Chasin' The Trane is John Coltrane's landmark improvisation first captured during his November 1961 Village Vanguard engagement in New York. The piece began as an impromptu blues with no prewritten melody, and the title is said to have been suggested by the recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. It appears on the 1962 Impulse! album Live At The Village Vanguard, on Side B, and is celebrated as a birth cry of the 1960s avant-garde in jazz. The performance features Coltrane on tenor with Elvin Jones on drums and Jimmy Garrison on bass, and notably there is no piano on the recording. In 2021 the ezz-thetics label released Chasin' The Trane Revisited, a remastered set of Vanguard material that highlights the historic quartet’s breakthrough approach.
