Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Studio album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Released	January 1963
Recorded	September 26, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
Genre	Jazz
Length	34:42
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
John Coltrane chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
DownBeat	^[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[6]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[7]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[5]

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]

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.	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 saxophone (all but track 3) and soprano saxophone (track 3)
Jimmy Garrison – bass (tracks 2, 3, and 6)
Aaron Bell – bass (tracks 1, 4, 5 and 7)
Elvin Jones – drums (tracks 1–3 and 6)
Sam Woodyard – drums (tracks 4, 5 and 7)

Charts

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

References

^ ^a ^b 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 2 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "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 3 May 2020.
^ AllMusic review
^ Milkowski, Bill (June 2013). "Money Jungle: 50 Years After the Summit" (pdf). Down Beat. p. 34. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ "Duke Ellington: 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane'". NPR. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
^ "John Coltrane". WARR. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
^ Excerpt from the CD booklet
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved March 18, 2022.

[ColtraneReference-1] 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 2 January 2020.

[CBJan63-2] "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 3 May 2020.

[3] AllMusic review

[DBJune2013-4] Milkowski, Bill (June 2013). "Money Jungle: 50 Years After the Summit" (pdf). Down Beat. p. 34. Retrieved 7 June 2017.

[RSJRG-5] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[6] Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

[Penguin-7] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[8] "Duke Ellington: 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane'". NPR. Retrieved 2010-05-20.

[9] "John Coltrane". WARR. Retrieved 2010-05-20.

[10] Excerpt from the CD booklet

[ac_Germany4_Duke_Ellington_&_John_Coltrane-11] "Offiziellecharts.de – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved March 18, 2022.

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