Duke Ellington & John Coltrane + 4 Bonus Tracks [New CD] Spain - Impor

INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS:PERSONNEL:JOHN COLTRANE, tenor & soprano saxDUKE ELLINGTON, pianoJIMMY GARRISON, bass (on 2, 3 & 6)AARON BELL, bass (on 1, 4, 5 & 7)ELVIN JONES, drums (on 1-3 & 6)SAM WOODYARD, drums (on 4, 5 & 7)Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, September 26, 1962.[8-11] BONUS TRACKS:(8-9): John Coltrane (ts), Donald Byrd (tp), Red Garland (p),Jamil Nasser (b), Art Taylor (d).Hackensack, New Jersey, November 15 (track 9) & December 13 (track 8), 1957.(10): John Coltrane (ts), Donald Byrd (tp), Red Garland (p),Paul Chambers (b), Louis Hayes (d).Hackensack, New Jersey, January 10, 1958.(11): John Coltrane, Paul Quinichette (ts), Frank Wess (fl, ts),Mal Waldron (p), Doug Watkins (b), Art Taylor (d).Hackensack, New Jersey, September 20, 1957.TRACKS:01 IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD02 TAKE THE COLTRANE03 BIG NICK04 STEVIE05 MY LITTLE BROWN BOOK06 ANGELICA07 THE FEELING OF JAZZ08 SOLITUDE (*)09 I GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN’T GOOD (*)10 LUSH LIFE (*)11 THINGS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE (*)TOTAL TIME: 72:07 min.By the time this album was recorded, Duke Ellington had already become a major jazz star with nearly a four-decade musical career under his belt. He had played regularly on some of the most renowned stages in the world. Coltrane, who had been a member of the Miles Davis group and the Thelonious Monk quartet (with whom he recorded a number of albums), formed his own band in 1960 and recorded a plethora of classic LPs for Atlantic. While Duke was a consecrated figure, Trane was one of the promising new voices of modern jazz. Even though the saxophonist would delve further into free jazz a few years later, he still enjoyed playing ballads and blues in 1962. The swing idiom, of course, wasn’t new to him, nor was the Ellington sound.One of Coltrane’s earliest professional jobs as a musician had been as a member of alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges’ band (during one of the short periods in which Hodges left the Ellington orchestra). Nor was Ellington new to “modern jazz”, as he was a perennially “modern” composer, who frequently expressed his admiration for Thelonious Monk (with whom he played at Newport), Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie (with whom he shared an album), and Charles Mingus (a private recording of the Ellington band playing Mingus’ “The Clown” still exists), among others.