Year: 1958
Record label: Blue Note Records
Worth Today: $1800.00*

RIAA certified Blue Train as a Gold record for a good reason. This John Coltrane studio album was released in January of 1958 to epic acclaim. The record label behind Blue Train was Blue Note Records, and Blue Train would be the only Coltrane album recorded with Blue Note with Coltrane as the leader of the session.

Recording took place at the Van Gelder Studio. Almost all of the tracks were written by Coltrane himself, and the musician was in the middle of his residency at Five Spot (a New York City jazz club) with Thelonious Monk. Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jonas are the others credited on this classic hard bop album.