John Coltrane – Ol Coltrane

Description

Ol Coltrane is the ninth album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records. The album was recorded at A&R Studios in New York, and was the last of Coltrane’s Atlantic albums to be made under his own supervision. Two days prior to the recording of Ol Coltrane, Coltrane had made his inaugural recording session for his new label, Impulse! Records, at the new Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. With one further album due his old label Atlantic, he brought in his working quintet along with two participants in the Africa/Brass sessions, Art Davis and Freddie Hubbard. Owing to his concurrent contract with Prestige Records, Eric Dolphy was listed on the credits under the pseudonym George Lane. Coltrane’s interest in the music of Spain evident in Ol, may have been spurred by his ex-employer Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain from the previous year. The structure and melody of the modal jazz vamp Ol was borrowed from the Spanish folk song El Vito while the soprano saxophone work recalled 1961’s “My Favorite Things”. The titles for the songs on side two reflect the band’s continued interest in African forms as expressed on the May 23 Africa/Brass recordings.

Tracklist

Ol
Dahomey Dance
Aisha