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Re: A lot of latter day revisionism takes place with Coltrane...

Allan, there is for sure some value to the Prestige stuff. Traneing In, Soultrane, Black Pearls, Settin The Pace - all excellent, particularly the latter two. But Prestige viciously milked the outtakes and released tons of albums after he had made it big, Standard Coltrane, The Last Trane, and so on being not very good. Also, looking back on the Prestige/Miles stuff, I like the Cookin/Relaxin/Steamin/Workin sessions, but it is obvious that Coltrane was struggling to get his intonation and technique straight. So the Prestige stuff is often good, but in my opinion, if that were all there was of Coltrane, this stuff would be long forgotten. Dexter, Sonny Rollins, and plenty more tenor men could blow him off the bandstand in that era, on the nights Coltrane was awake enough on the bandstand to notice.

To answer your analogy, if you want to start at the beginning, that's fine, just avoid most of the post-contract Prestige stuff and stick to the albums released at the time. Do you really want to read all of Melville's novels BEFORE Moby Dick? Maybe, but you would surely avoid the early ones that aren't very good, and concentrate on the good ones, that really show his talent in full bloom. Fully formed Coltrane really begins at Blue Train, and comes to complete fruition with Giant Steps.

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