This essential 1962 album showcases the modern jazz saxophone innovator performing alongside the colossus of jazz piano and composition. Only Coltrane could be this ‘fiercely tender,’ and there’s no better forum for his sensitive side than the music of Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, who contributes the album’s true gem, “My Little Brown Book.”

Ellington is wise enough to appreciate the nature of the session and is quite content to feed chords in service of the young masterproving the old master’s open mind and good tastemost obviously on their now-classic “In a Sentimental Mood.”

Verves Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from the original analog tapes mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QPR. The series is supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, and releases are presented in deluxe gatefold tip-on packaging.

Tracklist:

Impulse! / 1962
1. In A Sentimental Mood 412 (SIDE A)
2. Take The Coltrane 440 (SIDE A)
3. Big Nick 425 (SIDE A)
4. Stevie 420 (SIDE A)
5. My Little Brown Book 520 (SIDE B)
6. Angelica 556 (SIDE B)
7. The Feeling Of Jazz 530 (SIDE B)
Duke Ellington (piano); John Coltrane (tenor sax, soprano sax);
Aaron Bell, Jimmy Garrison (double bass); Elvin Jones, Sam Woodyard (drums)