Dakar (album)

Dakar
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1963 (1963-11)
RecordedApril 20, 1957
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreHard bop
Length39:37
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7280
ProducerTeddy 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+23 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.