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Africa/Brass
''Africa/Brass'' is the eighth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Impulse! Records, catalogue A-6. The sixth release for the fledgling label and Coltrane's first for Impulse!, it features Coltrane's working quartet augmented by a larger ensemble to bring the total number of participating musicians to 21. Its big band sound, with the unusual instrumentation of French horns and euphonium, presented music very different from anything that had been associated with Coltrane to date.
==Background==
In 1961, Coltrane came into his own as a front-rank force in jazz, his influence growing from years of live performances with Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and leading his own groups, and from the impact of the albums ''Giant Steps'' and ''My Favorite Things''.〔Lewis Porter. ''John Coltrane: His Life and Music''. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. ISBN 0-472-10161-7, pp. 191.〕
Impulse Records executive Creed Taylor bought out Coltrane's contract with Atlantic Records, making Coltrane the first artist to be signed to the new company's roster.〔Ben Ratliff. ''Coltrane: The Story of A Sound''. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. ISBN 978-0-374-12606-3, p. 66.〕 It was the best contract a jazz musician had ever received after Davis with Columbia, one year followed by two-year options for two albums per year with a $10,000 advance against royalties the first year rising to a $20,000 advance for the second and third years.〔Porter, p. 190.〕 Backed by the resources of ABC Records and set up to be an instant major player in the jazz market, Impulse! offered him greater scope. Coltrane would remain with Impulse! the rest of his life, and to inaugurate his move to the new label he planned a large-group recording.
Coltrane had not been in a recording studio as a leader since the October 1960 sessions for ''My Favorite Things'', although on March 20 and 21, 1961, he had made a last recorded contribution for Davis, guesting on two tracks for ''Someday My Prince Will Come''.〔 Earlier in 1961, Coltrane had invited multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy to join his band, making it a quintet.〔Porter, p. 192.〕 Around the same time, bassist Steve Davis departed, replaced by Reggie Workman, at times Coltrane pairing him with a second bassist, Art Davis.〔Porter, p. 198.〕 With this group in tow, on May 23 Coltrane entered the new Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey for the first time; Rudy Van Gelder had been the sound engineer for most of his earlier sessions with Prestige Records.〔Ratliff, pp. 66-7.〕 Coltrane would make the bulk of his recordings at the Van Gelder studio for the remainder of his career.
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