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The Cats (album)

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Released
  
End of August 1959

The Cats (1957)
  
Lonely Town (1959)

Producer
  
Bob Weinstock

Genres
  
Jazz, Hard bop

Recorded
  
April 18, 1957

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
New Jazz Records

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Studio
  
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ

Artists
  
John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Idrees Sulieman

Similar
  
Tommy Flanagan albums, Jazz albums

The Cats is an album credited to jazz musicians Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, and Idrees Sulieman, released in 1959 on New Jazz, a subsidiary label of Prestige Records. It was issued after Coltrane had already ceased recording for the label.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Tommy Flanagan except where noted.

  1. "Minor Mishap" – 7:26
  2. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George and Ira Gershwin) – 5:58
  3. "Eclypso" – 7:57
  4. "Solacium" – 9:10
  5. "Tommy's Tune" – 11:58

Personnel

  • Idrees Sulieman – trumpet
  • John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
  • Tommy Flanagan – piano
  • Kenny Burrell – guitar
  • Doug Watkins – bass
  • Louis Hayes – drums
  • On "How Long Has This Been Going On" Sulieman, Coltrane and Burrell are pausing.

    Songs

    1Minor Mishap7:24
    2How Long Has This Been Going On?5:57
    3Eclypso7:55

    References

    The Cats (album) Wikipedia