Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

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]

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)

Professional ratings

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

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