Continuing my new series called Perfection, today's sublime track is John Coltrane's cover of Jule Styne's composition You Say You Care, which Styne wrote for Broadway's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949).
The song is from Coltrane's Soultrane album, which features John Coltrane (ts), Red Garland (p), Paul Chambers (b) and Art Taylor (d). Recorded in February 1958 for Prestige, Soultrane is also known for Ira Gitler's liner notes, in which he coined "sheets of sound" to describe Coltrane's late 1950s approach on the saxophone
The album was recorded three days after Coltrane recorded with Miles Davis on a chunk of Davis's Milestones album for Columbia and three months before Davis's On Green Dolphin Street with his famed sextet with Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb.
Here's John Coltrane's take on You Say You Care...
Other Perfection tracks in this ongoing series...
Paul Desmond and Jim Hall: Any Other Time, go here.
