Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

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Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1963 (1963-01) [1] [2]
RecordedSeptember 26, 1962
Studio Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
Genre Jazz
Length34:42
Label Impulse!
Producer Bob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
Money Jungle
(1963)
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
(1963)
Afro-Bossa
(1963)
John Coltrane chronology
Standard Coltrane
(1962)
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
(1963)
Ballads
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. It was released in January 1963 through Impulse! Records. [1] [2]

Contents

It was one of Ellington's many collaborations in the early 1960s with musicians such as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus, and placed him with a quartet (in this case, saxophone, piano, bass, and drums), rather than a big band. [8] The quartet was filled out by the bassist and drummer from either of their bands. The album featured Ellington standards (e.g., "In a Sentimental Mood"), new Ellington compositions, and a new Coltrane composition ("Big Nick"). [9]

Coltrane said:

I was really honored to have the opportunity of working with Duke. It was a wonderful experience. He has set standards I haven't caught up with yet. I would have liked to have worked over all those numbers again, but then I guess the performances wouldn't have had the same spontaneity. And they mightn't have been any better! [10]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."In a Sentimental Mood"4:14
2."Take the Coltrane"Ellington4:42
3."Big Nick" John Coltrane 4:30
4."Stevie"Ellington4:22
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."My Little Brown Book" Billy Strayhorn 5:20
2."Angelica"Ellington6:00
3."The Feeling of Jazz"5:34

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Chart (2022)Peak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [11] 31

References

  1. 1 2 DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 655. ISBN   9780415634632 . Retrieved January 2, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "13 ABC, 7 Impulse LPs Bow At N.Y. Distrib Meet" (PDF). Cash Box . New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. January 5, 1963. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  3. AllMusic review
  4. Milkowski, Bill (June 2013). "Money Jungle: 50 Years After the Summit" (pdf). Down Beat. p. 34. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  5. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  6. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 436. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  8. "Duke Ellington: 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane'". NPR. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
  9. "John Coltrane". WARR. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
  10. Excerpt from the CD booklet
  11. "Offiziellecharts.de – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved March 18, 2022.