"Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" is an album intended by the producer Bob Thiele who hears both continue the momentum of the meetings held with the Duke to revive his career but also to calm American critics who have called the music of Coltrane anti-jazz. With the exception of "Big Nick", the directory is completely Ellington, Duke has even specially composed "Take The Coltrane). It is indeed both an album Ellington and Coltrane, each having brought rhythmic (Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones Coltrane) (Jim Lamb and Sam Woodyard Ellington) who take turns in this impromptu quartet. Note the remarkable reading of the standard "In A Sentimental Mood", the saxophone swirls on "Stevie", the "slippage" controlled Trane on swingant "Take The Coltrane", the beautiful ballad ellingtonnienne "Angelica" and "Big Nick" Coltrane tribute to George Nicholas a saxophonist he has rubbed shoulders with Dizzy Gillespie A profound harmony between two visionaries of jazz. discretion and effectiveness in Ellington, lyricism with Coltrane.
