Bags & Trane

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.

Bags & Trane
Studio album by
Milt Jackson and John Coltrane
ReleasedMid July 1961[1]
RecordedJanuary 15, 1959
Atlantic Studios, New York City
GenreJazz, hard bop
Length36:51 original LP
56:33 CD reissue
LabelAtlantic Records
SD 1368
ProducerNesuhi Ertegün
Milt Jackson chronology
Bags' Opus
(1959)		 Bags & Trane
(1961)		 The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bags & Trane"Milt Jackson7:25
2."Three Little Words"Harry Ruby7:29
3."The Night We Called It a Day"Matt Dennis, Tom Adair4:22

Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."Be-Bop"Dizzy Gillespie8:00
5."The Late Late Blues"Milt Jackson9:35

1988 Atlantic Records 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

2010 and 2012 European releases on Essential Jazz Classics and Efor

Since 2009, when the recordings passed into the public domain in Europe, European record labels have issued editions of the album including additional tracks from the recording sessions and additional tracks not related to the original album recording sessions. The Essential Jazz Classics and Efor labels both released the album appended with two 1957 Prestige Records trio recordings of Coltrane playing blues compositions. While these releases conform with European laws, they are unlicensed and made without access to the original master tapes of the sessions.

1. "Bags & Trane" - 07:26 2. "Three Little Words" - 07:30 3. "The Night We Called It a Day" - 04:22 4. "Be-Bop" - 08:00 5. "The Late Late Blues" - 09:35 6. "Stairway to the Stars" (Malneck, Parish, Signorelli) - 03:31 7. "Blues Legacy" - 09:04 8. "Centerpiece" (Edison, Tennyson) - 07:07 9. "Trane's Slow Blue"s (bonus track)* (John Coltrane) - 06:03 10. "Slowtrane" (bonus track)* (John Coltrane) - 07:19

  • Different personnel on bonus blues tracks (9 & 10)

John Coltrane (tenor sax)

Earl May (bass)

Art Taylor (drums).

Recorded at Hackensack, New Jersey, on 16 August 1957.

Personnel

Production personnel

References
  1. Billboard July 24, 1961
  2. Allmusic review



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