Tenor Conclave

1957 studio album by John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims

Tenor Conclave

Studio album by John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims
Released	February or March 1957^[1]^[2]
Recorded	September 7, 1956 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:59
Label	Prestige PRLP 7074/PRLP 7249
Producer	Bob Weinstock

Alternative cover

1962 reissue (PRLP 7249)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic	^[3]

Tenor Conclave is a studio album by John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, and Zoot Sims. It was recorded in 1956 and issued in early 1957 by Prestige Records.^[1]^[2]

Prestige re-released it in 1962 with a different cover more prominently displaying Coltrane's name. This reissue of the album was given the catalogue number PRLP 7249.

Track listing

"Tenor Conclave" (Mobley) — 11:05
"Just You, Just Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) — 9:29
"Bob's Boys" (Hank Mobley) — 8:26
"How Deep Is the Ocean" (Irving Berlin) — 15:04

Personnel

Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Zoot Sims — tenor saxophone
Red Garland — piano
Paul Chambers — bass
Art Taylor — drums

References

^ ^a ^b DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 436. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "March Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 9 March 1957. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
^ Tenor Conclave at AllMusic

John Coltrane

Discography

Prestige
albums

Mating Call (with Tadd Dameron)
Tenor Conclave
Coltrane
Interplay
Wheelin' & Dealin'
John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio
Soultrane
Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
The Cats (with Tommy Flanagan and Kenny Burrell)
Lush Life
Settin' the Pace
Standard Coltrane
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
Stardust
Dakar
The Believer
Black Pearls
Bahia
The Last Trane
Two Tenors

Blue Note
albums

Blue Train
Coltrane Time

Atlantic
albums

Giant Steps
Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson)
Coltrane Jazz
My Favorite Things
Olé Coltrane
Coltrane Plays the Blues
Coltrane's Sound
The Avant-Garde

Impulse!
albums

Africa/Brass
Coltrane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Ballads
Impressions
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Crescent
A Love Supreme
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
Ascension
Meditations
Kulu Sé Mama
Expression
Om
Cosmic Music (with Alice Coltrane)
Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things
Transition
Sun Ship
Infinity
Interstellar Space
The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2
First Meditations
Dear Old Stockholm
Stellar Regions
Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
Blue World

With
Miles Davis

Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
'Round About Midnight
Cookin'
Relaxin'
Milestones
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Kind of Blue
Jazz Track
Workin'
Steamin'
Someday My Prince Will Come
Miles & Monk at Newport
Basic Miles
At Newport 1958
Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I
1958 Miles
Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock Alley

With
Thelonious Monk

Live albums

"Live" at the Village Vanguard
Live at Birdland
New Thing at Newport
Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
Live in Seattle
Live in Japan
Afro Blue Impressions
The Paris Concert
The European Tour
Live Trane: The European Tours
Bye Bye Blackbird
Newport '63
The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up
Offering: Live at Temple University
A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy

Compilations

Alternate Takes
The Best of John Coltrane
The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Recordings
Coltrane for Lovers
The Coltrane Legacy
The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane
The Prestige Recordings
Countdown: The Savoy Sessions
Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions
Feelin' Good
Gold Coast
The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
High Step
The Major Works of John Coltrane
Jupiter Variation
Ken Burns Jazz: John Coltrane
The Last Giant: Anthology
Living Space
To the Beat of a Different Drum
Trane's Blues
Trane's Modes

Compositions

"26-2"
"Alabama"
"Blue Train"
"Central Park West"
"Countdown"
"Equinox"
"Giant Steps"
"Impressions"
"Lazy Bird"
"Moment's Notice"
"Mr. P.C."
"Naima"
"Ogunde"

Documentaries

The Church of Saint Coltrane
The World According to John Coltrane
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

List of sessions
Coltrane changes
Sheets of sound
Alice Coltrane (wife)
Ravi Coltrane (son)
Philadelphia house
Dix Hills home
5893 Coltrane asteroid
John W. Coltrane Cultural Society
Tribute albums
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

