Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane recorded on September 26, 1962, and released in February 1963 on Impulse! Records.[5]

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Studio album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Released	February 1963 (1963-02)
Recorded	September 26, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:05
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
Money Jungle (1963) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1963) Afro-Bossa (1963)
John Coltrane chronology
Coltrane (1962) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1963) Ballads (1963)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Down Beat	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

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.[6] 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").[7]

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![8]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"In a Sentimental Mood"	Irving Mills Duke Ellington Manny Kurtz	4:14
2.	"Take the Coltrane"	Ellington	4:42
3.	"Big Nick"	John Coltrane	4:30
4.	"Stevie"	Ellington	4:22

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"My Little Brown Book"	Billy Strayhorn	5:20
2.	"Angelica"	Ellington	6:00
3.	"The Feeling of Jazz"	Ellington Bobby Troup George T. Simon	5:34

Personnel

• Duke Ellington - Piano
• John Coltrane - Tenor (all but #3) and Soprano (#3) Saxophone
• Jimmy Garrison - Bass (#2, #3, #6)
• Aaron Bell - Bass (#1, #4, #5, #7)
• Elvin Jones - Drums (#1-3, #6)
• Sam Woodyard - Drums (#4, #5, #7)

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Milkowski, Bill (June 2013). "Money Jungle: 50 Years After the Summit" (pdf). Down Beat. p. 34. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
5. Billboard, February 9, 1963, p. 28.
6. "Duke Ellington: 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane'". NPR. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
7. "John Coltrane". WARR. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
8. Excerpt from the CD booklet