Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

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

ReleasedJanuary 1963 (1963-01)^[1][2]

RecordedSeptember 26, 1962

StudioVan Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)

GenreJazz

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Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Studio album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Released	January 1963 (1963-01)[1][2]
Recorded	September 26, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
Genre	Jazz
Length	34:42
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)

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AllMusic	[3]
DownBeat	[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[7]

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The album 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 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 of the session:

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]