Duke Ellington & John Coltrane: Mastercut Edition #001 – 010

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An iconic jazz album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane released in January 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. The quartet was filled out by the bassist and drummer from either of their bands. Coltrane said about this album: “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.”

MUSICIANS

• Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane
• Piano: Duke Ellington
• Drums: Elvin Jones (Take The Coltrane)
• Drums: Sam Woodyard (My Little Brown Book, Stevie, The Feeling Of Jazz)
• Double Base: Aaron Bell (In A Sentimental Mood, My Little Brown Book, Stevie, The Feeling Of Jazz)
• Double Bass: Jimmy Garrison (Angelica, Big Nick, Take The Coltrane)
 
SIDE A 

1. In A Sentimental Mood
2. Take The Coltrane
3. Big Nick
4. Stevie

SIDE B 

1. My Little Brown Book
2. Angelica
3. The Feeling Of Jazz
 
RECORDED TO TAPE

• Date of Recording: September 26, 1962
• Location: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 
• Original tape numbers: AS-30 I / AS-30 II
• Recording Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
• Director of Engineering: Rudy Van Gelder
• Producer: Bob Thiele

BOOKLET CONTENT LIST

• A Minolta EP415Z copy of the recording information.
• A cyanotype based on a photograph by Bob Ghiraldini.
• Polaroid of microscopic view of the real groove, from Side A, Track 2: “Take The Coltrane“.
• A risograph after an original photo of the Supersense Livingroom studio. Photographer: Ákos Burg, 2021.
• How To Caress, by Florian Doc Kaps. An info sheet about the Supersense Master Records and how to care for them.
• Project Mastercut, by Florian Doc Kaps. An introduction to the Mastercut editions.

About the Mastercut

In the conventional record production process, the term “Mastercut” refers to a template disc from which the pressing stamper is derived and which is destroyed in that process. But in our editions, each and every record is the original Mastercut, cut directly into a lacquer disc. Making this premium-quality component of record production widely available for the first time!

Our Mastercut Records are cut directly from completely unedited 1:1 copies of carefully selected original tapes of carefully selected sound recordings.