And still they come… Jazz Images, again. Coltrane once more. Another pairing of classic albums served up with a further LP and a half's-worth of material added to bulk up the playing time. Oh, and for some reason you get Trane and Sonny Rollins' epic blues face-off on ‘Tenor Madness’ thrown in for good measure. Nobody needs to be told that both sets heard on this two-fer are milestones for its leader; Blue Train brims with youthful spirit (Lee Morgan and Curtis Fuller were both then in their teens!) and compositions that still challenge, including the perpetually modulating ‘Moments Notice’. It also has one of Trane's finest ever ballad performances in ‘I'm Old Fashioned’, his tone at its most spine-tingling. Released in 1960, Giant Steps was the manifesto statement that helped launch the saxophonist's band-leading career. Indeed, besides the gauntlet slamming title-track, it has the premier versions of many compositions that he'd use for the ensuing four or so years; ‘Mr. P.C.', ‘Naima’, ‘Cousin Mary’, and so on. A taster of the band that would soon be called the ‘classic’ quartet comes on three tracks taped for Roulette in late 1960 (Billy Higgins on drums, soon to be spelled by Elvin Jones), while Olé Coltrane, his last album for Atlantic taped as he was in the process of moving onto the Impulse! label, gives a taster of the modal/ethnic grooves he was to explore in his next phase, the line-up with McCoy and Elvin augmented by Freddie Hubbard and Eric Dolphy. Everything here is indispensable modern jazz, which will repay repeated listening forever more, whether on this questionable reissue or in its original editions.