Tadd Dameron – Mating Call LP NEW John Coltrane Supply

This November 1956 date marked the first recording of the deeply moving ballad Soultrane, as well as the first exposition of the lovely line On a Misty Night (based on September in the Rain ), a number Dameron would later explore himself in other contexts. This is not a typical Tadd Dameron date in that his music is not played by a large ensemble or even a quintet. He is represented as a composer but not as an arranger; yet, his pungent themes come through strongly, carried by the searing, probing tenor saxophone of John Coltrane. With John Simmons, Philly Joe Jones.