180 GRAM VINYL. AUDIOPHILE PRESSING. DIRECT METAL MASTERING. EXCELLENT SOUND. DELUXE GATEFOLD EDITION. Blue Train was the first LP on which John Coltrane was given the chance to select his own sidemen. He enlisted trumpeter Lee Morgan trombonist Curtis Fuller pianist Kenny Drew bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones. When Trane was asked during a 1960 radio interview which of all the albums he had recorded up to that point was his favorite the answer came quickly: Blue Train.

JOHN COLTRANE tenor saxophone; LEE MORGAN trumpet; CURTIS FULLER trombone; KENNY DREW piano; PAUL CHAMBERS bass; PHILLY JOE JONES drums
Hackensack New Jersey September 15 1957. Original session recorded by Rudy Van Gelder & produced by Alfred Lion.
* BONUS TRACK: Same personnel except Morgan & Fuller omitted. Los Angeles March 2 1956.

SIDE A:
1. BLUE TRAIN (John Coltrane)
2. MOMENT’S NOTICE (John Coltrane)
3. EASY TO LOVE (Cole Porter) *
SIDE B:
1. LOCOMOTION (John Coltrane)
2. I’M OLD FASHIONED (Jerome Kern-Johnny Mercer)
3. LAZY BIRD (John Coltrane)