Bags & Trane

Bags & Trane
Studio album by Milt Jackson and John Coltrane
Released	Mid July 1961[1]
Recorded	January 15, 1959 Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz, hard bop
Length	36:51 original LP 56:33 CD reissue
Label	Atlantic Records SD 1368
Producer	Nesuhi Ertegün
Milt Jackson chronology
Bags' Opus (1959) Bags & Trane (1959) The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson (1959)

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Bags & Trane is an album credited to jazz musicians Milt Jackson and John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1368. Taking its title from Jackson and Coltrane's nicknames, it is the only collaborative record by the pair, although only Jackson contributed original compositions. In actuality, the album belongs in Jackson's discography, as he was the session leader and still signed to Atlantic under the auspices of the Modern Jazz Quartet, and not in that of Coltrane, who had left the label for Impulse Records at the time of this album's issue. However, like Prestige Records before them, as Coltrane's fame grew after he had stopped recording for the label, Atlantic used varied unissued recordings and released them with Coltrane's name more prominently displayed.

Track listing

Side one

Side two

1988 CD (with bonus tracks)

1. "Stairway to the Stars" (Malneck, Parish, Signorelli) - 3:32
2. "The Late Late Blues" - 9:35
3. "Bags & Trane" - 7:25
4. "Three Little Words" - 7:29
5. "The Night We Called It a Day" - 4:22
6. "Be-Bop" - 8:00
7. "Blues Legacy" (Jackson) - 9:04
8. "Centerpiece" (Edison, Tennyson) - 7:06

Personnel

• Milt Jackson — vibraphone
• John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
• Hank Jones — piano
• Paul Chambers — bass
• Connie Kay — drums

Production personnel

• Nesuhi Ertegün — producer
• Tom Dowd — engineer
• Lee Friedlander — photography
• Bob Porter — compact disc reissue producer

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