condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert included. No obi.

The 1957 debut as a leader: John Coltrane fresh from the Miles Davis quintet, stepping out front with Red Garland, Paul Chambers and company, already stacking harmonies in that unmistakable, obsessive way. The sheets of sound are audibly under construction here - chorus after chorus of dense, searching lines from a man who practiced like the building was on fire. The Prestige years get less mythology than what came after, but this is where the discipline was forged, and the playing is ferocious by any standard. Where the greatest discography in modern jazz officially begins. Japanese Prestige pressing, quiet and true.