The Cats (album)

The Cats
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1959 (1959-12)
RecordedApril 18, 1957
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre
LabelNew Jazz/Prestige
NJ-8217
ProducerBob Weinstock
Tommy Flanagan chronology
Overseas
(1957)
The Cats
(1959)
Lonely Town
(1959)

The Cats is a jazz album released in December 1959 on New Jazz, a subsidiary label of Prestige Records. It is credited to pianist Tommy Flanagan, saxophonist John Coltrane, guitarist Kenny Burrell, and trumpeter Idrees Sulieman. It was issued after Coltrane's Prestige contract had ended. The record was the first to feature Coltrane, Burrell, and Flanagan playing together in a small group. Eleven months later, the three recorded Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane, which was first released in April 1963 on the New Jazz label.