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Olé Coltrane by  ReleasedFirst week of November 1961RecordedMay 25, 1961Studio, Length36:50 original LP
45:50 CD reissue
SD 1373 chronology
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Olé Coltrane is the ninth album by jazz musician , released in 1961 on , catalogue SD 1373. The album was recorded at  in New York, and was the last of Coltrane's Atlantic albums to be made under his own supervision.

Background

Two days prior to the recording of Olé Coltrane, Coltrane had made , his inaugural recording session for his new label, , at the new  in . With one further album due his old label Atlantic, he brought in his working quintet along with two participants in the Africa/Brass sessions,  and . Owing to his concurrent contract with ,  was listed on the credits under the pseudonym George Lane.

Coltrane's interest in the  evident in "Olé", may have been spurred by his ex-employer   from the previous year. The structure and melody of the  vamp "Olé" was borrowed from the Spanish folk song  (maybe better known as  from the Spanish Civil War (also known as ), which was made known by ), while the  work recalled 1961's "".

The titles for the songs on side two reflect the band's continued interest in  as expressed on the May 23 Africa/Brass recordings.  commented: "On 'Dahomey Dance' [Coltrane] had a record of these guys who were from Dahomey, which is why he used two bassists. He showed that rhythm to Art Davis and Reggie Workman. So the influence was there."

On September 19, 2000,  reissued Olé Coltrane as part of its Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Gallery series. Included was a single  which had appeared on  in 1995.

Track listing Side one No.TitleWriter(s)Length1."Ol18:17 Side two No.TitleWriter(s)Length1."Dahomey Dance"John Coltrane10:532."Aisha"7:40