The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings

Compilation by John Coltrane

Released 15 August 1995

jazz blues

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Stairway to the Stars
3:32
2
The Late Late Blues
9:36
3
Bags & Trane
7:26
4
Three Little Words
7:30
5
The Night We Called It a Day
4:22
6
Be-Bop
8:01
7
Blues Legacy
9:04
8
Centerpiece
7:09
9
Giant Steps (alternate version)
3:44
10
Naima (alternate version)
4:31
11
Like Sonny (alternate version)
6:03
CD 2
1
Spiral
5:59
4.0 ★
2
Countdown
2:24
3.0 ★
3
Countdown (alternate take)
4:34
4
Syeeda's Song Flute
7:03
4.0 ★
5
Syeeda's Song Flute (alternate take)
7:07
6
Mr. P.C.
6:59
4.0 ★
7
Giant Steps
4:46
3.3 ★
8
Cousin Mary
5:48
4.0 ★
9
Cousin Mary (alternate take)
5:47
10
I'll Wait and Pray
3:34
11
I'll Wait and Pray (alternate take)
3:28
12
Little Old Lady
4:24
CD 3
1
Like Sonny
5:54
2
Harmonique
4:13
3
My Shining Hour
4:52
4
Naima
4:22
4.0 ★
5
Some Other Blues
5:36
6
Fifth House
4:41
7
Cherryco
6:47
8
The Blessing
7:53
9
Focus on Sanity
12:13
10
The Invisible
4:12
11
Bemsha Swing
5:04
CD 4
1
Village Blues
5:23
2
Village Blues (alternate take)
6:17
3
My Favorite Things
13:44
3.7 ★
4
Central Park West
4:14
5
Mr. Syms
5:22
6
[Exotica, untitled original]
5:22
7
Summertime
11:34
3.0 ★
8
Body and Soul
5:38
9
Body and Soul (alternate take)
5:59
10
Mr. Knight
7:31
CD 5
1
Blues to Elvin (alternate take)
11:00
2
Blues to Elvin
7:53
3
Mr. Day
7:56
4
Blues to You (alternate take)
5:35
5
Blues to You
6:29
6
Blues to Bechet
5:46
7
Satellite
5:51
8
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
5:41
3.0 ★
9
26-2
6:13
10
But Not for Me
9:34
CD 6
1
Liberia
6:51
2
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
6:51
3
Equinox
8:35
4
Ole
18:15
5
Dahomey Dance
10:52
6
Aisha
7:39
5.0 ★
7
[To Her Ladyship, original untitled ballad]
8:58
CD 7
1
Giant Steps (take 1) (incomplete)
4:43
2
Giant Steps (take 2) (false start)
0:14
3
Giant Steps (take 3) (incomplete)
2:51
4
Giant Steps (take 4) (incomplete)
1:19
5
Giant Steps (take 5) (alternate)
3:40
6
Giant Steps (take 6) (false start)
0:32
7
Giant Steps (take 7) (incomplete)
4:12
8
Naima (take 1) (incomplete)
3:20
9
Naima (take 2) (incomplete)
3:24
10
Naima (take 4) (false start)
0:15
11
Naima (take 5) (alternate)
3:50
12
Naima (take 6) (alternate)
3:38
13
Like Sonny (rehearsal 1) (false start)
0:09
14
Like Sonny (rehearsal 2) (incomplete)
1:34
15
Like Sonny (take 1) (false start)
0:19
16
Like Sonny (take 2) (incomplete)
3:08
17
Like Sonny (take 3) (incomplete)
1:08
18
Like Sonny (take 4) (false start)
0:07
19
Like Sonny (take 5) (alternate)
8:24
20
Like Sonny (take 6) (incomplete)
1:09
21
Giant Steps (take 3) (incomplete)
4:06
22
Giant Steps (take 6) (alternate)
4:54
23
Blues to Elvin (take 2) (false start)
0:10
24
Blues to Elvin (take 3) (alternate)
6:02
25
Blues to You (take 2) (alternate)
5:30

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Release credits

Ahmet Ertegun
liner notes
Art Davis
double bass [4-5, 7]
Art Taylor
drums (drum set) [7.21-22, 2.1-9]
Brian Schuman
task
Cedar Walton
piano [1.9-11, 7.1-20]
Charlie Haden
double bass [7-8]
Coco Shinomiya
task
Connie Kay
drums (drum set) [1-8]
Darcy Sullivan
task
Don Cherry
trumpet [7-11]
Ed Blackwell
drums (drum set) [7-11]
Elvin Jones
drums (drum set) [6.1-7, 4.1-10, 7.23-25, 5.1-10]
Eric Dolphy
alto saxophone [5-6], flute [4, 7]
Freddie Hubbard
trumpet [4-7]
Gene Paul
re
Geoff Gans
art direction, task
Hank Jones
piano [1-8]
Jimmy Cobb
drums (drum set) [2.10-12, 3.1-6]
Joel Dorn
liner notes, task
John Coltrane
alto saxophone [7], soprano saxophone [4.3-6, 6.4, 6.7, 3.8, 3.10, 5.6, 5.8-9], tenor saxophone [3.1-7, 3.9-11, 6.1-3, 6.5-7, 4.1-2, 4.7-10, 5.1-5, 5.7, 5.9-10, 7.1-25, 1.1-11, 2.1-12]
Lewis Porter
liner notes, task
Lex Humphries
drums (drum set) [1.9-11, 7.1-20]
McCoy Tyner
piano [4.1-10, 6.1-7, 7.23-25, 5.1-6, 5.8-10]
Milt Jackson
vibraphone [1-8]
Nancy L. Hopkins
task
Nesuhi Ertegun
task, producer [6.1-7, 4.1, 4.4-5, 4.8-10, 1.1-11, 7.1, 3.1-11, 5.2-3, 5.5-7, 5.9, 2.1-12]
Norma Edwards
task
Patrick Milligan
executive, liner notes, task
Paul Chambers
bass [4], double bass [2.1-12, 3.1-6, 1.1-11, 7.1-22]
Percy Heath
double bass [9-11]
Phil Iehle
recording [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.6-8, 2.10, 2.12, 7.1, 5.8, 5.10, 1.9-11, 3.1-11, 4.1, 4.3, 4.7]
Phil Ramone
recording [4-7]
Reggie Workman
double bass [4-6]
Stephen K. Peeples
task
Steve Davis
double bass [7.23-25, 6.1, 6.1-3, 4.1-10, 5.1-7, 5.7-10]
Ted Myers
task
Tom Dowd
recording [1.1-11, 4.1, 4.3-5, 4.7-10, 5.2-3, 5.5-10, 7.1, 2.1-12, 3.1-11, 6.1-3]
Tommy Flanagan
piano [7.21-22, 2.1-9]
Wynton Kelly
piano [2.10-12, 3.1-6]
İlhan Mimaroğlu
task [2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.11, 4.9, 1.9-11]

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The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
7x CD
15 August 1995