Bags & Trane

Bags & Trane
Studio album by
ReleasedMid July 1961
RecordedJanuary 15, 1959
StudioAtlantic Studios, New York City
GenreJazz, hard bop
Length36:51 original LP
56:33 CD reissue
LabelAtlantic Records
SD 1368
ProducerNesuhi Ertegün
Milt Jackson chronology
Soul Meeting
(1961)
Bags & Trane
(1961)
The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra
(1961)
John Coltrane chronology
My Favorite Things
(1961)
Bags & Trane
(1961)
Africa/Brass
(1961)
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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 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.