There are many riches and it is important to at least listen to understand his music in context with the overall journey of how Jazz - and, frankly, popular music in general - got to where we are today. If you are new to Duke Ellington’s music, this might be a good gateway for you to go back to appreciate all he has contributed to the form. He’s not quite restrained, but clearly he is trying to fit the mood of the music. So this is a genuinely interesting session, finding Coltrane playing at his tender and most sympathetic best even while Duke gives him lots of room to flow. 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. He has set standards I haven’t caught up with yet. “I was really honored to have the opportunity of working with Duke. Trane lets loose a bit on these sessions but he’s careful to not steal the show.Ĭoltrane even has a quote in the album liner underscoring his respect for Duke and his music: The title - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - does place Duke in foreground, if you will, not the other way around. Typically I have filed this album under C for Coltrane but am considering moving it over into Duke’s sizable section of my collection. I have to admit I haven’t listened to this album in a while and in the interim years I’ve gone much deeper in my appreciation for Duke’s later years. ![]() Just a year prior he’d released his Piano In The Foreground album, recorded with a trio featuring some of the same players on this Coltrane session (Sam Woodyard, Aaron Bell). In preparing for this review, I gave myself a refresher listen to my original Mono Impulse Records pressing of the 1963 release that paired one of the founding fathers of Jazz with one of the shining rising stars of the day, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane.įor those not in the know, it is important to recognize that in 1962 when this was recorded, Duke was entering a very different phase of his career at this point, starting to play with smaller bands and allowing his own playing to take a bit of center stage. ![]() Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsApp
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