Home / Music / Coltrane's Africa/Brass was cut over two sessions at Van Gelder StudioMusic linernotes album music john-coltraneColtrane's Africa/Brass was cut over two sessions at Van Gelder StudioAfrica/Brass was recorded on May 23 and June 7, 1961, at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesCrescent is Coltrane at his most melodic — a calm before the free-jazz stormNaima was recorded with Miles Davis's rhythm section, not Coltrane's usual bandColtrane blew up his quartet to 21 musicians for Africa/BrassBlue Train has five tracks — four Coltrane originals and a standardBallads was John Coltrane's second Impulse! album — but the first to focus entirely on balladsExploreEli and the Thirteenth Confession came out March 3, 1968 on ColumbiaElla Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong recorded their second duet album in August 1957Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong first recorded together in 1956Ella Fitzgerald recorded her Cole Porter Song Book in early 1956Ella Fitzgerald's Duke Ellington Songbook took four months to recordPrevious Congotronics was released in 2004 on Crammed DiscsNext Coltrane blew up his quartet to 21 musicians for Africa/Brass