v t e Hank Mobley
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release, except for the compilation section
As leader or co-leader	Newark 1953 (1953 [2012]) Hank Mobley Quartet (1955) The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley (1956) Mobley's Message (Prestige, 1956) Mobley's 2nd Message (Prestige, 1956) Jazz Message No. 2 (Savoy, 1956) Hank Mobley Sextet (1956) Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957) Hank Mobley Quintet (1957) Hank (1957) Hank Mobley (1957) Curtain Call (1957) Poppin' (1957) Peckin' Time (1958) Monday Night at Birdland (1958) Another Monday Night at Birdland (1959) Soul Station (1960) Roll Call (1960) Workout (1961) Another Workout (1961) No Room for Squares (1963) Straight No Filter (1963–65) The Turnaround! (1964) Dippin' (1965) A Caddy for Daddy (1965) A Slice of the Top (1966) Far Away Lands (1967) Third Season (1967) Hi Voltage (1967) Reach Out! (1968) The Flip (1969) Thinking of Home (1970) Breakthrough! (1972)
With others	At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1955) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1955) The Jazz Messengers (Art Blakey, 1956) Originally (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1956 [1982]) At the Jazz Corner of the World (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1959) All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956) K.B. Blues (1957 [1979]) Byrd's Eye View (Donald Byrd, 1955) Byrd in Flight (Donald Byrd, 1960) A New Perspective (1963) Mustang! (Donald Byrd, 1966) Blackjack (Donald Byrd, 1967) Dial "S" for Sonny (Sonny Clark, 1957) My Conception (Sonny Clark, 1957) Someday My Prince Will Come (Miles Davis, 1961) In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (Miles Davis, 1961) Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (1961) Afro-Cuban (Kenny Dorham, 1955) Whistle Stop (Kenny Dorham, 1961) This Is New (Kenny Drew, 1957) Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960) Farmer's Market (Art Farmer, 1956) The Opener (Curtis Fuller, 1957) Sliding Easy (Curtis Fuller, 1959) Afro (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954) Dizzy and Strings (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954) Jazz Recital (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954–55) I Want to Hold Your Hand (Grant Green, 1965) A Blowin' Session (Johnny Griffin, 1957) My Point of View (Herbie Hancock, 1963) Informal Jazz (Elmo Hope, 1956) Goin' Up (Freddie Hubbard, 1960) Blue Spirits (Freddie Hubbard, 1965) The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (1955) Together! (Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones, 1961) Midnight Walk (Elvin Jones, 1966) I Wanna Talk About You (Tete Montoliu, 1980) Introducing Lee Morgan (1956) Lee Morgan Sextet (1956) Cornbread (Lee Morgan, 1965) Charisma (1966) The Rajah (1966) Tenor Conclave (Prestige All Stars, 1957) Star Bright (Dizzy Reece, 1959) The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956) Good Move! (Freddie Roach 1963) The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953) Max Roach + 4 (1956) The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957) MAX (Max Roach, 1958) Yasmina, a Black Woman (Archie Shepp, 1969) Poem for Malcolm (Archie Shepp, 1969) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1954–55) Silver's Blue (Horace Silver, 1956) 6 Pieces of Silver (Horace Silver, 1956–58) The Stylings of Silver (Horace Silver, 1957) A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957) A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (1957) Julius Watkins Sextet (1955)
Compilations	The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (1998) The Feelin's Good (2013)
Related articles	Discography

v t e Zoot Sims
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader	The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52) Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956) Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Zoot! (1956) Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957) Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959) Down Home (1960) Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964) Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965) Waiting Game (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967) Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974) Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975) Soprano Sax (1976) Hawthorne Nights (1976) If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles, 1977) For Lady Day (1978) Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles, 1979) The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson, 1979) Just Friends (and Harry Edison, 1980) Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
Recordings with Al Cohn	From A to...Z (1956) The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956) Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957) Al and Zoot (1957) Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959) SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959) Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960) You 'n' Me (1960) Either Way (1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962) Body and Soul (1973) Motoring Along (1974)
With Quincy Jones	This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956) The Birth of a Band! (1959) Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962) Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)
With Gerry Mulligan	California Concerts (1954) Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955) Mainstream of Jazz (1956) The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957) The Concert Jazz Band (1960) Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
With others	Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968) Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956) Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973) Louis Bellson Quintet (1954) The Genius of Ray Charles (1959) Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961) Chris Connor (1956) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960) Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962) The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959) South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967) The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956) Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975) Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966) Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959) Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973) Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962) Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966) The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966) Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967) All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962) Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974) Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954) Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963) Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952) Phoebe Snow (1974) Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965) Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958) The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)

v t e Al Cohn
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Al Cohn's Tones (1950 & 1953) Mr. Music (1954) The Natural Seven (1955) That Old Feeling (1955) Four Brass One Tenor (1955) The Brothers! (with Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca, 1955) From A to...Z (with Zoot Sims, 1956) The Sax Section (1956) Cohn on the Saxophone (1956) Tenor Conclave (with John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, and Zoot Sims, 1956) The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer (1956) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (with Herbie Steward, Zoot Sims, and Serge Chaloff, 1957) Al and Zoot (with Zoot Sims, 1957) You 'n' Me (with Zoot Sims, 1960) Son of Drum Suite (1960) Either Way (with Zoot Sims, 1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (1962) Body and Soul (with Zoot Sims, 1973) Motoring Along (with Zoot Sims, 1974) Play It Now (1975) True Blue (with Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Dexter Gordon, 1976) Al Cohn's America (1976) Heavy Love (with Jimmy Rowles, 1977) No Problem (1979)
Live albums	Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (with Zoot Sims and Phil Woods, 1959) Xanadu in Africa (with Dolo Coker, Leroy Vinnegar, and Frank Butler, 1980) Night Flight to Dakar (with Billy Mitchell, Dolo Coker, Leroy Vinnegar and Frank Butler, 1980)