After leaving the Davis band, Coltrane, for his first regular bookings at New York's Jazz Gallery in the summer of 1960, assembled the first version of the John Coltrane Quartet. The lineup settled by autumn with McCoy Tyner on piano, Steve Davis on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. Sessions the week before Halloween at Atlantic Studios yielded the track "Village Blues" for "Coltrane Jazz" and the entirety of this album along with the tracks that Atlantic later assembled into "Coltrane Plays the Blues" (1962) and "Coltrane's Sound" (1964).