LP 7316 (Black Pearls/John Coltrane):
  CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41317; CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41611
 
Add to session 58-0523, Issue Data 2, (Ballads and More-John Coltrane):
  CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41436 <see pp. 509, 517>
(8/21/08 WS)
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  CD Solar Records 4569894
  Not Now NOT2CD291
58-0526
  The  Discography entry (p. 524) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0526, Issue Data 3:
  CD Jazz Beat JB 524 (Miles Davis/Jazz Track - Frantic/Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud)
 
session 58-0526, Issue Data 5:
  delete LP CBS 62637 (Facets)”
 
  The  Discography entry (p. 526) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0526, Issue Data 14, CD Sony Mastersound (J) SRCS-9744 (1958 Miles [+2]):
  Reissues: See session 55-1026
(8/21/08 WS)
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  Chrome Dreams 5069
.

58-0624
  The Discography entry (p. 527) is revised as follows:
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  Chrome Dreams 5069
58-0625
  The  Discography entry (p. 528) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0625, Issue Data 1, Reissues of LP Ph (F) 849.471 BY (Michel Legrand Meets Miles Davis/Ben Webster/Donald Byrd/Paul Chambers/John Coltrane…):
  CD Ph (J) UCCU-9242
(8/21/08 WS)
58-0711
  The  Discography entry (p. 533) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0711, Issue Data 1, Reissues of LP Prestige LP 7243 (John Coltrane/Standard Coltrane):
  CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41609
 
add to session 58-0711, Issue Data 3, Reissues of LP Prestige LP 7268 (John Coltrane/Stardust):
  CD Prestige (J) VICJ-41608; CD Prestige PRCD-30168-2 (RVG Remasters);CD Prestige (J) UCCO-9041; CD Prestige (J) UCCO-5062
 
  The  Discography entry (p. 534) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0711, Issue Data 8, Reissues of CD Prestige (J) VICJ-60964 (John Coltrane Plays Ballads: Stardust):
  Reissues: See session 56-1130 <see pp. 452, 470, 479, 503, 509, 545>
(8/21/08 WS)
58-0809
  The  Discography entry (p. 535) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-0809, Issue Data 1:
  CD Rare Live Recordings RLR 88632 (Miles Davis Quintet & Sextet/Radio Broadcasts 1958-1959) (misdated 58-0630) <see pp. 521, 542, 548>
(8/21/08 WS)
58-0925
  The  Discography entry (p. 539) is revised as follows:
add to title listing for session 58-0925 a.-d.
  1 following “PR”
add to session 58-0925 after Session/Issue Notes:
  Issue Data
add to session 58-0925, Issue Data:
  1               
CD Cool Jazz COOL JAZZ-526 (COOL JAZZ NO. 017/200 on backcover) (Joe Brazil and Friends).  This has also been listed as John Coltrane - Private Basement Session.
<thanks to Oliver Hartmann , 7/15/11>
58-1000. In an interview in Coda in 1979 (Issue #166, 4/1/79, p. 8), reprinted with modifications on page 122 of "Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz", by Paul Bley with David Lee, (Véhicule Press, 1999), Paul Bley reports having seen a 90-minute film of the Miles/Trane/Cannonball group in Philadelphia:
"To get back to why visuals; this was just an experience. Somebody about five or ten years ago played me a black&white video tape of a concert by Miles Davis in a theatre in Philadelphia. It was Coltrane, Cannonball, Bill Evans, whoever. This was a single camera on the first balcony, that just turned to the left for the piano solo, to the center for the trumpet and saxophone solos, and to the right for rhythm section solos. The concert lasted an hour and a half. They used a long lens so that you could bring in closeups." 
In the later reprint, Bley is more specific about the personnel: "It was the band with Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones."

While it would be marvelous if such a document existed, evidence suggests that Bley's memory is flawed, and that he is remembering a later concert, perhaps conflating several videotaped performances by later Miles Davis groups.

--Bley's personnel listing is vague ("whoever") in the original interview
--The period when Bill Evans was a member of the group is fairly brief, and so far we have not found evidence of a concert by that group in a theatre in Philadelphia in 1958 (the session number 58-1000 simply indicates the ending date of that group's existence).
--Bley says "video tape", which would not have been an option for other than a professional, commercial broadcaster
--To film a 90 minute concert using 16mm film (the commonly available technology) would have been VERY expensive and would required two cameras because the film reels ran out every 20 minutes.
--we've found no other report of such a film, which seems unlikely given the complexities involved in making such a film.
(2/6/08)
58-1013
  The  Discography entry (p. 540) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-1013, Issue Data 1, Reissues of (Coltrane Time):
  CD UA (J) TOCJ-9255; CD UA (J) TOCJ-6891
 

Issue Data:

The Reference (p. 540) gives "released ca. Feb - May 1959" as the release date of Hard Driving Jazz.  However, the release date was probably closer to February than to May.  A brief review of the album appeared in the February 25, 1959 issue of Variety (p. 44).  The following is the entire review:

"The title of this set may be somewhat misleading.  Although the program includes titles like 'Double Clutching' and "Shifting Down,' the style is more smooth sailing on cool waters than hard-driving over rocking roads.  Pianist Cecil Taylor and combo swings only on occasion within the cerebral confines."
Thanks to H. Herold for providing this information
(7/6/08)
58-1101
  The  Discography entry (p. 542) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-1101, Issue Data 2:
  CD JPY (J) 5800 (Miles Davis Meets John Coltrane) (2 CD) <announcements not checked> <see “typos…” p. 569>
 
add to session 58-1101, Issue Data 2:
  CD Rare Live Recordings RLR 88632 (Miles Davis Quintet & Sextet/Radio Broadcasts 1958-1959) <see pp. 521, 535, 548>
(8/21/08 WS)
58-1226
  The  Discography entry (p. 544) is revised as follows:
add to title listing session 58-1226 d-2.,e.,f-3.:
  12
 
  The  Discography entry (p. 545) is revised as follows:
add to session 58-1226, Issue Data 11, Reissues of CD Prestige (J) VICJ-60964 (John Coltrane Plays Ballads: Stardust):
  Reissues: See session 56-1130 <see pp. 452, 470, 479, 503, 509, 534>
 
Add to session 58-1226, Issue Data 12:
  CD Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55420 (John Coltrane Quartet with Red Garland/Complete Recordings) (3 CD) <see pp. 470, 479, 480, 508, 516>
(8/21/08 WS)
Partial or complete reissues of this session:
  CD Solar Records 4569894