Straight Street is a hard bop tune written by John Coltrane and heard on his 1957 Prestige album Coltrane. It runs 6 minutes and 21 seconds and appears on side two of the LP, which was recorded on May 31, 1957 at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and released in October of that year. The album marks Coltrane’s first session as a leader after leaving Miles Davis, with a lineup that includes Johnnie Splawn and Sahib Shihab on some tracks and Mal Waldron on piano for side two, alongside Paul Chambers on bass and Albert Heath on drums. Coltrane was produced by Bob Weinstock and the record is a landmark in the hard bop canon, sometimes reissued under the title The First Trane!.
