Blue Train
by John Coltrane

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Blue Train by John Coltrane
Year: 1958
Overall rank: 303rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
84/100 (from 670 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Best album of 1958 (1st)
Award Top 10 albums of of the 1950s (4th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (303rd)

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John Coltrane bestography

Blue Train is ranked 2nd best out of 90 albums by John Coltrane on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by John Coltrane is A Love Supreme which is ranked number 76 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,752.

John Coltrane album bestography « Higher ranked (76th)
A Love Supreme This album (303rd)
Blue Train Lower ranked (469th) »
Giant Steps

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Blue Train track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Blue Train
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Moment's Notice
Average Rating: 83 (122 votes)Comments: View 0
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Locomotion
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I'm Old Fashioned
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Lazy Bird
Average Rating: 82 (120 votes)Comments: View 0

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Blue Train rankings

Blue Train rankings summary
Overall rank: 303rd | 1950s rank: 4th | 1958 rank: 1st  Overall chart history
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Blue Train ratings

Average Rating: 
84/100 (from 670 votes)
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90/100
 !		08/29/2026 20:33 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,57376/100
 
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 !		08/22/2026 21:15 Adhura  Ratings distribution  1,71977/100
 
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 !		08/02/2026 12:48 Olli  Ratings distribution  7,91762/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.0/100, a mean average of 83.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.


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From BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements
“The overall chart is ever changing, and it's difficult to keep up with the detail of what's happening. So, for those people who are interested, this post attempts to show the latest movements - biggest climbers, movers, new entries and leavers for the top 100, 250, 500 & 1000 over the past month,…”
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85/100
From 04/24/2022 12:48 | #284568
I really like first track, then it isn't as good, but still strong jazz record
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From 04/10/2022 10:13 | #283976
This will probably grow on me and become one of my favourite jazz records alongside Giant Steps, A Love Supreme and Mingus Ah Uhm.
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From 01/08/2022 15:21 | #278853
Not a big Jazz fan or have knowledge in this genre - but got directed to this and a few others that I am enjoying.
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From 12/14/2021 02:12 | #277467 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
My favorite Coltrane and one of my top five jazz albums. Lee Morgan is my favorite trumpet player, so the two of them together is great, but this is also the moment when John Coltrane begins to blossom. He's just on the edge of the innovations of Giant Steps, he had been studying, and his songwriting and arranging on the themes are great, with beautiful harmonies for the three horns. He has kicked the junk, his path is visible directly in front of him, and the whole album is a soaring, swinging celebration of what is to come. Glorious.
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From 11/10/2021 19:46 | #276117
Excellent, and not even Coltrane's best stuff!
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1. Blue Train by John Coltrane
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