Stereo Drive

Stereo Drive is an album by jazz musician Cecil Taylor featuring John Coltrane, released in 1959 on United Artists Records, catalogue UAS 5014. The mono edition was issued as UAL 4014 with the title Hard Driving Jazz credited to The Cecil Taylor Quintet, and later reissued under Coltrane's name in 1962 as Coltrane Time (UAJS 15001). Compact disc reissues appeared on the Blue Note Records label credited to Coltrane. It is the only known recording featuring both Coltrane and Taylor.

Taylor has described how the record company determined the choice of musicians on the session: "I said 'Coltrane okay, but I want to use all the musicians that I want.' I wanted to use Ted Curson, who's a much more contemporary trumpet player than the trumpet player I ended up with, Kenny Dorham." Relations between Taylor, who favoured a very avant-garde approach, and Dorham, who verbally disapproved of Taylor's "way-out" tendencies, were strained.

Track listing
 "Shifting Down" (Dorham) — 10:43
 "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Lewis) — 6:17
 "Like Someone in Love" (Van Heusen, Burke) — 8:13
 "Double Clutching" (Israels) — 8:18

Personnel
 Cecil Taylor — piano
 Kenny Dorham — trumpet
 John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
 Chuck Israels — bass
 Louis Hayes — drums

References

Category:1959 albums
Category:John Coltrane albums
Category:Cecil Taylor albums
Category:Albums produced by Tom Wilson (record producer)
Category:United Artists Records albums
Category:Solid State Records (jazz label) albums
Category:Blue Note Records albums