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Article: John Coltrane Quartet: Ballads (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab UDCD 731).(Review)
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- Sensible Sound
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- April 1, 1999
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John Coltrane Quartet: Ballads (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab UDCD 731)
For the truly hard-core John Coltrane fans who are also hard-core audiophiles, this gold CD is going to be an automatic purchase. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1962, Ballads presents the softer side of John Coltrane, which for most audiophiles is much more interesting than the softer side of Sears. What is interesting to me is the way that Coltrane could play lyrically without ever sounding sentimental -- the man seems to have been simply incapable of ...