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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blue_train_4152.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Blew by 'Trane, alright...]]
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4	''Blue Train'' is Music/JohnColtrane's second solo album, released in 1958 on Blue Note Records. Widely regarded as one of his greatest albums, it is most famous for the title track.
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6	!!Tracklist
7	[[AC:Side One]]
8	# "Blue Train" (10:43)
9	# "Moment's Notice" (9:10)
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11	[[AC:Side Two]]
12	[numlist:3]
13	# "Locomotion" (7:14)
14	# "I'm Old Fashioned" (7:58)
15	# "Lazy Bird" (7:00)
16	[/numlist]
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18	The 1997 CD reissue added two bonus tracks: "Blue Train" (9:58) and "Lazy Bird" (7:12).
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20	!!Personnel
21	* Music/JohnColtrane: tenor saxophone
22	* Lee Morgan: trumpet
23	* Curtis Fuller: trombone
24	* Kenny Drew: piano
25	* Paul Chambers: bass
26	* Philly Joe Jones: drums
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28	!!Blue Tropes:
29	* ColourCodedEmotions: The album cover is blue, as is the title and title track. Coltrane is shown contemplating, suggesting he's feeling blue.
30	* ContinuityNod: "Locomotion" makes the reader think of a locomotive, continuing the train imagery.
31	* CoolTrain: One way to describe "Blue Train".
32	* CoverVersion: "I'm Old Fashioned", a cover of a 1942 song by Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer.
33	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The cover is in black and white, though coloured blue.
34	* EpicRocking: Every song qualifies; the shortest song on the album is 7 minutes long.
35	* FaceOnTheCover: Coltrane's face in close-up, pondering.
36	* GoodIsOldFashioned: "I'm Old-Fashioned".
37	* LazyBum: "Lazy Bird".
38	* LongestSongGoesFirst: The album opens with the 10:43 TitleTrack, the only song on the record to surpass ten minutes.
39	* PunBasedTitle:
40	** The album title is a pun on his own last name. Coltrane was nicknamed "'Trane" by some of his colleagues.
41	** "La'''z'''y Bird'"; a pun on the Tadd Dameron track "La'''d'''y Bird"
42	* RecordProducer: Alfred Lion.
43	* TitleTrack: "Blue Train".
44	* TrainSong: "Blue Train".

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