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 two, 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 first issue. However, like Prestige Records, as Coltrane's profile grew after he had stopped recording for the label, Atlantic released them with Coltrane's name more prominently displayed.

Reception

The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer blamed the rhythm section for Jackson and Coltrane not gelling, and concluded: "the general impression is one of a session that could have been better, though it is still above the just-good mark".

Track listing

Side one
Side two
1988 Atlantic Records CD
  1. "Stairway to the Stars" - 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" - 9:04
  8. "Centerpiece" - 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" - 7:26
  2. "Three Little Words" - 7:30
  3. "The Night We Called It a Day" - 4:22
  4. "Be-Bop" - 8:00
  5. "The Late Late Blues" - 9:35
  6. "Stairway to the Stars" - 3:31
  7. "Blues Legacy" - 9:04
  8. "Centerpiece" - 7:07
  9. "Trane's Slow Blues" - 6:03
  10. "Slowtrane" - 7:19
Different personnel on bonus tracks :
Recorded at Hackensack, New Jersey, on 16 August 1957.

Personnel

Production personnel