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Dakar
Studio album by Pepper Adams and Cecil Payne with John Coltrane
Released	November 1963 (1963-11)
Recorded	April 20, 1957 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre	Hard bop
Length	39:37
Label	Prestige PRLP 7280
Producer	Teddy Charles
Pepper Adams and Cecil Payne with John Coltrane chronology
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963) Dakar (1963) Live at Birdland (1964)

Dakar is a jazz album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was released in November 1963 through Prestige Records.

Dakar is a reissue of one side of the 16+2⁄3 rpm LP Baritones and French Horns (released in 1958), a portion of which was recorded on April 20, 1957 (the same day Dakar was recorded), and which was a session led by Pepper Adams and Cecil Payne on which Coltrane was a sideman.

Dakar was one of several 1960s Prestige reissues featuring Coltrane to take advantage of his growing stardom in the 1960s.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz

In a review for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer wrote: "Although at the time these were considered 'leaderless' units, upon hearing the interaction of the participants, modern ears might desire to qualify that statement" given the nature of Coltrane's contribution.

Chris May of All About Jazz commented: "It's rough and ready music, almost certainly rehearsed for the first time in the studio... but it sure is ready... A minor chapter in the Coltrane canon it may be, but Dakar is a characterful set of propulsive, pre-codification hard bop and still a delight over half a century later."

Track listing

1. "Dakar" (Teddy Charles) — 7:09
2. "Mary's Blues" (Pepper Adams) — 6:47
3. "Route 4" (Charles) — 6:55
4. "Velvet Scene" (Waldron) — 4:53
5. "Witches Pit" (Adams) — 6:42
6. "Catwalk" (Charles) — 7:11

Personnel

• John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
• Cecil Payne - baritone saxophone
• Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
• Mal Waldron - piano
• Doug Watkins - bass
• Art Taylor - drums

References

1. ^ Ostrow, Marty, ed. (November 2, 1963). "10 LPs & 4 Singles in Prestige Nov. Release" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. p. 6. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 9, 2021.
2. ^ DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 465. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
3. ^ May, Chris (October 4, 2008). "John Coltrane: Dakar". All About Jazz. Retrieved July 17, 2023.
4. ^ Dakar at AllMusic
5. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 48. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
6. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
7. Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 195.

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