Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

{{Infobox album

| name = Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

| type = studio

| artist = Duke Ellington and John Coltrane

| cover = Duke Ellington & John Coltrane.jpg

| released = {{Start date|1963|1}}

| recorded = September 26, 1962

| studio = Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)

| genre = Jazz

| length = 34:42

| label = Impulse!

| producer = Bob Thiele

| chronology = Duke Ellington

| prev_title = Money Jungle

| prev_year = 1963

| next_title = Afro-Bossa

| next_year = 1963

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = John Coltrane

| type = studio

| prev_title = Standard Coltrane

| prev_year = 1962

| title = Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

| year = 1963

| next_title = Ballads

| next_year = 1963

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r138151|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]

| rev2 = DownBeat

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last1=Milkowski|first1=Bill|title=Money Jungle: 50 Years After the Summit|url=http://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2013/DB201306/_art/DB201306.pdf|website=Down Beat|access-date=7 June 2017|page=34|format=pdf|date=June 2013}}

| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev5score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book|editor-last=Swenson|editor-first=J.| year = 1985| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone| location = USA| isbn = 0-394-72643-X| pages = 69}}

|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=436}}

}}

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. It was released in January 1963 through Impulse! Records.{{cite book |last=DeVito |first=Chris |title=The John Coltrane Reference |last2=Fujioka |first2=Yasuhiro |last3=Schmaler |first3=Wolf |last4=Wild |first4=David |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |url=https://www.routledge.com/The-John-Coltrane-Reference/Porter-DeVito-Wild-Fujioka-Schmaler/p/book/9780415634632 |access-date=2 January 2020 |isbn=9780415634632 |editor-last=Porter |editor-first=Lewis |editor-link=Lewis Porter |location=New York/Abingdon |page=655}}{{cite news |title=13 ABC, 7 Impulse LPs Bow At N.Y. Distrib Meet |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1963/CB-1963-01-05-OCR-Page-0006.pdf|access-date=3 May 2020|location=New York|publisher=The Cash Box Publishing Co.|work=Cash Box|date=January 5, 1963}}

It was one of Ellington's many collaborations in the early 1960s with musicians such as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus, and placed him with a quartet (in this case, saxophone, piano, bass, and drums), rather than a big band.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4555589|title=Duke Ellington: 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane'|publisher=NPR|access-date=2010-05-20}} The quartet was filled out by the bassist and drummer from either of their bands. The album featured Ellington standards (e.g., "In a Sentimental Mood"), new Ellington compositions, and a new Coltrane composition ("Big Nick").{{cite web |url=http://www.warr.org/trane.html|title=John Coltrane|publisher=WARR|access-date=2010-05-20}}

Coltrane said:

I was really honored to have the opportunity of working with Duke. It was a wonderful experience. He has set standards I haven't caught up with yet. I would have liked to have worked over all those numbers again, but then I guess the performances wouldn't have had the same spontaneity. And they mightn't have been any better!Excerpt from the CD booklet