The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings

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
  3.4 ★
• 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
  3.6 ★
• 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

More by John Coltrane

A Love Supreme

A Love Supreme 1965

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 1963

My Favorite Things

My Favorite Things 1961

Lush Life

Lush Life 1961

Giant Steps

Giant Steps 1960

Soultrane

Soultrane 1958

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) [5.1-10, 6.1-7, 7.23-25, 4.1-10]
• 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) [3.1-6, 2.10-12]
• Joel Dorn
  liner notes, task
• John Coltrane
  alto saxophone [7], soprano saxophone [6.4, 6.7, 3.8, 3.10, 5.6, 5.8-9, 4.3-6], tenor saxophone [4.1-2, 4.7-10, 2.1-12, 7.1-25, 1.1-11, 6.1-3, 6.5-7, 5.1-5, 5.7, 5.9-10, 3.1-7, 3.9-11]
• Lewis Porter
  liner notes, task
• Lex Humphries
  drums (drum set) [1.9-11, 7.1-20]
• McCoy Tyner
  piano [6.1-7, 7.23-25, 5.1-6, 5.8-10, 4.1-10]
• Milt Jackson
  vibraphone [1-8]
• Nancy L. Hopkins
  task
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  task, producer [5.2-3, 5.5-7, 5.9, 7.1, 6.1-7, 2.1-12, 3.1-11, 1.1-11, 4.1, 4.4-5, 4.8-10]
• Norma Edwards
  task
• Patrick Milligan
  executive, liner notes, task
• Paul Chambers
  bass [4], double bass [7.1-22, 3.1-6, 1.1-11, 2.1-12]
• Percy Heath
  double bass [9-11]
• Phil Iehle
  recording [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.6-8, 2.10, 2.12, 5.8, 5.10, 1.9-11, 3.1-6, 4.1, 4.3, 4.7, 7.1]
• Phil Ramone
  recording [4-7]
• Reggie Workman
  double bass [4-6]
• Stephen K. Peeples
  task
• Steve Davis
  double bass [5.1-7, 5.7-10, 6.1, 6.1-3, 7.23-25, 4.1-10]
• Ted Myers
  task
• Tom Dowd
  recording [4.1, 4.3-5, 4.7-10, 5.2-3, 5.5-10, 6.1-3, 3.1-6, 1.1-11, 2.1-12, 7.1]
• Tommy Flanagan
  piano [7.21-22, 2.1-9]
• Wynton Kelly
  piano [2.10-12, 3.1-6]
• İlhan Mimaroğlu
  task [1.9-11, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.11, 4.9]
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  The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings

  7x CD
  15 August 1995