Dakar (album)

Dakar
Studio album by
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+23 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.

  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.