{"product_id":"john-coltrane-ballads-verve-essential-vinyl-series","title":"John Coltrane - Ballads (Verve Essential Vinyl Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerve Essential Vinyl Series 140-Gram Black Vinyl LP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the Verve Essentials pressing of Ballads: a single 140-gram black LP mastered from high-resolution digital masters and housed in the original Impulse! cover art. Verve Records and UMe created the Verve Essentials series for Verve's 70th anniversary, drawing on the catalogs of Verve and its family of labels. Ballads is one of the five titles in the opening wave, alongside records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Stan Getz and João Gilberto, Billie Holiday, and Charles Mingus. The label presents every Essentials title in a standard sleeve as a non-limited edition, so the run stays in print rather than selling through once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBallads first appeared on Impulse! in 1963, catalog A-32 in mono and AS-32 in stereo, produced by Bob Thiele and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder at his Englewood Cliffs studio. Coltrane plays tenor saxophone with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Reggie Workman holds the bass chair on \"It's Easy to Remember,\" the one track cut earlier, on December 21, 1961, and first issued in 1962 as the B-side of Coltrane's \"Greensleeves\" single. Five of the eight pieces come from a session on November 13, 1962, with \"What's New\" and \"Nancy (With the Laughing Face)\" recorded on September 18 of that year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCritic Gene Lees wrote that the quartet had never played these standards before the sessions. They arrived with music-store sheet music, talked through each tune, wrote out the changes and rehearsed for about half an hour before recording. Every piece on the album is a single take except \"All or Nothing at All.\" Ballads entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSay It (Over And Over Again)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Don't Know What Love Is\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToo Young To Go Steady\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Or Nothing At All\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Wish I Knew\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat's New\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt's Easy To Remember\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy (With The Laughing Face)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 600574213037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Verve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.9.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verve","offers":[{"title":"NEW \/ NEW","offer_id":48226615591070,"sku":"EVP-242628D9-NEW-NEW-NONE0000","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8801\/1422\/files\/JohnColtrane_Ballads_600574213037_ProductShot.png?v=1791194709","url":"https:\/\/evergreenvinyl.com\/products\/john-coltrane-ballads-verve-essential-vinyl-series","provider":"Evergreen Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}