Dakar (album)

Dakar
Studio album by
Pepper Adams and Cecil Payne with John Coltrane
ReleasedNovember 1963 (1963-11)[1][2]
RecordedApril 20, 1957
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreHard bop
Length39:37
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7280
ProducerTeddy Charles
Pepper Adams and Cecil Payne with John Coltrane chronology
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
(1963) 		Dakar
(1963) 		Live at Birdland
(1964)

Dakar is a jazz album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was released in November 1963 through Prestige Records.[1][2]

Dakar is a reissue of one side of the 16+2⁄3 rpm LP Baritones and French Horns (released in 1958), a portion of which was recorded on April 20, 1957 (the same day Dakar was recorded), and which was a session led by Pepper Adams and Cecil Payne on which Coltrane was a sideman.

Dakar was one of several 1960s Prestige reissues featuring Coltrane to take advantage of his growing stardom in the 1960s.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[3]
AllMusic[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [6]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz[7]

In a review for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer wrote: "Although at the time these were considered 'leaderless' units, upon hearing the interaction of the participants, modern ears might desire to qualify that statement" given the nature of Coltrane's contribution.[4]

Chris May of All About Jazz commented: "It's rough and ready music, almost certainly rehearsed for the first time in the studio... but it sure is ready... A minor chapter in the Coltrane canon it may be, but Dakar is a characterful set of propulsive, pre-codification hard bop and still a delight over half a century later."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Dakar" (Teddy Charles) — 7:09
  2. "Mary's Blues" (Pepper Adams) — 6:47
  3. "Route 4" (Charles) — 6:55
  4. "Velvet Scene" (Waldron) — 4:53
  5. "Witches Pit" (Adams) — 6:42
  6. "Catwalk" (Charles) — 7:11

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Ostrow, Marty, ed. (November 2, 1963). "10 LPs & 4 Singles in Prestige Nov. Release" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. p. 6. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 9, 2021.
  2. ^ a b DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 465. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b May, Chris (October 4, 2008). "John Coltrane: Dakar". All About Jazz. Retrieved July 17, 2023.
  4. ^ a b Dakar at AllMusic
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 48. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 195.


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